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Gender: Male

Place of birth: Freehold Township, New Jersey, United States

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Movie Involvements: 17

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Most Famous Work

Biography

Devan Ekambaram (born 25 December) is an Indian American film playback singer, actor and composer. He began his career as a playback singer in Tamil films and later branched out to many other south Indian languages as well like Telugu, Kannada and has sung for over 500 films. Devan began his singing career in the year 1999, when he received an unexpected call from Academy Award winning composer A. R. Rahman's assistants for a voice audition. He then, went on to record his maiden song "O Maria" for the film Kadhalar Dhinam along with Yugendran. The song proved to be a hit among all sections and thereafter he received several offers from many other Southern music directors. Devan's second huge hit came in his short piece mellifluous rendition in "Ore Nyabagam" from Minnale (2001) composed by Harris Jayaraj. Thereafter he sang many popular tracks in Tamil and Telugu films under the compositions of Ilayaraja, Vidhyasagar, Deva, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Karthik Raja and others. The song "Anbil Avan" from Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa composed by A. R. Rahman ruled the music chart for months. Most of his songs are for the music director Harris Jayaraj. And all the songs which he had sung for him have received a good reception from the audience. Recently he has sung a peppy number called "Nahna na Na" for Director Venkat Prabhu's Biriyani Which was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja has become a viral hit from the day it was released. Two different remix versions of the song called "New Jack Swing Mix" and "The Extended Mix" also received a massive response. His latest song is " Yennai Arindhaal " from the movie Yennai Arindhaal where he again sings for the music director Harris Jayaraj. This song was written by lyricist Thamarai. It is another peppy number.

Most Famous Work

Kannathil Muthamittal
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8

Kannathil Muthamittal

(2002) Playback Singer
Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu
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7

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

(2006) Playback Singer
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa
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8

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa

(2010) Playback Singer
Minnale
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7

Minnale

(2001) Playback Singer
Puthiya Geethai
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5

Puthiya Geethai

(2003) Playback Singer
Thiruda Thirudi
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6

Thiruda Thirudi

(2003) Playback Singer
Bose
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5

Bose

(2004) Playback Singer
Winner
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6

Winner

(2003) Playback Singer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2010 Guest Appearance in "Happy" Song
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Sound


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