Roshan Sebastian is a Singer, Music Producer & Mixing/Mastering Engineer who is working in the Indian Film Industry. He was awarded, The Expressive Singer, in Airtel Super Singer Junior Season 1, which premiered in February 2007 to July 2007. He was also the Runner Up In Vijay TV Airtel Super Singer Junior Season 2, which premiered on 21st June 2009 - 17th June 2010.

About Roshan Sebastian

Roshan Sebastian, son of K.D Sebastian & Mini Sebastian was born on 19 June 1997 at

Kannur Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and a municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated north of the major port city and commercial hu ...

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. His mother tongue is

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. Even though he was born in Kerala, he has spent most of his time in

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—first in

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and now in

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. His singing earned him an award for the ' Best Expressive Singer' in

Airtel Super Singer Junior Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as (d/b/a) Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. Currently, ...

Season 1 in 2007.. He completed his graduation from

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in the year 2018. Apart from academics, he has been learning Hindusthani Vocals from Shri.Kuldeep Sagar and have completed Senior Diploma and was also learning piano from Shri.Sadanandam, the guitarist of Music Director

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. After his graduation, he has completed his course in

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from Shri.Hentry Kuruvila, who is one of the programmers of

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. Right now he is working as a music programmer in the film industry.

Career

He entered Airtel

Super Singer Junior ''Super Singer Junior'' – ''Ithu Thamizhagathin Chellakuralukkana Thedal (the search for the sweet voice of Tamil Nadu)'' – is a Reality television, reality TV show since 2007 hosted by Vijay TV, a popular Tamil channel of the Star Network, ...

Season 1 in the year, 2007, and became the semi-finalist and was awarded "Best Expressive Singer". Followed by that in the year, 2008, he participated in Gandharva Sangeetham in

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and became the first runner up and received "Yesudas Award" from the legend Dr. K. J. Yesudas. In the year, 2009, he again participated in

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Airtel Super Singer Junior (season 2) and was among the top 53 finalists. He is also nicknamed as "Paadum Ilaya Nila" — the senior paadum nila being none other than legendary

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. In June 2021, he lend his vocals for a Telugu music video "Daare Leda" , composed by Vjai Bulganin, written by KK and featuring

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and Roopa Koduvayur. It is produced by Nani. The music video was released in Tamil as "Vaanam Thoandraadhoa".

Achievements

* Roshan won second place in Kairali Gandharva Sangeetham competition and received "Yesudas Award" from the legend Dr. K. J. Yesudas. * In the semi-finals of Airtel Super Singer Junior 1, Roshan was awarded "Best Expressive Singer". * Roshan was among the top 3 finalists on Airtel Super Singer Junior 2 * He is also nicknamed as "Paadum Ilaya Nila"—the senior paadum nila being none other than legendary SP Balasubramaniam.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sebastian, Roshan 1997 births Living people Indian male singers Indian child singers Singers from Kannur