Kaushik Menon

Kaushik Menon (also known as Kaushik) is a vocalist and an Indian playback singer working in the south Indian film industry for decades.. He started his professional playback singing career in the year in 2003, and since has been working as playback singer for many films in multiple languages - including Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu. He has so far undertaken about 300 musical projects, in which he has sung over 200 film songs . He is known for his song, "Natkal Nagardu varudangal " – the song of friendship, an award winning solo song, from the movie Ninaithale Inikkum that gave him a major breakthrough as a playback singer. His other famous songs includes: Kanni Vyil along with Shreya Ghoshal, from "Vari kuzhiele kolapathakam" in Malayalam film, Mellena sirippalo solo song from "Theneer viduthi" in Tamil, Choodu Choodu solo song, from the movie "Raja Yogam, in Telugu, Chitranga from the movie " Teluggabhai" along with veteran singer inTelegu along with Min Mini, Ravi varmana from the Kannada film "Budhivandha" along with veteran singer Hariharan etc.

He also owns a leading recording studio by the name of "Tapas Studio" In Chennai, as patronised by leading personalities and singers like S P Balasubramaniam, M Jayachandran, Anu Radha Sriram, Director Prabhu Solman S. Janaki, K S Chitra etc. He has been awarded "Golden Visa (cultural) " by the UAE Government, acknowledging his acoustic special talents. He has performed in many stage shows in the UAE along with being the RJ of a reputed FM in UAE, shuttling between UAE and India busy with his musical career. His other activities include being a judge in many Indian Television reality shows like Top star singer, Sari g ama Pa in Tamil, Sun Singer TV shows in Tamil and performed in many TV shows and musical events. He appeared in many Television shows and interviews in Vijay TV, Sun TV, Pudiya Thalaimurai TV, Vasanth TV. Mega TV, Tamizan TV, Sun Music, Zee Tamil, Kairali TV, Media 1, etc. His passion includes identifying young talents and coaching them to become a stage singer and has a record of making many young stage singers of today. In UAE he has been practicing "Al yowla" Arabic songs to intertwine with Indian Music in the form of fusion music, which has attracted the attention of many Arabic followers, He has verified social media followers, through which, his songs has become viral. He is also a "Branding and Creative Head" for many commercial firms from India, UAE & Canada, on contract, for the promotion of their products along with being the designer for many of their stage events.

Playback singing career

Early career Kaushik Menon has the record of being a young talent artist and started his singing in school youth festivals & stage shows and later at his age of 18 he was personally identified as a young talent and encouraged by the veteran singer S. Janaki to go to Chennai from his home town in Pallakad and she supported him throughout his younger days, giving him loads of opportunities to sing along with her in fifty plus, stage shows. Later, he got an opportunity to sing in front of music director Ilayaraja in the year 2003 and started his playback singing career. He was then recognised through his Ninaithale Inikkum movie song composed by Vijay Antony and he got the best upcoming playback singer award from Mirchi music awards.

In 2013, he made entry into the Mollywood with a duet melody number Nin Mounavum from the movie Entry. 2016 Dhanayathra Mutharam Rajamani 2017 C/O Sairabanu Aromale

Varikuzhiyile Kolapathakam Kanniveyil Anugraheethan Antony Bow Bow Arun Muraleedharan Anannya Nair

Telugu songs Year Film Song Music director Co-singer(s) 2008 Prema Rendojamu Joshua Sridhar Rita 2008 Prema Oh Priya Joshua Sridhar Sriya 2008 Swamy IPS Ayyayyo Ayyayyo Harris Jayaraj Shravya 2011 Prema Sagaram Premalo Regene Kalai, Shabesh Murali Solo 2012 Chelagatam Boys Google Sundar C. Babu Hema 2013 Telugabbai Chitranga Unde Mejo Joseph Minmini 2013 Telugabbai Chitranga Unde Manasu Mejo Joseph Minmini 2013 Telugabbai Na Camera Mejo Joseph Geetha Madhuri, Pavani

Kannada Songs

Television Title Songs

Awards Mirchi Music Awards South Year Category Song Film 2009 Best Upcoming Male Singer Natkal Nagarndhu Ninaithale Inikkum