K.K. - The Indian Super Playback Singer

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Krishnakumar Kunnath (born August 23, 1970), also known as KK, is an Indian playback singer. In 1994, he gave his demo tape to Louis Banks, Ranjit Barot and Leslie Lewis to get a break in the music arena. He was called by UTV and he sung a jingle for Santogen Suiting ad.[9] In a span of four years, he has sung more than 3,500 jingles in 11 Indian languages. He considers Leslie Lewis as his mentor for giving him his first jingle to sing in Mumbai.[8] KK debuted as a playback singer with A. Rahman's hit song "Strawberry Kannae" from AVM Productions's musical film Minsara Kanavu (1997).[10] He got his Bollywood break with "Tadap Tadap Ke Is Dil" from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999).[10] However, prior to this song he had song a small portion of the song "Chod aaye hum" from Gulzar's Maachis and "Jab Bhi Koi Haseena" from Priyadarshan's Hera Pheri. Till now, KK has sung more than 500 songs in Hindi and more than 200 songs in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages.[11] He has worked with music composers such as Ilayaraja, Deva, Mani Sharma, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vidyasagar, Pritam, Vishal-Shekhar etc.