Hariharan

Hariharan is an Indian playback, bhajan and ghazal singer born to Tamil family in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, who predominantly sang in Tamil and Hindi languages. Also he sang almost 15000 notable songs in 10 regional languages some of them being Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Sinhala and Bhojpuri films. He is an established Ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Award winner.

Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis, formed Colonial Cousins, a two-member band. They have cut many private music albums and also scored music for few feature films in Tamil cinema and Bollywood cinema.

On 9 October 2021 at 13:47, Hariharan and Late Gulshan Kumar’s Hanuman Chalisa recorded under the label of T-Series crossed 2-billion views mark on YouTube, making it the first devotional song in the world to do so.