Uday Ramachandran is an Indian playback singer, composer, carnatic musician and a voice trainer. He has recorded songs for a number of

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movies and albums. Ramachandran has recorded more than 500 songs in

. He has performed at more than a hundred stage shows in

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and abroad. Ramachandran's music company Charu Creations launched in 2014 and created various albums.

Early life

Ramachandran was born into a family of musicians with eight other 'Ganabhooshanam' holders at

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to Mr.V.N.Ramachandran and Mrs. V.N. Thankamani. His father's elder brother, Sri Vaikom V.N. Rajan was his first music guru beginning in 1985. He started his academic music training at R.L.V. Music Academy,

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. He was trained in

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by Sri N.P.Ramaswami, and

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by Ustad

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and Mohan Kumar (disciple of Pandit

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). Ramachandran's talent and dedication won him prizes during his school and college days. He won the light music competition at All India Universities Youth Festival 1999. He won the

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Youth festival with A Grade in light music competition consecutively in 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Career

He was a finalist in the reality show ''Gandharvasangeetham'' in

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. Ramachandran was an Announcer and ‘B High’ Grade Artist for

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. He later worked as an administrator and a manager in the health care industry. He associated with Asha Hospital, Vatakara,

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(2008 Nov – 2010 Dec) as Manager Administration and in Lakshmi Hospital, Ernakulum (1998 TO 2007) as Manager of Administration. Uday Ramchandran Singer

Ramachandran has worked on audio albums and film songs. He rendered songs for various remakes and has released more than 500 audio cassettes and CDs. He collaborated with legends, including

G. Devarajan Paravoor Govindan Devarajan (1927–2006), popularly known as G. Devarajan or Devarajan master, was an Indian music composer and Carnatic singer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Indian film music. He sco ...

Master,

Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath () is an Indian musician from Kerala. He is well known as a carnatic musician as well as a composer. He lives in Thiruvananthapuram now, though hails from Perumbavoor, Ernakulam. His works always have the deep-roote ...

Raveendran Madhavan Raveendran ( ml, മാധവൻ രവീന്ദ്രൻ ), (born Kulathupuzha, Kollam, 9 November 1943 – died Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 3 March 2005), fondly known as ''Raveendran Master'', was a popular South Indian music composer an ...

Mash, Rajamani, Vidhaydharan Mash, Jayavijaya (Jayan), Mankombu Gopalakrishnan, Darshan Raman, T.S.Radhakrishnaji,

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, Santhosh Varma, Karthik Prakash, and Neeraj Gopal. His entry to playback singing was marked by a song in the movie ''Doctor Innocent Aanu'' and rendered a beautiful melody, "Ormakalkkoppam", in the movie ''Namboothiri Yuvavu @ 43''. Recently Ramachandran voiced an M Mohanan Movie ''My God'' under Bijibal's music composition.

Kuwait (2010 to 2012)

Ramachandran was instrumental in setting up the first Malayalam radio station in

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– 98.4 Ufm. He was the administration head and the music manager. Ramachandran’s Live show ''Heart-Throbs'' attracted thousands of listeners.

Discography

Latest Selected Albums 2018

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramachandran, Uday 21st-century Indian male classical singers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Singers from Kerala People from Vaikom