Siddharth Menon

Siddharth Menon (Malayalam: സിദ്ധാർത്ഥ് മേനോൻ; Marathi: सिद्धार्थ मेनन; born 1 July 1989) is a playback singer and Film Actor from Mumbai, India. Menon has rendered some film songs but is most popular for his band Thaikkudam Bridge. His rendition of "Mandaracheppundo" from the movie Dasharatham for a musical show "Music Mojo" in the Malayalam channel Kappa TV topped the music charts.

Personal life

Siddharth Menon was born in a Mumbai-settled Kerala family of Sathyanathan Pariyadath and Sheela on 1 July 1989, and was brought up in Mumbai. His father, Sathyanathan, is a former employee of an airline company and hails from Irinjalakkuda, Trissur. His mother, Sheela, works with the income tax department in Mumbai and hails from Vaikom, Kottayam. He has an elder brother Sharad Menon, who works in the UK as a scientist. He studied in Vivek Vidyalaya High School, Goregaon, Maharashtra. He attended Vivek College of Commerce where he received a degree in commerce. After graduation he decided to study western classical music and joined A R Rahman’s music college, KM Music Conservatory in Chennai . At present, he resides in Kochi, Kerala.

Career

Siddharth Menon grew up in Mumbai with his Malayali parents, attending competitions and youth festivals and winning prizes for music. All he has to show is about a few days he attended in Ajivasan Music Academy in Mumbai. But that never dampened his passion for singing.

He performed in the Sony TV reality show, X Factor India, and his group Nirmitee was the finalist of the show. The other members in the group were Vian Fernandez, Pranil More and Ranjana Raja.

His first cousin Govind Menon composed songs for the musical show "Music Mojo" in Kappa TV, and "Nostalgia" (the reincarnation of evergreen Malayalam songs), in which Siddharth sang "Mandharachepundo", became a hit on YouTube. They then started the musical band Thaikkudam Bridge.^[1]

Siddharth made his debut in playback singing with the song "Tharangal" in the 2013 film North 24 Kaatham. ^[2]

His debut into the Malayalam film industry was through the movie Rockstardirected by V.K.Prakash in the year 2015.He has also acted and sung in Musical albumYelove along with Shreya Ghoshal, the song was released on June 7 2014. As of 2014, Yelove has achieved 1 million views on YouTube . The next year he again became a part of album Yami.

Awards

Filmography

Film songs

Other songs

References

External links

• Siddharth Menon's official Facebook page
• Siddharth Menon