Shankar Mahadevan was born on Friday,3 March 1967(age 56 years; as in 2023) in the Chembur suburb of Mumbai.

Education

He did his schooling from Chembur’s Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High school and Swami Vivekananda School. He attained his graduate degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Navi Mumbai in 1998.

By the age of 5,Shankar had already become an adroit harmonium player and had also started playing Veena . He learned the Hindustani Classical music from Pandit Shrinivas Khale.

He has also been mentored by TR Balamani in Carnatic Classical Music.

Mahadevan got early fame as a indipop star with his fusion of Carnatic, Hindustani and Jazz. At that time, his non-film album, Breathless topped the Indian music charts in 1998.

Shankar Mahadevan has also provided vocals for several compositions of Remember Shakti which features maestros like Zakir Hussain, John McLaughlin, U.Srinivas and Selvaganesh Vinayakram.

He is also a mentor on Zee TV’s musical reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009.

Achievement

2000: National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer- “Yenna Solla Pogirai”.

2000: Swaralaya- kairali-Yesudas Award for outstanding contribution to Indian film music.

2008: Kerala State Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer- “Kalyana Kacheri”(Madampi).

2009: Annual Malayalam Movie Awards (Dubai) for Best Male Singer – “Pichavecha Naal”.

2011: Lata Mangeshkar Award by Government of Andhra Pradesh.

2012: National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer- “Bolo Na”(Chittagong)