A. L. Raghavan

A.L. Raghavan is a famous playback singer and an actor in Tamil film industry. He was born in the year 1933. Raghavan started his career in the year 1947 as an actor. He played as Lord Krishna in a couple of films, Krishna Vijayam and Sudarshanam. Raghavan has an extreme talent in singing a female voice. Chidambaram Jayaraman was the one, who introduced Raghavan to the cinema industry. He asked Raghavan to sing in a female voice for Kumari Kamala Kumari Kamala is an Indian dancer and actress. She >> Read More... for the film, Vijayakumari. Raghavan did it extremely well and garnered the appreciation from the audiences.

He has sung under the music composition of the best music composers including “ M S Viswanathan M.S.Viswanathan, who is fondly known as M.S.V., wa >> Read More... ,” “Ramamoorthy,” “K. V. Mahadevan,” Dakshinamoorthy, “T. R. Pappa” and “ Ghantasala Ghantasala, whose full name is Ghantasala Venkates >> Read More... .” He had also sung a few songs with the next generation musician, Maestro Isaignani “Ilayaraja.” Hello My Dear Raami from “Pudhayal” was one among the memorable songs of Raghavan. He sang the song along with Chandrababu and it was a super hit. A.L. Raghavan has sung many songs along with “P Susheela, “S. Janaki,” “K. Jamunarani” and “Jikki.”

In 1961, he sang Kaayame Idhu Poiyada with “T M Soundarrajan” for the film, Kungumam. It is one among the popular songs of TMS Hitlist. Andru Oomai Pennalo sung by Raghavan with “P Susheela” in Paarthal Pasi Theerum was a super hit song. The song is a favorite one till now for the music lovers. After the voice of “A.M. Rajah,” Raghavan’s voice perfectly matched Gemini Ganesan Born in 1920, Gemini Ganesan, originally known as >> Read More... . In 1964, Raghavan sang a song with “L. R. Eswari” for Vettaikaran, an “ M G Ramachandran M G Ramachandran was a demigod for his fans. And h >> Read More... ” movie.

The song Seetu Kattu Raja was a stylish one and was trending on those days. Besides singing Tamil songs, Raghavan proved his excellence in Malayalam and Kannada too. He had worked with Viswanathan – Ramamoorthy in many films. Although he had not sung a lot of solos, his combination works are lauded well. After 1980 Raghavan didn’t sing any song. In 2014, he was offered to sing a song under the composition of the youngster Sean Roldan Sean Roldan is an upcoming Tamil musician and his >> Read More... for the film, Aadama Jaichomada Click to look into! >> Read More... . Raghavan has also worked in a TV Serial titled “ Alaigal Alaigal is a successful mega serial telecasted in >> Read More... ” in 2001 – 2003.

The serial telecasted in Sun TV also had “M. N. Nambiar” along with him. Raghavan married the popular character artist “ M N Rajam Madurai Narasimha Achary Rajam is a versatile actr >> Read More... ” on 2nd May 1960. The couple is blessed with two children, Brahmalakshman, who was born in 1963 and Nalina Meenakshi, who was born in 1969.