Unleashing the Spotlight on Extraordinary Talents.
www.talentsofworld.com | Talentsofworld Articles

Shakthisree Gopalan – an Indian vocalist, songwriter and performer.

An Indian vocalist, songwriter and performer.

Shakthisree Gopalan was born in a tamil family brought up in Kochi, Kerala. She did her schooling in Rajagiri Public School, Kalamassery. She moved to Chennai after her school and pursued her degree in Architecture at the Anna University's School of Architecture and Planning.

Shakthisree Gopalan

Shakthisree Gopalan was born in a tamil family brought up in Kochi, Kerala. She did her schooling in Rajagiri Public School, Kalamassery. She moved to Chennai after her school and pursued her degree in Architecture at the Anna University’s School of Architecture and Planning.

She was trained in Carnatic music for 13 years. During her 11th standard, SS Music conducted Voice Hunt 1. Since she was under 18, it ended with the auditions. Eventually in 2008, she won the second season of SS Music’s Voice Hunt. She was first auditioned in November 2008 and got the opportunity to sing her debut song for the film Taxi 4777.

At the age of 13, Shakthisree Gopalan was already trained in the field of Carnatic music and rock. After having won the

Career

At the age of 13, Shakthisree Gopalan was already trained in the field of Carnatic music and rock. After having won the “SS Music Voice Hunt ” title in the year 2008, Gopalan debuted into film playback in the same year. She was placed third in the Chennai Live’s Band hunt. In the year 2014, she performed in MCC (Madras Christian College) cultural fest at Deepwoods and National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli cultural fest Festember, SASTRA University cultural fest Kuruksastra’14, VIT University cultural fest Riviera 14 and Madras Institute of Technology cultural fest Mitafest 15.

“Off the Record” consists of Vikram Vivekanand (Guitar), Satish Narayanan (Bass) and Tapas Naresh/Vinay Ramakrishnan (Drums).

Shaktisree met A R Rahman when she got an assignment to design his music school, K M Music Conservatory. It was around that time she shared the music she had composed with him. That's when she got a break to sing 'Nenjikulle' for the movie Kadal, the first song that she recorded in her career. However, the title track for the composer's Bollywood film, Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) released first. She also got to jam the unplugged version of her Tamil film song

Break

Shaktisree met A R Rahman when she got an assignment to design his music school, K M Music Conservatory. It was around that time she shared the music she had composed with him. That’s when she got a break to sing ‘Nenjikulle’ for the movie Kadal, the first song that she recorded in her career. However, the title track for the composer’s Bollywood film, Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) released first. She also got to jam the unplugged version of her Tamil film song “Nenjukkule” from the film Kadal with A R Rahman.

She subsequently went on to record a number of songs for films such as “Irumbukottai Murattu Singham”, “Kattradhu Kalavu”. She has also been a backlisted vocalist for many A R Rahman compositions.

Apart from playback singing for movies, she also collaborated with Prashanth and released an indie single called Begin in November 2017.

She also released ‘By Your Side’ in December 2016, in which she collaborated with Hari Dafusia, a Toronto-based keyboardist-producer, and Nigel Roopnarine, a bass player.

She has won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil and the Vijay Award for Best Female Playback Singer for singing

Awards

She has won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil and the Vijay Award for Best Female Playback Singer for singing “Nenjukkulle” from Kadal

Television

Won - Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil -

Awards and nominations

Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

Share this article
Shareable URL
Prev Post

Sabina Sciubba – a singer, composer, and actress.

Next Post

Yazin Nizar : Indian playback Singer

Comments 19
  1. We’re a group oof volunteers and stating a new scheme in our community.
    Your site orfered us with valuable information tto wofk on. You’ve done a formidable joob and our
    whole commujity wil be grateful to you.

  2. Excellpent weblog here! Additionally your webwite lots up fast!
    Whatt web host aree you using? Can I am getting your associate
    hyperlink to your host? I wijsh myy website loaded upp as
    quickly ass yours lol

  3. Wow thawt wass unusual. I just wrote ann incredibly long comment buut
    aftedr I clickjed ubmit my comment didn’t show up.

    Grrrr… well I’m noot wrioting aall that over
    again. Anyways, jus wanted too say wonjderful blog!

  4. Afer I originally commented I seem to hve clicked on thee -Notify
    me when new commsnts are added- checkgox and now very time a coment is added I receive 4 emails wityh
    the exactt sawme comment. Is there a waay you can remove me from that service?
    Thanks!

  5. You’re so cool! I ddo nott think I’ve read anythying like this before.

    So wonderful to find someone wiith sime uniqaue thouights onn this topic.

    Seriously.. thanks forr starting this up. This site iss one tthing thzt iss needed on thee internet, someone with some originality!

  6. Hi, I think your website might be having browser compatibility issues. When I look at your website in Firefox, it looks fine but when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Other then that, wonderful blog!

  7. What i don’t understood is actually how you are not actually much more well-liked than you may be now. You’re so intelligent. You realize thus significantly relating to this subject, produced me personally consider it from so many varied angles. Its like men and women aren’t fascinated unless it’s one thing to do with Lady gaga! Your own stuffs great. Always maintain it up!

  8. Nice weblog right here! Additionally your website so much up very fast! What host are you using? Can I get your affiliate hyperlink to your host? I want my site loaded up as fast as yours lol

  9. Hello! I could have sworn I’ve been to this blog before but after browsing through some of the post I realized it’s new to me. Anyways, I’m definitely happy I found it and I’ll be book-marking and checking back frequently!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Read next

RAIGN : SINGER | SONGWRITER

She co-wrote several singles for albums by artists like Rita Ora, Jesse McCartney, and Tulisa, and in 2014 she…
www.talentsofworld.com | Talentsofworld Articles