Mallikarjun is an Indian playback singer and composer who mostly sings in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada language films. After emerging as one of the semi-finalists in the first edition of singing competition

Padutha Theeyaga Padutha Theeyaga (transl: I will sing sweetly) is an Indian Telugu language, Telugu-language Reality television Singing, singing show that is aired on ETV (Telugu), ETV Telugu, a channel of ETV Network, a part of Ramoji Group. The program seeks t ...

, he went on to become a playback singer in the

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. He is married to playback singer

Gopika Poornima Gopika Poornima is an Indian singer who mostly sings for Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada language films. She became popular with the singing competition ''Padutha Theeyaga''. Her husband Mallikarjun is also a singer and composer in Telugu Film Indus ...

. He is very well known as an energetic stage performer and ardent fan of Telugu actor

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Personal life

Mallikarjun's father is an engineer in the Andhra Pradesh Irrigation department. He originally hails from

Anakapalle Anakapalli is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Anakapalli district. The municipality was merged with the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation. It has the second largest jaggery market of the cou ...

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district. Mallikarjun was born when his father got transferred to

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, a temple town. He was named after the local god Lord Mallikarjuna of Srisailam temple. His mother is a housewife. He has started learning music at the age of 9 and got recognition by padutha teeyaga musical competition. He has one sister. He met his co-singer

and fell in love with each other and got married on 10 February 2008 in

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. They have one daughter named Samhitha. Currently they are living in

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Career

Mallikarjun made his debut as a playback singer along with

for the movie Singanna on 23 February 1997 composed by

Vandemataram Srinivas Kanneboina Srinavasa Rao Yadav, known professionally as Vandemataram Srinivas, is an Indian music director and playback singer who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has won two Filmfare Awards and six Nandi Awards. He got the prefix "Vand ...

. He has sung more than 300 songs in films and 2000 private devotional albums. He also assisted renowned music composers like Koti for 1 year and

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for 8 years. He has the prospect of singing for all the heroes in Telugu Film Industry. He made his debut as a Composer for the movie

Kathi Kantha Rao ''Kathi Kantha Rao (evadnaina madathetestadu)'' ( Telugu: కత్తి కాంతా రావు: ఎవడ్నయినా మడతెట్టేస్తాడు) is a 2010 Telugu comedy film directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana, p ...

in 2010. He is one of the core singer in the musical band "SUSWANA" along with

and

Parthu Parthasarathy Nemani, (born 24 September 1974) popularly known as Parthu, is an Indian Telugu playback singer in Tollywood with rich classical music background. Parthu has rendered more than 100 film songs and sung more than 2000 private song ...

formed in 2016 and performed in countries like

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(

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), United States (

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, Texas),

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And

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(

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).Mallikarjun regularly sings in ''Swarabhishekam'' program telecast in

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on every Sunday.

Awards

He got the

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in 2003 for the serial Sukhadukhalu (

) in the TV Section .

Concerts

Mallikarjun has done more than 200 shows across the world. He also participated in various musical concerts in the countries like United States of America, United Kingdom(England, Ireland,

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), Australia, New Zealand, Africa (South Africa,

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), (Germany), Canada,

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, Singapore, Japan,

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(

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) with legendary singers like Padmabhushan

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (4 June 1946 – 25 September 2020), also referred to as SPB or SP Balu or Balu, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer. He is wi ...

, S. P. Sailaja and others.

Performances

Music concerts for TANA (

Telugu Association of North America Telugu Association of North America (also referred to as TANA) is a non-profit organization and is one of oldest Indo-American national level organisation primarily for networking of Telugu people Telugu people ( te, తెలుగువా ...

) in 2007 and 2013 along with famous music composer

. * Music concerts for ATA ( American Telugu Association) in 2006 and 2008 along with renowned music composers

and

Devi Sri Prasad Devi Sri Prasad (; born 2 August 1979) is an Indian film composer, lyricist, singer-songwriter and performer. Popularly known by his initials DSP, he is best known for his work in Telugu-language films, and has also worked in a few Tamil films ...

. *Music concerts for NATA (North America Telugu Association) in 2014. *Music concerts for TCAGT (Telugu Cultural Association of Greater Toronto) in Canada 2014 along with prominent music composer

S. Thaman Ghantasala Sai Srinivas Thaman (born 16 November 1983), known professionally as Thaman S, earlier as S S Thaman, is an Indian music composer, professional drummer, and playback singer who predominantly works in Telugu films and Tamil films. Th ...

. *Performed at WTF (World Telugu Federation) in Singapore and

in 2002 and 2006 along with eminent music composer

R. P. Patnaik Ravindra Prasad Patnaik is an Indian music composer, singer, actor, screenwriter and film director who works in Telugu, Kannada and Tamil. He won three Filmfare Awards and three Nandi Awards. He has toured the world to perform his live shows. ...

. *Performed extensively with renowned

and

G. Anand Gedela Ananda Rao (died 6 May 2021), usually known as G. Anand or Swaramadhuri, was an Indian Telugu playback singer. His troupe 'Swara Madhuri' performed all over the world. He gave more than 6500 performances. Early life and career Anand ...

team across the world. *Performed at TAL (Telugu Association of London) in England 2017. *Performed at MATA (Mana Telugu Association) in Germany 2016. *Performed at SATC-South African Telugu Community's Musical Concert in South Africa 4 November 2018 and 8 February 2020

TV programmes

* Participated as a judge and team leader in the musical competition "Airtel Super Singer 9" conducted by

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in 2015. * Participated as a judge in the musical competitions like "STAR OF AP" and "STAR SINGER" conducted by

Gemini TV Gemini TV is an Indian Telugu language general entertainment pay television channel. It was launched on 9 February 1995 by Gemini Group, owned by A. Manohar Prasad (grandson of L. V. Prasad), in association with Sun TV Network. In 1996-97, Sun ...

and

Vissa Vissa is an Indian Telugu-language television channel part of Raj Network. It was launched on 23 June 2003. Four brothers started Raj TV in 1994. The channel telecast some non-Telugu films which are dubbed from south language Tamil. The channel ...

Personal life

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