Airtel Super Singer
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Airtel Super Singer is a reality-based
Indian
singing competition
in Tamil language
that aired on STAR Vijay
. The program seeks to discover the best singing talent in Tamil Nadu
through a series of statewide auditions. The show is sponsored by the mobile service provider, Airtel
. The show debuted in 2006 and has completed its second season. The winner of event gets a chance to sing a Tamil movie
song.
The show usually airs on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights in India
and is telecast worldwide through partner broadcasting networks.
was announced the winner and was selected to sing a song, Enadhuyire in the Tamil film, Bheema
for the music director, Harris Jayaraj
.
, Tiruchirapalli
and Coimbatore
. Sujatha
, Unnikrishnan and Srinivas
were the judges of the show. Ajeesh
won the competition and was chosen by Yuvan Shankar Raja
to sing the song Idhu Varai
for the soundtrack
of the Tamil
film, Goa
.
(adjudged to be the best performance in finals by the judges.They were badly disappointed and emotional with the final results, as they considered Sathya Prakash
to be deserving the winning title) won 2nd Runner Up and his prize was 3 lakhs (IND). And Pooja Vaidyanath
was 3rd Runner Up and her prize was 1 lakh (IND).
Permanent Judges: Sujatha, Unnikrishnan, Srinivas
.
Audition Judges: Harish Raghavendra
, S.P.Sailaja, Pop Shalini
, Mahathi
, Nithyasree Mahadevan
, Sowmya
, Malgudi Subha
, and Unni Menon
.
Reality
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Indian
Television in India
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singing competition
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
in Tamil language
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
that aired on STAR Vijay
STAR Vijay
STAR Vijay is a popular Indian entertainment channel broadcasting in Tamil. The channel is also available in several other nations as well. The channel is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...
. The program seeks to discover the best singing talent in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
through a series of statewide auditions. The show is sponsored by the mobile service provider, Airtel
Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited , commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian telecommunications company that operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. It operates a GSM network in all countries, providing 2G or 3G services depending upon the country of operation...
. The show debuted in 2006 and has completed its second season. The winner of event gets a chance to sing a Tamil movie
Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema is the film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam district, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered...
song.
The show usually airs on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights in India
India
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and is telecast worldwide through partner broadcasting networks.
Season 1
The first season of Airtel Super Singer debuted in 2006. Nikhil MathewNikhil Mathew
Nikhil Mathew is a singer from Kerala, India. In 2006, he won the Airtel Super Singer reality show. As the show's winner he won a chance to sing a song for music director Harris Jayaraj - Enadhuyire along with Chinmayee, Sadhana Sargam, Sowmya Raoh for the Tamil film Bheema...
was announced the winner and was selected to sing a song, Enadhuyire in the Tamil film, Bheema
Bheema
-Box office:In its opening week, the film grossed a record of 19 crores in Tamil nadu and fetched a record 5 crores in Thiruvarur alone, thus becoming the second biggest opening after Sivaji at that time. The film debuted at number one position at the Chennai box-office and grossed 58 lakhs in the...
for the music director, Harris Jayaraj
Harris Jayaraj
Harris Jayaraj is an Indian film composer. He has written scores and soundtracks for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.- Early life :Harris Jayaraj hails from a pious Christian Nadar family and was born and brought up in Chennai. Harris studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School, Nungambakam. His father,...
.
Season 2
Auditions for the 2008 show started on June 27, 2008. Judges had to shortlist from about 10000 canditates from auditions in three cities, ChennaiChennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
, Tiruchirapalli
Tiruchirapalli
Tiruchirappalli ) , also called Tiruchi or Trichy , is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli District. It is the fourth largest municipal corporation in Tamil Nadu and also the fourth largest urban agglomeration in the state...
and Coimbatore
Coimbatore
Coimbatore , also known as Kovai , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a major commercial centre in Tamil Nadu and is known as the "Manchester of South India"....
. Sujatha
Sujatha Mohan
Sujatha Mohan , usually credited as Sujatha, is an award-winning Indian playback singer who is popular for singing in Malayalam and Tamil movies. She has also sung for Telugu, Kannada and Hindi movies. She is widely popular for her evergreen melodies and her sweet voice is considered to be her...
, Unnikrishnan and Srinivas
Srinivas (singer)
Srinivas 'Srini' is an award winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.-Early life:...
were the judges of the show. Ajeesh
Ajeesh
Ajeesh is an Indian playback singer from Tamil Nadu. He was the winner of the second season of the reality-based singing competition Airtel Super Singer. The winner was to be given a chance to sing a song for music director Yuvan Shankar Raja...
won the competition and was chosen by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...
to sing the song Idhu Varai
Idhu Varai
Idhu Varai is a song from the 2010 Tamil feature film Goa, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja and performed by Andrea Jeremiah and Ajeesh, the winner of the second season of the reality-based singing competition Airtel Super Singer. The song, with lyrics by Gangai Amaran, was released as part of the...
for the soundtrack
Goa (soundtrack)
Goa is the soundtrack album by Yuvan Shankar Raja to the 2010 romantic comedy film Goa, directed by Venkat Prabhu that stars Jai, Vaibhav, Premji Amaran, Sneha, Piaa Bajpai and Melanie Marie Jobstreibitzer and is produced by Soundarya Rajinikanth's Ocher Studios...
of the Tamil
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
film, Goa
Goa (film)
Goa is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu, who with the project, directed his third film following two previous successes...
.
Season 3
The auditions were successfully held in various parts of Tamil Nadu. Then the top 5 Singers were moved into the new Grand Set. The new set was a new one for Airtel Super Singer. The season was hosted by Divya. Saicharan won the competition (on audience votes and not by the judges score) and his prize was a house worth 40 Lakhs given by Temple green Arun Excelo, in oragadam. Santhosh was 1st Runner Up and won a car as his prize. Sathya PrakashSathya Prakash
Sathya Prakash is an Indian singer, discovered in the music talent show, Vijay TV's Airtel Super Singer during its 3rd Season. A noted Carnatic Singer since childhood and disciple of Sri Chandrasekar Bhagavathar based out of Coimbatore, has cultured and tuned his voice to perfection...
(adjudged to be the best performance in finals by the judges.They were badly disappointed and emotional with the final results, as they considered Sathya Prakash
Sathya Prakash
Sathya Prakash is an Indian singer, discovered in the music talent show, Vijay TV's Airtel Super Singer during its 3rd Season. A noted Carnatic Singer since childhood and disciple of Sri Chandrasekar Bhagavathar based out of Coimbatore, has cultured and tuned his voice to perfection...
to be deserving the winning title) won 2nd Runner Up and his prize was 3 lakhs (IND). And Pooja Vaidyanath
Pooja Vaidyanath
Pooja Vaidyanath is a Indian singer and one of the finalist of reality singing competition, Airtel Super Singer . She earned an opportunity to sing for music director James Vasanthan.- Competitions :...
was 3rd Runner Up and her prize was 1 lakh (IND).
Permanent Judges: Sujatha, Unnikrishnan, Srinivas
Srinivas
Srinivas/Sreenivas/Shrinivas/Shreenivas is a common given name for males in India. The word Srinivas is combination of two Sanskrit words, Sri and nivas . Sri means 'radiance' or 'diffusing light'; nivas means 'place of residence'...
.
Audition Judges: Harish Raghavendra
Harish Raghavendra
Harish Raghavendra is an Indian vocalist and actor from Chennai, India. His real name is Harish Ram Srinivas & son to a photographer P.V Raghavendran...
, S.P.Sailaja, Pop Shalini
Pop shalini
Shalini Singh popularly called as Pop Shalini is a singer from Tamil Nadu, India.Shalini Singh popularly known as Pop Shalini was one of the first teenagers to release an album when she was only 13. She has sung over 500 songs in various Indian languages for Indian films...
, Mahathi
Mahathi
Mahathi is an award-winning Indian playback singer singing predominantly in Tamil. She is also a Direct B High graded artiste of the All India Radio.-As playback singer:...
, Nithyasree Mahadevan
Nithyasree Mahadevan
Dr. Nithyasree Mahadevan, also previously referred to as S. Nithyashri, is an eminent Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. Nithyasree's paternal grandmother, D. K. Pattammal, and her granduncle, D. K...
, Sowmya
Sowmya
Sowmya is a given name for males or females. It means "That which is born of Soma". Soma means Chandra, the lunar deity. Sowmya therefore means Budha, because Budha is said to be the son of Chandra. Soumya also means shubhagrahas or beneficial....
, Malgudi Subha
Malgudi Subha
Malgudi Subha is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded songs in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. In a career spanning for two decades, she sang more than 2500 songs....
, and Unni Menon
Unni Menon
Unni Menon is an Indian film playback singer. He has sung over 3000 songs in South Indian languages like Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. In the early part of his career, he spent many years as a low-profile playback singer. The turning point in his career came when he sang the song "Pudhu...
.
| Contestants | |
| Season 1 (2006) | |
| Nikhil Mathew Nikhil Mathew Nikhil Mathew is a singer from Kerala, India. In 2006, he won the Airtel Super Singer reality show. As the show's winner he won a chance to sing a song for music director Harris Jayaraj - Enadhuyire along with Chinmayee, Sadhana Sargam, Sowmya Raoh for the Tamil film Bheema... |
Winner |
| Season 2 Airtel Super Singer 2008 The second season of Airtel Super Singer premiered on July 7, 2008. Judges for the show are Sujatha, Unnikrishnan and Srinivas. Chinmayi was the host of the show until January 2009 and was followed by Hemamalini and Yugendran Vasudevan Nair. The voice trainer is Ananth Vaidyanathan.Ajeesh won the... (2008) |
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| Ajeesh Ajeesh Ajeesh is an Indian playback singer from Tamil Nadu. He was the winner of the second season of the reality-based singing competition Airtel Super Singer. The winner was to be given a chance to sing a song for music director Yuvan Shankar Raja... |
Winner |
| Prasanna | Eliminated in Finals |
| Ranjani | Eliminated in Finals |
| Ravi | Runner-up Winner |
| Renu | 3rd Place Winner |
| Season 3 (2011) | |
| Sai Charan | Winner |
| Santhosh | 1st Runner |
| Sathya Prakash Sathya Prakash Sathya Prakash is an Indian singer, discovered in the music talent show, Vijay TV's Airtel Super Singer during its 3rd Season. A noted Carnatic Singer since childhood and disciple of Sri Chandrasekar Bhagavathar based out of Coimbatore, has cultured and tuned his voice to perfection... |
2nd Runner |
| Pooja | 3rd Runner |
External links
- Airtel Super Singer Official Website (owned by STAR VijaySTAR VijaySTAR Vijay is a popular Indian entertainment channel broadcasting in Tamil. The channel is also available in several other nations as well. The channel is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...
)