Kharesma Ravichandran


Kharesma Ravichandran is a British playback singer for Tamil cinema films. She did her first public performance at the age of four for the British Heart Foundation. She is a professionally trained western vocalist and began her playback singing career in 2014. Ravichandran debuted as a playback singer with the Tamil film Yennai Arindhaal at the age of 14. She is signed as an independent artist under Hiphop Tamizha’s label “Underground”.

Early life

Ravichandran was born and brought up in the UK where she began her love for music. In 2011 she moved to India for schooling and due to her parents work.
She has completed her Grade 8 in vocals and Grade 5 in Piano for the Trinity College London - Music. She lived in Sri Lanka, studying at The Elizabeth Moir School. She is currently a BMus student at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Career

In 2011, Ravichandran moved to India where she began learning Hindustani and Carnatic music. She started singing jingles for ads such as Chicking, Alsa Mall, Impulse Perfume etc.
She started her career as an Indian Playback singer for a Gautham Vasudev Menon film Yennai Arindhaal with the song "Yaen Ennai" composed by Harris Jayaraj. She rose to fame from her song "Kadhal Cricketu" in the film Thani Oruvan composed by Hiphop Tamizha Aadhi and Jeeva. Kadhal Cricketu topped the Indian iTunes Chart and many radio stations in Chennai and other Tamil speaking channels all over the world for several weeks. Her next song "Party with the Pei" in Aranmanai 2 by Sundar C, composed by Hiphop Thamizha. This song also topped the Apple iTunes and radio charts for a few weeks.
Since then, she was nominated for the 63rd Filmfare - Best Female Singer Award, SIIMA 2016 for Best Playback singer and Edison Awards 2016.
Kharesma has also sung the theme song for a Nepali TV show PS Zindagi.
In January 2020, she released her first single "Marandhitiyo" ft Paul B Salius and MadPanda from her upcoming EP under the Underground Tribe label led by Hiphop Tamizha.

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