Kharesma Ravichandran

Kharesma Ravichandran
Born	(2000-05-08) 8 May 2000 London, UK
Years active	2015–present

Kharesma Ravichandran (born 2000) is an Indian playback singer. She did her 1st public performance at the age of 4 for British heart foundation singing "We are one" from Lion King Musical. She is a professionally trained western vocalist and began her playback singing career in 2014.

She debuted as a Playback singer with the Tamil film “Yennai Arindhaal” at the age of 14. She has also done jingles for products such as Chick king, Super market chains, Jazz cinemas.

Early life

Kharesma Ravichandran was born and brought up in the UK where she began her love for music. She is currently doing Grade 8 in Vocal and Grade 5 in Piano for the Trinity College London - Music. She is currently living in Sri Lanka studying at the Elizabeth Moir School and is in Year 12 (Class XII).

Career

In 2011, she moved to India where she began learning Hindustani and Carnatic music. She started for 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(1)"

Discography

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