Madhu Balakrishnan

The winner of a Kerala State Award and a Tamil Nadu State Award, both for Best Playback Singer, Tamil Nadu’s prestigious “Kalaimamani” title and numerous other accolades, Madhu Balakrishnan is today widely acclaimed as one of South India’s leading playback singers.

In a playback singing career spanning more than 25 years now, Madhu has sung over 500 film songs in multiple languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and even Tulu. He has sung for almost all major composers who are currently active, such as maestro Ilaiyaraaja, M. Jayachandran, Vidyasagar, M. M. Keeravani, Harris Jayaraj, D. Imman, Bijibal, Deepak Dev, and Gopi Sundar. The devout Hindu has also recorded more than 1,000 devotional songs, including Christian devotional songs, and appeared in several devotional music videos.