THE MAGIC VOICE......KK

Krishna Kumar Kunnath  or  K.K. (as he is popularly known as) was born on August 23, 1968 in Delhi in a Malayali family. His parents are C. S. Nair and Kanakavalli. He was brought up in New Delhi. He studied at Delhi's Mount St. Mary school. He started singing and the age of two and was a part of his college rock band. He has been greatly influenced by the singer Kishore Kumar and music director R. D. Burman. After graduating from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University in commerce. KK worked for eight months as marketing executive in the hotel industry. After few years, in 1994, he moved to Mumbai in search for his career.

In 1994, he gave his demo tape to Louis Banks, Ranjit Barot and Leslie Lewis to get a break in the music arena. Finally, he got a call from Leslie Lewis to sing a one-minute jingle for UTV for Santogen Suiting ad which kick started his career. He considers Leslie Lewis as his mentor for giving him his first jingle to sing in Mumbai.In a span of four years, he has sung more than 3,500 jingles in 11 Indian languages.

His dream to sing for a Bollywood movie materialized when Vishal Bharadwaj asked him to sing "Chod Aaye Hum" in Gulzar's Maachis (1996). KK was introduced as a playback singer with A.R. Rahman's hit song "College Styley" and "Hello Dr." from Kadir's Kadhal Desam and then "Strawberry Kannae" from AVM Productions's musical film Minsara Kanavu (1997).

He appeared in "Josh of India" song for the support of Indian Cricket Team during Cricket World Cup 1999.

Then, the debut album of KK “PAL”, arranged, composed and produced by Leslie Lewis of Colonial Cousins, released in 1999 from Sony Music. The lyrics was written by Mehboob. All the tracks have been sung by KK. After its release, it was an instant hit, and brought a lot of recognition to KK. The songs - "Aap Ki Dua" and "Pal" in no time ruled the lips of the youngsters and KK's quick march to celebrity-hood commenced. “PAL” is the album for which KK got the prestigious Screen award as best singer.

But what catapulted him into the big league was the wildly popular "Tadap Tadap Ke" in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999).

Till now, KK has sung more than 500 songs in Hindi and more than 200 songs in Telugu,  Bengali, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam languages.  He has worked with leading music composers such as Rajesh Roshan, Ilayaraja, Vishal Bhardwaj, Ismail Darbar, Himesh Reshammiya, Anu Malik, Anand-Milind, Vishal-Shekhar, M. M. Keeravani, Vidyasagar, Mani Sharma, A. R. Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Harris Jayaraj, Deva, Devi Sri Prasad, Amit Trivedi, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Pritam Chakraborty, Deepak Dev, Jeet Gannguli, Viju Shah, Jatin-Lalit, Sachin-Jigar, Raghav Sachar, Anand Raj Anand,Salim-Sulaiman, Sajid-Wajid, Sharib-Toshi, Nadeem- Shravan, Mithoon, Siddharth-Suhaas, Sachin Gupta, Shamir Tandon, Sandesh Shandilya and etc. KK has sung many songs with Alka Yagnik, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Udit Narayan, Shilpa Rao, Tulsi Kumar,Dominique Cerejo, Shaan and others.

On 22 January 2008, KK released his second album Humsafar after a gap of eight years. The songs "Aasmaan Ke", "Yeh Kahan Mil Gaye Hum" and "Rain Bhai [Maajhi]" are famous songs from this album, besides, KK had also sung an English Rock Ballad "Cineraria". The title track, "Humsafar" is a mix of English and Hindi lyrics.

 Humsafar has 10 songs, out of which eight have been composed by KK. The other two songs were taken from his previous album Pal.

KK has also sung many television serial songs like Just Mohabbat,Shaka Laka Boom Boom, Kuch Jhuki Si Palkein, Kavyanjali, Just Dance etc. KK appeared on television too. He was invited as jury member for a talent hunt show Fame Gurukul.

KK participated in the latest musical venture of MTV India Coke Studio. There he sang one qawwali Chadta Suraj along with Sabri Brothers and a recomposed version of his exquisite track Tu Aashiqui Hai from movie Jhankaar Beats. He also came in Sureeli Baat in Aaj Tak Chanel.

He has also performed in Sony Mix TV Show and MTV UnpluggedSeason 3, aired on MTV 11 January 2014.KK was in Dubai for his concert 'Salaam Dubai 2014'in April. He also did recent concerts in Goa, Dubai & Chennai.

He has lent his voice to the biggest hit song this year (2014) "Tune maari entriyaan" among several others in the film Gunday.

KK married his childhood sweetheart Jyothy Krishna in 1991. His son Nakul sang a song "Masti" from his latest album Humsafar with him. KK also has a daughter named Taamara.

KK’s melodious voice has helped gain a certain genre of songs… his forte is Love songs and his voice almost always touches a chord in every listeners heart. He is truly the next generation Kishore Kumar. With no formal training in singing, he still stands tall among all the other talented playback singers of Bollywood.

Awards and honours

Filmfare Awards
2000	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Tadap Tadap" (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam)	Nominated
2003	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Bardaasht" (Humraaz)
2005	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Dus Bahane" (Dus)
2006	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai" (Gangster)
2008	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Ajab Si" (Om Shanti Om)
2009	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Zara Sa" (Jannat)
	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Khuda Jane" (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Screen Awards
1999	Best Playback Singer – Male (Non-Film Music)[6]	"Pal" (Pal)	Won
2004	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Awarapan Banjarapan" (Jism)	Nominated
	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Tu Aashiqui Hai" (Jhankaar Beats)
2006	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Dus Bahane" (Dus)
2007	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai" (Gangster)
2009	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Khuda Jaane" (Bachna Ae Haseeno)	Won
Zee Cine Awards
2005	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Dus Bahane" (Dus)	Nominated
2007	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai" (Gangster)
2011	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Zindagi Do Pal Ki"(Kites)
IIFA Awards
2004	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Jhankar Beats" (Jhankaar Beats)	Nominated
2006	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Dus Bahane" (Dus)
2007	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai" (Gangster)
2008	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Ajab Si" (Om Shanti Om)
2009	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Khuda Jaane" (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Apsara Awards
2008	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Ajab Si" (Om Shanti Om)	Nominated
2009	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Khuda Jane" (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
2011	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Sajde" (Khatta Meetha)
Gima Awards
2011	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Zindgi Do Pal Ki" (Kites)	Nominated
2013	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Tujhe Sochta Hoon" (Jannat 2)
BIG Star Entertainment Awards
2011	Best Playback Singer – Male	"Zindgi Do Pal Ki" (Kites)	Nominated

                                                                                                               Source : wikipedia