Tanishq Swarna Sangeetham

Tanishq Swarna Sangeetham
Genre	Carnatic music, Reality
Presented by	Mathangi Jagdish (2012), Anuja Iyer (2013) and Sree Chitra (2014)
Judges	Papanasam Ashok Ramani and Nithyasree Mahadevan
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Tamil
No. of seasons	3
Production
Location(s)	Tamil Nadu, India
Running time	1 hour
Distributor	Raj TV
Release
Original network	Raj TV
Picture format	720i (SDTV)
Original release	2012 – 2014
External links
Website

Tanishq Swarna Sangeetham (Karnaataka Sangeethathin Thanga Kuralukkaana Thedal) is a reality-based Indian singing competition in Tamil language that is being aired on Raj TV. The program seeks to discover the best singing talent in the Carnatic music genre, through a series of statewide auditions in South India. The contest is run for youngsters between the age group 15-23. The show is sponsored by the diamond and gold jewellery store, Tanishq, and the winner of the show is awarded 5 lakh rupees worth of jewellery from Tanishq. The show completed three seasons after its debut in 2012.

Permanent judges for the talent in season 3 are eminent vocalists Papanasam Ashok Ramani and Nithyasree Mahadevan. Guest judges who appeared in season 3 include other eminent vocalists such as M. Balamuralikrishna, Sudha Raghunathan, S. Sowmya, G. V. Prakash, Shakthisree Gopalan, and others. The show aired on weekends between 9:30pm and 10:30pm, and re-runs are telecast between 9:30am and 10:30am.

This episode telecast performances from previous seasons of the show where then-contestants sang compositions of the Trinity of Carnatic Music, Papanasam Sivan, and Subramania Bharathiyar.

In each season, various prominent celebrity musicians appear on the show as special guest judges These musicians are invited to the show as golden ambassadors of the theme being promoted in each round of the competition. This episode telecast performances by the golden ambassadors in previous seasons of the show.

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