Airtel Super Singer is a 2006 Indian

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, that was sponsored by KAG Tiles for the tenth season. The show is televised in India on

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, and worldwide through partner broadcasting networks. The show, together with its spin-off editions such as

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

, are part of Vijay TV's Super Singer TV series. The program, which debuted on 28 April 2006, seeks to discover the best playback recording voice and singing talent in

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through a series of statewide auditions. Selected contestants are required to participate in several competition rounds, often based on a theme for a given week, and aim to be selected to perform in the show's grand finale each season. Winners and finalists of the competition have been offered chances to sing a song in upcoming

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, and other prizes such as sums of money, gold, and real estate property. The eleventh season is set to launch very soon.

Series overview

Season synopsis

Season 10 John Jerome Winner

History

Super Singer Season 1

The first season premiered on 28 April 2006, with a series of episodes which telecasted auditions for the show. Auditions were held across the state of

in the cities of

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, and

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. Performances by auditioning contestants were judged by singers

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Jency Jensy Gregory (née Anthony), also known mononymously as Jensy (also spelt Jency), is an Indian playback singer who has worked with composers like Ilaiyaraaja in Tamil films. Career Jensy Gregory hails from a family of musicians and music came ...

Malaysia Vasudevan Vasudevan (15 June 1944 – 20 February 2011), popularly known as Malaysia Vasudevan, was a prolific Tamil playback singer and actor. Born in the town of Kuala Selangor in the Federated Malay States (present day Malaysia), he moved to Che ...

, Sirkazhi Sivachidambaram,

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, and music director

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. The show was hosted by playback singer Chinmayi. Later stages of the competition were held at a specially designed studio set, and performances were judged by a panel of permanent judges consisting of playback singers

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P. Unnikrishnan Parakkal Unnikrishnan (born 9 July 1966) is an Indian Carnatic vocalist and playback singer. Early life and background Unnikrishnan was born to K. Radhakrishnan and Dr. Harini Radhakrishnan in Palakkad, Kerala. The family home, Kesari Kuteer ...

, and

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. Contestants were eliminated during the competition, and finalists received special training from voice expert

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in the final stages of the competition. Season 1 title winner Nikhil Mathew was formally introduced as a playback singer after he sang the song "Enadhuyire" in the Tamil film ''

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'' for music director,

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. Season 1 runner up and viewer's choice, Anitha V. (now known as Anitha Karthikeyan) was formally introduced as a playback singer in the Tamil film ''

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'' by music director D. Imman.

Super Singer Season 2

The second season premiered on 7 July 2008; It held a series of episodes that telecast auditions for the show. Auditions for the show, which commenced on 27 June 2008, were held across three cities in the state of

. Performances by auditioning contestants were judged by playback singers

and

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in the city of

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and

Deepan Chakravarthy Dheepan Chakkravarthy is an Indian playback singer. He is the son of the first playback singer in the Tamil film industry, "Isai Thendral" Thiruchi Loganathan Thiruchi Loganathan (24 July 1924 – 17 November 1989) was an Indian playback si ...

in the city of

, as well as

and Mathangi in the city of

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. Playback singer Chinmayi returned as a permanent host of the show up to and including 21 January 2009, following which she left the show much to the disappointment of many fans of the show. She was replaced by a duo, singer-actor Yugendran and his wife, Malini, for the remainder of the show in 2009. Playback singers

and

returned as permanent judges of the show, and a new permanent judge, playback singer Sujatha replaced

(who instead appeared as a guest judge through the season). Contestants were eliminated during the competition, and finalists received special training from voice expert

in the final stages of the competition. The Grand Finale was held on 3 June 2009 at YMCA Royapettah, Chennai. At the finals,

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won the competition and was chosen by

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to sing the song ''

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'' for the

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film,

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Super Singer Season 3

Airtel Super Singer 3, the third season of the Airtel Super Singer show, premiered on 12 July 2010. The third season was hosted by Divya Vijayagopal and

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. The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, and were judged by singers including

Nithyasree Mahadevan Nithyasree Mahadevan (born 25 August 1973), also referred to as S. Nithyasree, is a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. Nithyashree has performed in all major sabhas in India. She has released more tha ...

Unni Menon Nambalatt Narayanankutty Menon (born 2 December 1955), known better by his stage name Unni Menon is an Indian film playback singer. He has recorded over 4000 songs in many Indian languages including Malayalam, Tamil language, Tamil, Telugu lang ...

, Sowmya,

Harish Raghavendra Harish Raghavendra (born 7 December 1976) is an Indian singer who has worked mainly in Tamil films. He is the son of photographer P.V Raghavendran. Harish is best known for his songs like "Hey Azhagiya Theeyee" from '' Minnale'', "Nirpadhuve N ...

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, and

Malgudi Subha Malgudi Subha (born 17 October 1965; also spelled as Malgadi Shuba) is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded songs in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi. In a career spanning two decades, she has sung more than 3000 songs. She ...

. Sujatha,

and

continued to be the permanent judges for the third consecutive season. The grand finale was held on 23 September 2011 at Chennai Trade Centre and was broadcast live.

Saicharan P. Sai Sharan is a Carnatic musician and Indian playback singer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He rose to prominence after winning '' Airtel Super Singer 3''. He was previously a top 4 finalist in the debut season of the junior version of the show, ...

won the competition, and was chosen by

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and

to sing in the films '' Godfather'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Super Singer Season 4

Airtel Super Singer 4, the fourth season of the

Airtel Super Singer Airtel Super Singer is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition, that was sponsored by KAG Tiles for the tenth season. The show is televised in India on Vijay TV, and worldwide through partner broadcasting networks ...

show, premiered on 4 February 2013. The fourth season was hosted by Makapa Anand,

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, and

Bhavana Balakrishnan Bhavana Balakrishnan (born 25 May 1985) is an Indian television anchor, cricket commentator, video jockey, playback singer and dancer. She is one of the most popular sports journalists in India after Mayanti Langer. She currently works as a b ...

. The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, and were judged by singers including

, Sowmya,

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and Rajinderpal Singh. Playback singers,

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and

, were the judges for the fourth season. Diwakar won the competition, and was chosen by music directors

, Vivek-Mervin, and Kannan to sing in the films ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Super Singer Season 5

Airtel Super Singer 5, the fifth season of the

show, premiered on 1 June 2015. The fifth season was hosted by Makapa Anand,

, and

. The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu and were telecast until 3 July 2015. First-round audition judges included season 3 winner

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, season 4 winner

Diwakar Dhivagaran Santhosh (also known as Diwakar) is an Indian playback singer and live performer. He is best known for winning '' Airtel Super Singer 4'', a Tamil language musical reality TV show which was telecast from February 4th 2013 to Februar ...

, and former contestants from those seasons such as D. Sathyaprakash, Pooja Vaidyanath, Santhosh Hariharan, and Sonia. Second and third round audition judges included S. P. Charan,

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, S. Sowmya, and

. Zonal audition judges were permanent judges from the junior version of the show,

, and

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. A total of 33 contestants were selected for the finals, including local, international, and former contestants. Playback singers,

, and

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, were the judges for the fifth season. At the finale of the show, contestant

Anand Aravindakshan Anand Aravindakshan (born 1989) is an Indian playback singer, and title winner of Airtel Super Singer 5, a television-based reality singing competition in Tamil televised on Vijay TV. Early life Anand did his school education from Chennai, a ...

was declared the winner of the season, while contestant Fareedha was declared first runner-up. Both finalists were promised an opportunity to sing for one of the upcoming films of music director

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. Contestant Rajaganapathy was chosen as the judge's choice scoring the highest marks and being declared the second runner-up of the season. The season landed in

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as social media users accused the

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Indian TV channel of wrongdoing. Social media users expressed concern that audiences who spent time and money to support talented youngsters were the victim of unethical practices and criticised the channel for not being upfront about the fact that the winning contestant was already a professional playback singer - which was defended by the channel.

Super Singer Season 6

Nippon Paint Super Singer 6 was hosted by Makapa Anand and

, which ran from 21 January 2018 to 15 July 2018 and was broadcast by Star Vijay. All the episodes of Super Singer 6 are available on the OTT platform

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. The Judging Panel includes,

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, and

Shweta Mohan Shweta Mohan (born 19 November 1985) is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded songs for films and albums in all the four south Indian cinema namely Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada, besides few Hindi films and has established hersel ...

A.R. Rahman Allah Rakha Rahman (; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967), also known by the initialism ARR, is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and philanthropist known for his works in Indian cinema ...

was the Ambassador for this season. The top 6 finalists were Rakshitha, Sreekanth, Sakthi, Anirudh, Malavika, and

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. The results of the finale are given as: *

was declared the Winner of the Super Singer 6 * Rakshitha Suresh became the first runner up of the season and gets applauded by everyone for being the "Golden Voice of the Season". * Malavika Rajesh Vaidya was the second runner up of the season. * Suswaram Anirudh, Sakthi Amaran, Sreekanth Hariharan were the other finalists

Super Singer Season 7

Asian Paints Super Singer 7 started on 27 April 2019 and finished on 10 November 2019 on

Star Vijay Star Vijay is an Indian Tamil language general entertainment pay television channel owned by JioStar, a joint venture between Viacom18 and Disney India. The channel telecasts programmes such as serials, reality shows & Tamil films. History T ...

and was telecast from 8 PM onwards. Makapa Anand and

return as the hosts for this season. This season returns with the same judges' panel including,

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, and

. Anirudh Ravichandran is the Ambassador for this season. The top 5 were Mookuthi Murugan (SS3), Sam Vishal (SS7), Vikram (SS13), Gowtham, and Punya(SS 6). Winners: * Murugan was declared the Winner of the Super Singer Season 7 and received a 50 lakh worth house by Arun Excello. * Vikram was the first runner up of the season and was awarded 25 lakh gold by Gold one. * Sam Vishal and Punya were tied as the second runner up of the season. * Gowtham was the third runner up of the season. All of the episodes of this season are available on the OTT Platform-

Super Singer Season 8

Asian Paints Super Singer 8 premiered on 24 January 2021 with a Grand Launch of a nine-hour program on

with grace performances of Hariharan,

Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (''honoris causa'' degree) by Birmingham Ci ...

Sid Sriram Sidharth Sriram (born 19 May 1990) is an Indian Carnatic musician, music producer, playback singer. He is an R&B songwriter and has been working in the Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi and English music industry. He regul ...

Sakthisree Gopalan Shakthisree Gopalan is an Indian vocalist, composer, songwriter and performer, famous for her collaborations with the top south-Indian music composers like A.R. Rahman. Aside from the film music, she is a regular in the independent music scene, ...

Saindhavi Saindhavi (born 3 January 1989) is an Indian carnatic vocalist and playback singer. She has been performing since the age of 12. Personal life Saindhavi married her schoolmate, composer G. V. Prakash Kumar, on 27 June 2013, in Chennai, India. ...

Vijay Prakash Vijay Prakash (born 21 February 1976) is an Indian Playback singer and Music director from Karnataka. He has given his voice for predominantly Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu language films, in addition to Hindi, Malayalam and Marathi language ...

, Karthik,

Anthony Daasan Anthony Daasan is an Indian folk singer currently working in the Tamil film industry. He is known for contributing a powerful voice to fusions of Tamil folk, country, jazz, electronica and rock styles. Before this phase of playback singing, he ...

Shashaa Tirupati Shashaa Kiran Tirupati (born 21 December 1989) is an Indian singer, songwriter, and music producer known for her work in the Indian film and music industries. Popularly known as "The Humma Girl", in 2018, she won the National Film Award for B ...

Kalpana Raghavendar Kalpana Raghavendar (born 8 May 1980) is an Indian playback singer, winner of Idea Star Singer Malayalam and participant in Bigg Boss Telugu Season 1, songwriter and actor. She started her career as a playback singer at the age of five and, by ...

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, S. P. Charan,

Gana Bala Bala Murugan, better known by his stage name Gana Bala is an Indian playback singer in Tamil cinema. He rose to prominence after rendering the songs 'Aadi Pona Aavani' and 'Nadukadalula Kappala' from the soundtrack of '' Attakathi''. He has pre ...

Chinnaponnu Chinnaponnu (also credited as Chinna Ponnu or Chinnaponnu Kumar) is a folk and playback singer from the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Early life Chinnaponnu was born in Suranam, a small village in Sivagangai district, Tamil Nadu, India. She start ...

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. All the episodes will be available on the OTT Platform-

. The judging panel was often shuffled with

, S. P. Charan,

Shakthisree Gopalan Shakthisree Gopalan is an Indian vocalist, composer, songwriter and performer, famous for her collaborations with the top south-Indian music composers like A.R. Rahman. Aside from the film music, she is a regular in the independent music scene, ...

and

. Once again, the eighth season was hosted by Makapa Anand and

. The Grand Finale aired on 26 September 2021. At the finals, Sridhar Sena won the title. Prize Winners: * Sridhar Sena was announced the Winner of the Super Singer 8 and received a 10 lakh award by Vijay TV. He has also been provided the opportunity to sing in a future film song composed by

Anirudh Ravichander Anirudh Ravichander (born 16 October 1990), also credited mononymously as Anirudh, is an Indian composer and playback singer who works primarily in Tamil cinema, in addition to Telugu and Hindi films. He has won two Filmfare Awards South, ten ...

. * Bharat K Rajesh (announced by Mervin Solomon) was the runner up of the season and was awarded an amount of 3 lakhs and an additional amount of Rs 50,000. * Abhilash Venkatachalam was announced third place by

. He received a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh, and stated that the money was going to be spent for those who were affected by the COVID - 19 Pandemic situation. * Muthusirpi was awarded the title of Differentiator of the Season and received an amount of Rs 1 lakh, presented by

Season 8 contestants

Super Singer Season 9

MRF Vapocure Paints Super Singer Season 9 started on 19 November 2022 on

and was telecast from every Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 PM. Makapa Anand and

returns as the hosts for this season. This season returns with the same judges' panel including,

, and

. Super Singer Season 9 Grand Finale was held on 25 June 2023 at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai. Before the grand finale took place and during the contestants' tenure at

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, several finalists, were offered to sing in film albums. Music directors, such as

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and

Hiphop Tamizha Adhi Hiphop Tamizha () is an Indian musical duo based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The duo consists of Rangadhithya "Adhi" Ramachandran Venkatapathy and R. Jeeva. Their commercial break-through came with the song "Club le Mabbu le" in 2011. In 2012, Hip ...

gave these splendid opportunities to the finalists. First, Pooja Venkatraman was offered to sing a song under

Sam C. S Sam C. S. is an Indian music composer, producer, lyricist and singer who predominantly works in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. He debuted in Tamil with the horror film ''Orr Eravuu'' before working on the scientific thriller ''Ambuli''. His ...

's direction. Then Abhijith Anilkumar was offered to co-sing a song with

Shreya Ghoshal Shreya Ghoshal (; born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer. Noted for her wide vocal range and versatility, she is one of the most prolific and influential singers of India. Often referred to as the "Queen of Dynamics'' for her remarkable voc ...

in the film Thiruvin Kural, and the lyrics were written by the songwriter

Vairamuthu Vairamuthu Ramasamy (born 13 July 1953) is an Indian lyricist, poet, and novelist working in the Tamil film industry. He is a prominent figure in the Tamil literary world. A master's graduate from the Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai, he firs ...

. Finally, Aruna Sivaya was offered to sing a song under the music direction of

. The five finalists of

are Abhijith Anilkumar, Aruna Sivaya, Pooja Venkatraman, Priya Jerson and Prasanna Adhisesha. Prassana Adhisesha was nominated from the wildcard round. Several guests that included in the grand finale are

, Binni Krishnakumar. The grand finale consisted of two rounds. The first round and the second round enabled the contestants to choose their own songs and sing them in front of the wide audience. Several contestants merged two songs, during the second round. ''Prize Winners:'' * Aruna Sivaya, who was announced by

, won Super Singer 9. So she was gifted with an apartment worth 60 Rs lakhs and received a Rs 10 lakhs cash prize award by Star Vijay. * Priya Jerson was announced by Harris Jayaraj, as the first runner-up of Super Singer 9 and was awarded a Rs 10 lakhs cash prize award by Star Vijay. * Prasanna Adhisesha was announced as the second runner-up of Super Singer 9 and was awarded a Rs 5 lakhs cash prize award by Star Vijay.

Super Singer Season 10

Super Singer Season 10, the tenth season of the Airtel Super Singer show, premiered on

on 16 December 2023, and telecasts every Saturday and Sunday. KAG Tiles is the sponsor for this season. Once again, this season is hosted by Makapa Anand and

. The judging panel of this season is,

Sean Roldan Raghavendra Raja Rao, known by his stage name Sean Roldan is an Indian composer, musician, and lyricist who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He has worked on Carnatic music, independent music, and film scores for the Tamil film i ...

, and

. The Grand Finale was on 23 June 2024. At the finals, John Jerome was the title winner. Jeevitha became the first runner-up, and Vaishanvi became the second runner-up. ''Prize Winners:'' * John Jerome; won Super Singer 10. So he was gifted with an apartment worth 60 Rs lakhs. * Jeevitha; first runner-up Singer 10 * Vaishnavi; second runner-up of Super Singer 10.

Celebrity Guests

Season 10 saw several celebrity guests praising the contestants for their fantastic performances and also performing along with the contestants, who include:

Super Singer Season 11

Super Singer Season 11, the eleventh season of the Airtel Super Singer show, is set to launch very soon. Once again, the eleventh season will be hosted by the dynamic duo Makapa Anand and

Spin-off

Super Singer T20

Super Singer T20 (சூப்பர் சிங்கர் T20) is a 2012-2015 Indian

-language reality television

, which aired on

. Former contestants from previous seasons of the Super Singer and

shows were divided into 6 teams. 15 league matches were held where each team competed against the other five teams. 4 teams were selected for the knockout semi-finals, before the remaining 2 teams competed against each other in the finals. The show was hosted by

Divyadarshini Dhivyadharshini "DD" Neelakandan is an Indian television presenter, host and actress. She predominantly works in Tamil television and film industry especially in Tamil entertainment. She has hosted numerous television shows such as Koffee with ...

Super Singer - Champion of Champions

Super Singer - Champion of Champions is a 2020 Indian

-language reality television

, which aired on

. The show has nearly 24 singers, all of them winners and finalists of Super Singers, who are now performing batch by batch, and with no audience to cheer them on. The show was aired from 15 August to 1 November 2020 and ended with 21 Episodes.

Sudha Ragunathan Sudha Ragunathan is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, singer and composer. She was conferred the Kalaimamani award by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1994, Padma Shri (2004) and Padma Bhushan (2015) by the Government of India, and Sangeetha Kala ...

, Chinmayi,

and

Sikkil Gurucharan Sikkil C. Gurucharan (born 21 June 1982) is among the foremost young performing musicians of Carnatic music in India today. He is the grandson of Sikkil Kunjumani, elder of the internationally acclaimed flautists the Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani ...

as the judges, take turns to watch their performance live, albeit, from their homes. The show was hosted by

Ma Ka Pa Anand Ma ka Pa Anand is an Indian actor and television presenter. He has hosted ''Super Singer (Tamil reality show) , Super Singer'', ''Athu Ithu Ethu'', ''Kings of Dance'', ''KPY Champions'', ''Mrs. Chinnathirai'', ''The Wall'', ''Cinema Kaaram Coff ...

and

. Super Singer Champion Of Champions Winner is Hari Priya.

Adaptations

References

External links

Official Super Singer Junior Forum
* {{STAR Vijay TV shows Airtel Super Singer Star Vijay original programming 2006 Tamil-language television series debuts Tamil-language singing talent shows Tamil-language reality television series Tamil-language television shows Television shows set in Tamil Nadu 2000s singing talent shows 2000s reality television series 2010s singing talent shows 2010s reality television series 2020s singing talent shows 2020s reality television series 2021 Tamil-language television seasons

Series overview

Season synopsis

History

Super Singer Season 1

Super Singer Season 2

Super Singer Season 3

Super Singer Season 4

Super Singer Season 5

Super Singer Season 6

Super Singer Season 7

Super Singer Season 8

Season 8 contestants

Super Singer Season 9

Super Singer Season 10

Celebrity Guests

Super Singer Season 11

Spin-off

Super Singer T20

Super Singer - Champion of Champions

Adaptations

See also

References

External links