Shashikiran of Carnatica heard him sing and requested that he stay back in Chennai and subsequently from 2003 to 2005, Pradeep Kumar stayed in Chennai to collaborate with Carnita, and his parents joined him later. In 2003, Pradeep Kumar visited Chennai to participate in a competition conducted by the music studio, Carnatica.

As a backup career plan, he instead pursued a diploma course in audio engineering, which also taught him more about sound composition. However after a week, he decided to opt out of college. Outside music, Pradeep Kumar studied science, wrote the engineering entrance examination and joined an engineering college in Thanjavur hoping to become a theoretical physicist. Venkataraman from the Aalathur School of music, who became his first guru. He later was introduced as a playback singer in Tamil cinema through the film 36 Vayathinile (2015) by Santhosh Narayanan He later began studying music under J.

His mother, Lalitha Vijayakumar, taught Carnatic music through private lessons and at a government school in the area, meaning that Pradeep Kumar was constantly exposed to Carnatic music as a youngster and often joined his mother in singing at home. After beginning his career as a Carnatic musician, in the 2010s, he has regularly collaborated with composers Santhosh Narayanan and Sean Roldan.īorn to a police inspector father and a music teacher mother, Pradeep Kumar grew up in Trichy. Pradeep Kumar (born 1986) is an Indian playback singer and music director who has worked in Tamil language films.

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