Kanmani is a Malayalam music album that was released in the Indian State of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 and the United States

United States

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. The album features lead Malayalam singers such as Madhu Balakrishnan

Madhu Balakrishnan

Madhu Balakrishnan is an Indian playback singer, who sings in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages.-Biography:Madhu Balakrishnan is from Tripunithura, Cochin, Kerala in India. A Graded artist in All India Radio and Doordarshan, he has performed with all major playback singers in Kerala...

, Vidhu Prathap

Vidhu Prathap

Vidhu Prathap is an Indian playback singer born on September 1, 1980. He has sung many songs in over a hundred and fifty films in mostly Malayalam and a few in Tamil, Kannada and Telugu languages...

, Manjari, Franco, 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...

, and Jassie Gift

Jassie Gift

Jassie Gift is a Malayalam film music composer and singer from Thiruvananthapuram, India. He became famous after his song "Lajjavathiye" in the film 4 the people.-Biography:...

. It also includes the talents of flautist Prasad Bhandarkar, a pupil of maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian classical instrumentalist. He is a player of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is a classicist who has made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.-Early life:Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in...

, and violinist Anuradha Sridhar, the niece of violin maestro Lalgudi Jayaraman

Lalgudi Jayaraman

Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer is a well-known Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer.-Early life and background:...

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The songs have a strong melody base with simple yet powerful lyrics. The music album is complemented by the visualizations to the songs. Kanmani stands out as a phenomenon that was mostly marketed via the web. It is one of the first Malayalam albums to tap into the power of video sharing sites like YouTube

YouTube

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 and social networks like orkut

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