Shankar Mahadevan has carved a name for himself in the world of music with his debut album Breathless. An album that has made everyone sit up and take note of a man who can apparently sing an entire song in just one breath.

Shankar Mahadevan’s background is totally non - musical. Born in a Chembur (a Mumbai suburb) South Indian family, Shankar was lucky enough to be exposed to the right musical circle from childhood.

Shankar mahadevan is a qualified software engineer and he worked at Oracle Corporation for some time. Also was a part of the team that revolutionized the development of fourth generation computer languages, before he decided to give that all up and become a full-time singer. He is a part of a Swedish band called Mynta, whereby he travels to perform twice a year. Also performing in the Chinese Jazz festival, he considers quite important to him.

He sang breathless and everybody who listened to the song held their breath. Expectations were high form him. And Shankar Mahadevan did not let his fans down.

Shankar's career is breathlessly jingling forward with pauses just to bask in new glories.

Mahadevan has given many hit films and music albums. However his creativity hasn’t necessarily come from sitting by the lake and staring in the rainbow kind of situations. “Most of my songs are written when I am stuck in the traffic at link road. Song ‘Meri Zindagi Mein Ayee Ho Tum’ in Armaan was 100% composed in the car. You don’t even need a music instrument in hand to create music. It can be made while sitting on the commode also,” he laughs.

The 31 year old singer explains that he is happy with the way his film music has done.The versatile National Award winner (he can sing in 10 different languages) says there’s no formula for being a winner. He trusts his gut instinct and never follows any particular method to be a success. Today, he is one of the busiest musicians around.

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