wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/A_Hariharan.jpg.In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Award winner. He is an established Ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. Also he sang almost 15000 notable songs in 10 regional languages some of them being Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and Bhojpuri films. Hariharan (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback, bhajan and ghazal singer from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, who predominantly sang in Tamil and Hindi languages.
dbt:National_Film_Award_Best_Male_Playback_Singer.dbr:File:Launch_of_Colonial_Cousins’_album_‘Once_More’_(cropped).jpg.dbr:Kerala_State_Film_Award_for_Best_Singer.dbr:Nandi_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer.dbc:Tamil_Nadu_State_Film_Awards_winners.dbc:Recipients_of_the_Padma_Shri_in_arts.dbr:Tamil_Nadu_State_Film_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback.dbr:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer_–_Malayalam.dbr:Vijay_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer.dbr:National_Film_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer.dbc:Best_Male_Playback_Singer_National_Film_Award_winners.dbr:SIES_College_of_Arts,_Science_&_Commerce.dbr:Hariharan_(singer)_PersonFunction_1.On 9 October 2021 at 13:47, Hariharan and Late Gulshan Kumar's Hanuman Chalisa recorded under the label of T-Series crossed 2-billion views mark on YouTube, making it the first devotional song in the world to do so. They have cut many private music albums and also scored music for few feature films in Tamil cinema and Bollywood cinema. Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis, formed Colonial Cousins, a two-member band.