KK
Krishnakumar Kunnath
Background information
Birth name	Krishnakumar Kunnath
Also known as	KK, Kay Kay
Born	(1968-08-23) 23 August 1968 (age 43) Delhi, India
Genres	playback singing
Occupations	Singer, composer
Instruments	Vocal
Years active	1996–present

Krishnakumar Kunnath (born August 23, 1968), also known as KK, is an Indian playback singer. He is a prominent singer in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil films.^[1]

Born in Delhi to C. S Menon and Kanakavalli, a Malayali couple,^[2] Krishnakumar Kunnath was brought up in New Delhi.^[3] KK sang 3,500 jingles before Bollywood break. An alumnus of Delhi's Mount St. Mary school.^[4] He appeared in "Josh Of India" song for the support of Indian Cricket Team during Cricket World Cup 1999.^[5] Following this, he released an album called Pal for which he received a Star Screen Award for the Best Solo Album.^[6]

Personal life[link]

KK switched from Hindi to English songs during his teens. His versatile voice was soon tapped by various ad agencies in Delhi for jingles. He even formed a rock band with his friends and played drums for two other rock bands and did vocals.^[7]

KK married his childhood sweetheart Jyothi in 1991.^[7] His son Nakul sang a song "Masti" from his latest album Humsafar with him.^[8] KK also has a daughter named Taamara.

He has been greatly influenced by the singer Kishore Kumar and music director R.D.Burman.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

After graduating from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University in commerce. KK had a brief stint of eight months as marketing executive in the hotel industry. After few years, in 1994, he moved to Mumbai.^[7]

Playback singing[link]

In 1994, he gave his demo tape to Louis Banks, Ranjit Barot and Leslie Lewis to get a break in the music arena. He was called by UTV and he sung a jingle for Santogen Suiting ad.^[8] In a span of four years, he has sung more than 3,500 jingles in 11 Indian languages. He got the first break in Mumbai from UTV to sing jingles. He considers Leslie Lewis as his mentor for giving him his first jingle to sing in Mumbai.^[7] KK debuted as a playback singer with A. R. Rahman's hit song "Strawberry Kannae" from AVM Productions's musical film Minsara Kanavu (1997).^[9] A.R.Rahman is also fan of him. He got his Bollywood break with "Tadap Tadap Ke Is Dil" from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999).^[9] However, prior to this song he had song a small portion of the song "Chod aaye hum" from Gulzar's Maachis and "Jab Bhi Koi Haseena" from Priyadarshan's Hera Pheri. Till now, KK has sung more than 500 songs in Hindi and more than 200 songs in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages.^[10] He has worked with music composers such as Ilayaraja, Harris Jayaraj, Deva, Mani Sharma, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vidyasagar, Pritam, A. R. Rahman, Ismail Darber, Himesh Reshammiya, Vishal-Shekhar etc.^[7]

Albums and television[link]

In the year 1999, Sony Music had just been launched in India and they were looking to launch a new artiste. KK was selected as the new artiste and he came out with a solo album titled Pal with Leslie Lewis composing the music. Pal was the first album released by KK under Sony Music for which he got the prestigious Screen award as best singer.

On January 22, 2008, KK released his second album Humsafar after a gap of eight years.^[11] The songs "Aasmaan Ke", "Yeh Kahan Mil Gaye Hum" and "Rain Bhai [Maajhi]" are famous songs from this album, besides, KK had also sung an English Rock Ballad "Cineraria". The title track, "Humsafar" is a mix of English and Hindi lyrics. Humsafar has 10 songs, out of which eight have been composed by KK. The other two songs were taken from his previous album Pal. He has released his new album named "Soulful Voice KK" with the great numbers.

KK appeared on television too. He was invited as jury member for a talent hunt show Fame Gurukul, but he is clear that he would not like to return to television.^[12]

KK participated in the latest musical venture of MTV India Coke Studio. There he sung one qawwali Chadta Suraj along with Sabri Brothers and a recomposed version of his famous song Tu Aashiqui Hai from movie Jhankaar Beats.^[13]

Discography[link]

Awards and honours[link]

Performances[link]

KK frequently performs at live performances for corporations, schools, and educational institutions, like Oasis, the cultural festival of BITS Pilani in 2008,^[15]Antaragni, the Cultural Festival of IIT Kanpur,^[16] Waves the Cultural Festival of Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani - Goa Campus.^[17] KK has also performed abroad in the USA,the UK,Canada,Australia,New Zealand,Dubai,Qatar,Holland,Mauritius,Bangladesh,Singapore etc. Recently, On 1 December 2011 KK performed at Infosys DC Pune. The show was held at Infosys DC cricket ground as an initiative by Infosys HRD department. The show was supported by an awesome crowd of at least 15000.^{[citation needed]} On 21 December 2011 KK performed at Mood Indigo 2011, the annual cultural festival at IIT Bombay.^[18] On 24 December 2011 KK performed at Wheel'11 Jamshedpur organised by Tata Motors Jamshedpur GET Club.And on 3 February 2012 also he had performed a wonderful stage show in Amrita university where National level techfest Vidyut was held in kerala. KK has also performed at the cultural festival of S.V. National Institute of Technology on 26 February 2012. He recently performed at Crossroads'12, the annual fest of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. KK has been invited to perform at the Foundation Day function of Corporation Bank at Mangalore on 12 March 2012. He enthralled the audience in New Delhi on the 17th March 2012 at Moksha 2012, the annual cultural festival of Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology(NSIT), New Delhi.^[19] he also performed on 8 april 2012, culture and techno annual fest "SAPANDAN-2012" in Manav Rachan International University, Faridabad.

References[link]

External links[link]

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K(Kang Yoon Sung)(born November 16, 1983 in Goyang), better known by his stage name K, is a pop singer from South Korea under contract in Japan. After the failure of his first album in South Korea in 2004, K crossed over to Japan.^[1] His first Japanese album, Beyond the Sea, has achieved a sales of over 300,000 copies.

K put his musical activities on hold in 2010 so he can complete the Korean mandatory military service.^[2]

Discography[link]

Japanese studio albums[link]

Other Japanese albums[link]

Korean Albums[link]

1. K (April 28, 2004)
2. Beautiful Smile (January 20, 2006)

Singles[link]

As lead artist[link]

As featured artist[link]

DVDs[link]

• Film K: A Voice from the Heaven (February 15, 2006)
• Film K Vol. 2: Music in My Life (June 25, 2008)
• film K vol.3 live K in 武道館〜so long〜 20101130 (March 2, 2011)

Other appearances[link]

• Wanna Be the Piano Man: "Honesty" (オネスティ, Onesuti^?) (November 29, 2006)
• Céline Dion Tribute: "To Love You More (featuring Aki)" (September 26, 2007)

Live tours[link]

• Live K Tour 2006: Beyond the Sea (March—May 2006)
• Live K Tour 2006: Winter (November—December 2006)
• Live K Tour 2007: Music in My Life (June 2007)
• Live K Tour 2008: Ki zu na (June 2008)
• Live K Tour 2009 (March—May 2009)

References[link]

External links[link]

• K Official web site (Japanese)
• Sony Music Entertainment (Japanese)
• STARDUST MUSIC (Japanese)
• K (JAPAN)　Facebook

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Benny Dayal
Background information
Born	(1984-05-13) May 13, 1984 (age 28) Kollam, Kerala, India
Genres	Playback singing, Indi-pop
Occupations	Singer
Years active	2006 - present

Benny Dayal^[1] (Malayalam: ബെന്നി ദയാല്‍) (born on May 13, 1984)^{[citation needed]} is an Indian singer. He is a member of the band S5 launched by the channel SS Music.^[2] Originally from Kerala, he has worked as a playback singer with many noted composers to produce successful soundtracks.

Biography[link]

Benny Dayal's parents hail from Kollam district, Kerala.^[3] Benny was born and bought up in Abu Dhabi and completed his schooling there and went on to complete his B.Com from Madras Christian College. After his graduation from MCC, he did a diploma in journalism from the same college.^[4] He was working as Admin Assistant with RR Donnelley. He quit his job in BPO and decided to dedicate his career to music.^[5] Most of the films he sung are for A. R. Rahman in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam. He has since worked with several music composers including Harris Jayaraj, Pravin Mani, Yuvan Shankar Raja, James Vasanthan, Joshua Sridhar and Devi Sri Prasad.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Isai
• Ithu Premamo
• Saaral (Produced by Rainbow Bridge Studios)
• Kavithai Gundar (Produced by Emce Jasz)
• Swaasam (Hexachord)

Film Songs[link]