Singer karthik Biography:
>Karthik developed an interest in music, early in his life.
>He is a trained Carnatic music vocalist and has been training since his school days.
>He was part of a college band and regularly participated in IIT Madras Fest '[Saarang]'.
>An ardent fan of [A. R. Rahman], Karthik's dream was to meet Rahman and sing for him. Playback singer [Srinivas (singer)Srinivas], who collaborated often with Rahman was Karthik's close friend's cousin.
>Srinivas encouraged Karthik to look at singing as a career, which prompted Karthik to resume his singing lessons.
> One year later, Srinivas recommended Karthik's name to Rahman, who needed fresh voices for [[backing vocalist]]s for a song from ''[Pukar (2000 film)Pukar]''.
>Karthik eventually got the opportunity and recorded for the song. >Having spent over a year being a [backing vocalist], Karthik got his break during the re-recording of ''[One 2 Ka 4]''. For the background score, [A. R. Rahman] wanted a high-pitched [alap] and he eventually chose Karthik to sing the alap.
>Soon after, Rahman asked him to sing the song "Nendhukittaen" from the film ''[Star (2001 film)|Star].
Karthik has sung a number of songs for many popular music directors, including [A. R. Rahman], [Ilaiyaraaja], [Vidyasagar (music director)|Vidyasagar], [Yuvan Shankar Raja], [Harris Jeyaraj] and [Manisharma]. Karthik has sung songs in several languages – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada.
"Ennaku Oru Girlfriend" from the Tamil film ''[Boys (2003 film)|Boys]'' was one of the biggest hits of the year
>As was "Oru Maalai" (''[Ghajini (2005 film)|Ghajini]''; 2005).
> His songs for Telugu films for
> ''Kotha Bangaru Lokam'' (Nijanga Nenenaa),
>''Happy Days'' (Arare Arare, Oh My Friend),
>"Badhulu Tochanai" (''[[Mr. Perfect (film)|Mr.Perfect]]''),
> "Manase Guvvai" (''[[Naan Mahaan Alla (2010 film)|Naa Peru Shiva]]''),
>"Oh Oh My Friend" (''[[Oh My Friend]]''),
>"Meghama" (''[[Engeyum Eppodhum|Journey]]''),
> "Yevvaro" (''[[Bodyguard (2012 film)|Bodyguard (Telugu)]]'') are very popular.
>His other popular songs include "Ava Enna" from the ''[[Vaaranam Aayiram]]'' (2009), the title track from ''[[Unnale Unnale]]'', "Behka" from ''Ghajini'' and "Alle Alle" from the Kannada film ''Savaari''.
