DAM999, the new Hollywood movie by Sohan Roy has included the prominent play back singers of the Indian film industry to sing the tunes. These prominent personalities include, Shreya Ghoshal, Hariharan, K S Chithra, and P Jayachandran.
Shreya Ghoshal is the young talented female play back singer of the Indian Film Industry. She is a four times National award winner for the best play back singer female for various movies. She won her first National Film Award for the song 'Bairi Piya' in Devadas. Followed by that she has won several awards in the Northern and the Southern film industry, she has worked with Ilayaraja, A.R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Himesh Reshammiya, Mani Sharma, M.M. Keeravani, Nadeem Sharvan, Anand-Milind, Shantanu Mitra, Shankar-Ehsan-Loy, Pritam, Vishal-Shekar, Hamasalekha, Mano Murthy, Gurukiran, Harikrishna, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Harris Jayaraj and the list goes on.
Hariharan, who has shown his talent through ghazals, albums and also film songs has won National award for best play back singer in the year 1998 and 2009. He is also honored with Padma Shri for his extraordinary talent. He has sung more than 500 Tamil songs and his album Colonial Cousins has gained attraction of the whole world. "Gulfam" one among his outstanding ghazal album won him the Diva award for the best album of the , 1994.
K S Chithra popularly known as Nightingale of South India has won six National awards for best female play back singer. This prominent personality has sung for Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Hindi, Assamese, and Bengali films. She was honored with Padma Shri in the year 2005. Apart from the National awards she has also won several regional awards. Chithra was introduced to the Malayalam play back singing in the year 1979 by M. G. Radhakrishnan.
P. Jayachandran , one among the prominent play back singer of India has won a National Award and several Keala and Tamil Nadu state awards for his extraordinary talent in singing. Jayachandran got his first state award in the year 1972. He has recorded his songs in five languages namely Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi.
These four singers will sing for the movie DAM999. This movie will surely mark a turning point in the careers of these four singers as they will be introduced to the international audience.