Anand Narayan is a television personality and an upcoming playback singer

Playback singer

A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras, while the actual singer does not appear on screen.-South Asia:...

, from India.

He shot into fame as a presenter-cum-performer on Amrita TV

Amrita TV

Amrita TV, launched in 2005, as a 24-hour Malayalam, general entertainment & news satellite channel with a global footprint, has been honoured with 54 State Awards for Excellence in Television—the only channel in India to be bestowed with such a recognition in just two years since inception...

 Let's Dance http://amritatv.com/ld, the first-ever dance reality show for pairs on malayalam television. Formerly he has been noted as a great performer on other TV music reality shows such as Amrita TV Super Star Global http://www.amritatv.com/ssg/, Idea Star Singer

Idea Star Singer

Idea Star Singer is a popular Malayalam music reality-television competition, broadcast on the Malayalam channel Asianet and is sponsored by Idea Cellular Limited. The current season of the show is aired from 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m [8.00 pm to 9.30 pm from Monday, 19th July 2010],, Monday...

 2006 and SS Music

SS Music

SS Music or the Southern Spice Music channel is a music channel based in Chennai, India. It is a multilingual English medium channel and mainly airs Western Pop and music from Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, though sometimes Bollywood songs are played.Several of SS Music's VJs have been...

 Voice Hunt.

He has also worked as show-host on Kiran TV

Kiran TV

Kiran TV is the second Malayalam channel from Sun Network, which is based in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. It is a 24 hour Music channel, with more than 12 hours of live film songs and SMS messaging facility. The channel also airs one movie everyday and plays film songs regularly.Vijith NairArun...

 and Asianet Plus

Asianet

Asianet Communications Limited is an Indian media conglomerate jointly owned by STAR TV and Jupiter Entertainment. Formed in 1991 and headquartered in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in the south Indian state of Kerala, the company owns several television channels including Asianet, the first...

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Hailing from the city of Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...

, (Kerala, India), he did his schooling at Loyola School and pursued his B.Tech degree in Computer Science from SCT College of Engineering. After graduation he went on to become a software engineer, based out of Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

. Presently he is a popular stage performer, singer and presenter

Presenter

A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

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His first song as a playback singer is Mamboo paadam, from the movie Orkuka Vallappozhum.

External links

• Anand's first malayalam movie song