Kharesma Ravichandran
| Kharesma Ravichandran | |
|---|---|
| Born |
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 , and since then she has sung for many major movies and given hit songs, also she has done many jingles for products such as Chick king, Super market chains, Jazz cenimas.
Kharesma Ravichandran was born and brought up in the UK where she began her love for music. At a very young age she began vocal lessons. She is currently doing Grade 8 in vocal and Grade 5 in piano for the Trinity College of Music. Kharesma has also done 20+ theatre shows in her time and acted as Agent 99 in CBBC’s Number Jacks in 2009 which is being telecasted all over the world in various languages as an educational children's programme. She is currently living in Sri Lanka studying at the Elizabeth Moir School and is in Year 12 (Class XI).
In 2011, she moved to India where she began learning Hindustani and Karanatic music. She started for jingles for ads such as Chicking, Alsa Mall, Impulse Perfume etc.
At the age of 13+ she signed on her first movie as an Indian Playback singer for a Gautham Vasudev Menon film "Yennai Arindhaal" composed by Harris Jayaraj. However, it was her first solo song "Kadhal Cricketu" in the film “Thani Oruvan” composed by Hiphop Tamizha Aadhi and Jeeva, which brought her a collective number of 16+ million views on Youtube. 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 after that she sang the chart topping number "Party with the Pei" in Aranmanai 2 by Sundar C, which was once again composed by Hiphop Thamizha. This song too 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.
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