Malabar Gopalan Nair Sreekumar (born 25 May 1957), better known as M.G. Sreekumar is an Indian playback singer, composer, music producer, television presenter and film producer, who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema.
He has sung more than 25000 songs in various Indian languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and Sanskrit.
He owns a music company named KMG Musics and the Saregama School of Music in Thiruvananthapuram.
Sreekumar has won several awards, including two National Film Awards, three Kerala State Film Awards and 5 Filmfare Awards South.
Sreekumar was born on May 25, 1957, at Haripad, in Alappuzha district, Kerala as the younger son of music composer and harmonist Malabar Gopalan Nair and Harikatha exponent Kamalakshi Amma.
He is the younger brother of popular music director M. G. Radhakrishnan and popular Carnatic musician Dr. K. Omanakkutty.
1983
Sreekumar made his debut in the Malayalam movie Coolie (1983) Directed by Ashok Kumar.
1988
The Malayalam movie Chithram (1988) directed by Priyadarshan, starring Mohanlal, was the first where Sreekumar sang all the songs.
He has sung more than 35,000 songs for films in Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu.
Sreekumar and Lekha, his future wife, first saw each other in 1988 at Thycaud Dharma Sastha Temple, Thiruvananthapuram, but they met each other only few days later after a concert.
Gradually, they developed friendship and later began living together.
2000
Sreekumar and Lekha married on 14 January 2000 at the Mookambika Temple, Kollur.
Beside films, Sreekumar has composed many devotional albums.
Majority of his songs are written by Rajeev Alunkal and Gireesh Puthenchery.
National Film Awards:
Kerala State Film Awards:
Kerala Film Critics Awards
Filmfare Awards South:
Asianet Film Awards:
Surya TV Awards:
Other awards:
2002
He worked as music director in Malayalam films such as Chathurangam (2002) and Thandavam (2002), Priyadarshan's Kanchivaram (2008), Mohanlal's Alexander the Great and Oru Naal Varum.
He anchored a TV show named SaReGaMa on Asianet and was a judge for the reality show Idea Star Singer.
Now he is a judge in Top Singer on Flowers TV.
His appointment as chairman of Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi by the LDF government of Kerala sparked controversy due to his close relations with its political rival BJP.
2016
He was also honoured with the Harivarasanam Award by the Government of Kerala in 2016.
