Devotional & Spiritual
India
Shankar Mahadevan
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About Shankar Mahadevan
Hometown
India
Born
March 3, 1967
Genre
Devotional & Spiritual
Shankar Mahadevan is a singer and composer of Indian classical and Hindu spiritual music, as well as the scores to dozens of Bollywood films.
โ After finding success as a playback singer for the 1994 film In Custody, Mahadevan left his previous career as a software engineer.
โ He joined with Loy Mendonsa and Ehsaan Noorani in 1997 to form the film-scoring team Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, which composed scores for more than 75 movies.
โ Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy composed the score for the 2003 Bollywood film Kal Ho Naa Ho, and its soundtrack was Indiaโs best-selling album that year.
โ He founded the Shankar Mahadevan Academy, a school devoted to the study of Indian classical music, in 2010.
โ In 2019, he was awarded the Padma Shri, which recognizes achievements in public service, for his contribution to film music.
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