Hariharan (singer)

This article is about Indian playback singer. For other people, see Hariharan (disambiguation).

Hariharan
Hariharan in February 2014
Born
Hariharan Anantha Subramani

(1955-04-03) 3 April 1955 (age 69)
Trivandrum, Travancore–Cochin, India[1]
OccupationPlayback singer
Years active1977–present
HonoursPadma Shri (2004)
Kalaimamani (2005)
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)Vocals, harmonium

Hariharan Anantha Subramani (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback, bhajan and ghazal singer who predominantly sings in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu languages. He has also sung over 15,000 notable songs in 10+ languages including Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Sinhala, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Odia, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati and English. He is an established ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music.

In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India[2] and is a two-time National Award winner. Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis, formed the duo Colonial Cousins. They have cut many private music albums and also scored music for few feature films in Tamil and Hindi. In 1992, Hariharan and late Gulshan Kumar's Hanuman Chalisa recorded under the label of T-Series crossed the 3-billion views mark on YouTube,[3] making it the first devotional song in the world to do so.[4]

  1. ^ "Hariharan Interview: मैं सौ फीसदी बंबइया हूं! लेकिन विकिपीडिया वाले हैं कि मेरी बात सुनते ही नहीं". Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. ^ ""T-Series' Hanuman Chalisa Crosses 1 Billion Views On Youtube"". NDTV. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  4. ^ "T-Series' Hanuman Chalisa becomes first devotional song to cross 1 billion views on YouTube". India TV. 28 May 2020. Archived from the original on 19 June 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2020.