Megha_(singer)

Megha (singer)

Megha (singer)

Indian singer


Harini Ramachandran, professionally known as Megha (born 18 March 1987) is a Tamil playback singer, singing predominantly in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. She is also a co-founder of School of Excellence, that offers NLP programs and models.[1]

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Early life

Megha is a great grand daughter of Papanasam Sivan, a Carnatic composer.[2] Born in Chennai, she relocated to Bangalore where she did most of her schooling. She did her bachelor's degree in Commerce in Chennai and pursued her master's degree in Human Resources whilst making a foray into the field of playback singing in 2007. She has completed grade 8 from Trinity College London in Western classical music under the guidance of renowned musician Augustine Paul from Chennai.[3]

Career

Megha is a playback singer in the South Indian film industry. She was introduced into the film industry by music director Vijay Antony in the film Naan Avanillai (2007), and has worked with music directors including Ilaiyaraaja, A. R. Rahman, Harris Jayaraj, Devi Sri Prasad, Vijay Antony and D. Imman. After finding success in singing, she developed an interest in learning neuro-linguistic programming techniques. She got an opportunity to learn it from John Grinder, the founder of NLP.[4] To pursue her interest further, in 2011 she co-founded School of Excellence to offer programs on NLP modelling to overcome personal issues and depressions.[5] After exhibiting NLP sessions and programs for individuals, she along with co-founder of School of Excellence started working on conducting events and sessions to cover mass people, including NLP sessions for underprivileged kids of missionary schools in Mumbai to boost confidence and overcome personal challenges.[6] During this phase, Megha and his business partner started developing and innovating on a new technology for personal development called Excellence Installation Technology (EIT). She has been working on developing a team of EIT experts, trained by them to provide business, health and legacy acceleration services through personal transformation using EIT across the country.[1]

Live performances

Megha has performed live in various concerts, star nites[7][8] and with music directors such as Harris Jayaraj on the Concert (world) tour – "Harris: On The Edge".[9][10]

She actively performs in western classical concerts in Chennai and with the Madras Musical Association choir.[11][12]

Discography

Tamil

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Telugu

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Kannada

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Malayalam

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Awards

  • Kannadasan Award – Ajanta Fine Arts
  • 2010: Nominated, Vijay Music Award for Best Song of the Masses – "Singham Singham" from Singam

References

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  3. "Megha (Singer) – Harini Ramachandran | Icelebs". Icelebs.wordpress.com. 28 December 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  4. Ankita Shreeram. "The more flexible you are,the more power you have over the other person". Times of India. Archived from the original on 19 June 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  5. "Cultural extravaganza at NIT Warangal from tomorrow". The Hindu. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  6. "Spring Spree '07". www.springspree.org. Archived from the original on 28 January 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  7. "Harris On The Edge". The Hindu. 24 December 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  8. Sudhish Kamath (10 October 2011). "Music on the edge". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  9. "The Madras Musical Association". Mma.ind.in. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  10. Singer Megha (29 August 2011). "Music, Me and You: The Kodai Trip with the MMA Choir". Singermegha.blogspot.in. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  11. "Help Page". ThiraiPaadal.com. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  12. "MusicIndiaOnline – Indian Music for Free!". Musicindiaonline.co. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  13. "Naan Avanillai Music Review songs lyrics". IndiaGlitz.com. 11 April 2007. Archived from the original on 15 April 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  14. "iTunes Store". itunes.apple.com. November 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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  16. "Mr. Perfect Songs – Telugu Movie Songs". Raaga.com. Archived from the original on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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