T. M. Krishna

Quick Facts

Full Name	T. M. Krishna
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Jan 22, 1976(1976-01-22)
Age	48
Birthplace	Chennai
Country	India
Birth City	Tamil Nadu
Horoscope	Capricorn

T. M. Krishna Biography

T. M. Krishna is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on January 22, 1976 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Krishna was born in Chennai on January 22nd, 1976 to the Tamil Brahmin family, the son of T. M. Rangachari and his wife Prema Rangachari. His maternal uncle and mother Sriram Subramaniam. Sriram Subramaniam founded and manage a school named Vidya Vanam for students from the tribal community and those who are not privileged located in Anaikatti, Tamil Nadu. Krishna is the great nephew to Congress political figure and Freedom Fighter T.T. Krishnamachari (former Indian finance minister and industrialist) who was one of the founders of the Madras Music Academy.

Krishna is part of the group who created the festival with an goal to heal art and aid in healing art by opening artists and art to new audiences and settings. The first festival was held in the month of January in Urur-Olcott Kuppam located in Chennai. In 2016, the festival was also designed as an opportunity to ease some of the suffering that people suffered from the floods of 2015, as well as a way to express gratitude to those who helped with relief, rescue , and rehabilitation efforts. In the present, the Urur Olcott Kuppam Vizha is now known as Chennai Kalai Theruvizha which is a brand new form of the organization that will soon be exploring new sites within the city, in partnership with local communities.

In the year 2016 he was awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for “his forceful commitment as artist and advocate to art’s power to heal India’s deep social divisions, breaking barriers of caste and class to unleash what music has to offer not just for some but for all”.

The Chennai Poromboke Paadal music video was released on 14 January 2017 on YouTube. An initiative by T.M.Krishna and environmental activist Nityanand Jayaraman – the Tamil song was written by Kaber Vasuki and composed by R. K. Shriramkumar, and the video was directed by Rathindran Prasad. The video featured Krishna performing in and around the Ennore creek and highlighted the environmental damage done to the creek by the power plant in that region. The music video trended on YouTube India for a week after its release becoming the first Carnatic song to trend on YouTube. The song’s title contained the word “Poromboke” which formerly meant land of the commons but has become a popular swear word. The music video also garnered attention for combining Tamil slang dialect with carnatic music. The song is a raga-malika and is based on the ragas Anandabhairavi, Begada, Hamir Kalyani, Devagandhari, Salagabhairavi and Sindhubhairavi.

Krishna’s career in performing began at 12 when he performed his first concert in The Spirit of Youth series organized by the Music Academy, Chennai (India). Krishna has since performed at various venues and festivals all over the world such as the Madras Music Academy, National Centre for the Performing Arts (India), John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay to mention some.

T. M. Krishna Net Worth

T. M. Krishna is one of the richest Singer from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, T. M. Krishna 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Thodur Madabusi Krishna (born 22 January, 1976) is known as a Carnatic singer, writer, activist, and author. As a singer He has introduced many changes to the quality and style of his performances, creating controversy in some circles. Being an active activist he’s been a champion of a variety of causes related to the environment as well as the caste system religion reform, communalism and reforms to social norms and more.

Krishna collaborated with rappers and gaana kuthu musicians in this music video of multiple genres to protest the multinational company Unilever’s double standards as well as its refusal to follow the internationally accepted standards for environmental protection in India. Produced by filmmaker Rathindra Prasad, this was an additional video following the first Kodaikanal Won’t video , which protested Unilever’s 2001 release of mercury that was toxic into Kodaikanal, a South Indian hill town of Kodaikanal and is believed to have poisoned the town’s forest workers as well as its inhabitants.

Among his awards are the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award (2016) in recognition of ‘his forceful commitment as artist and advocate to art’s power to heal India’s deep social divisions’, the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration (2017) for his services in promoting and preserving national integration in the country, and the Professor V. Aravindakshan Memorial Award (2017) for connecting Carnatic music with the common man.

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Who is T. M. Krishna Dating?

According to our records, T. M. Krishna married to Sangeetha Sivakumar. As of December 1, 2023, T. M. Krishna’s is not dating anyone.

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T. Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. T. M. Krishna celebrates birthday on January 22 of every year.