Karthik, born on November 7, 1980, is an Indian playback singer and composer. He initially began his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since established himself as a prominent playback singer. With a repertoire spanning over 8,000 songs, he has lent his voice to various projects in 15 different Indian languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia, Bengali, Marathi, and Hindi.

