Srinivas

Srinivas is a playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He has also worked independently as a music composer, working on films and private albums. Srinivas was born in Ambasamudram, Tamil Nadu, though his family moved and has since then lived his entire childhood in Thiruvananthapuram. He learnt Carnatic music from his aunt/guru Padma Narayanan, The great Carnatic stalwarts of the 60s influenced his early days.. After which Hindi film music chiefly that of Kishore Kumar & R.D.Burman deeply influenced him in his childhood days.{Later on it was the ghazals of Mehdi Hassan which redefined his singing[citation needed]