Mallikarjun

Mallikarjun is an Indian playback singer and composer who mostly sings in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada language films. After emerging as one of the semi-finalists in the first edition of singing competition Padutha Theeyaga, he went on to become a playback singer in the South Indian film industry. He is married to playback singer Gopika Poornima. He is very well known as an energetic stage performer and ardent fan of Telugu actor Chiranjeevi.
Personal life.
Mallikarjun's father is an engineer in the Andhra Pradesh Irrigation department. He originally hails from Anakapalle of Visakhapatnam district. Mallikarjun was born when his father got transferred to Srisailam, a temple town. He was named after the local god Lord Mallikarjuna of Srisailam temple. His mother is a housewife. He has started learning music at the age of 9 and got recognition by padutha teeyaga musical competition. He has one sister.
He met his co-singer Gopika Poornima and fell in love with each other and got married on 10 February 2008 in Simhachalam. They have one daughter named Samhitha. Currently they are living in Chennai.
Career.
Mallikarjun made his debut as a playback singer along with Gopika Poornima in Chennai for the movie Singanna on 23 February 1997 composed by Vandemataram Srinivas. He has sung more than 300 songs in films and 2000 private devotional albums. He also assisted renowned music composers like Koti for 1 year and Mani Sharma for 8 years. He has the prospect of singing for all the heroes in Telugu Film Industry. He made his debut as a Composer for the movie Kathi Kantha Rao in 2010. He is one of the core singer in the musical band "SUSWANA" along with Gopika Poornima and Parthu formed in 2016 and performed in countries like India (Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Tirupati, Hospet), United States (Dallas, Texas), Kuwait And Oman (Muscat).Mallikarjun regularly sings in "Swarabhishekam" program telecast in ETV on every Sunday.
Awards.
He got the Nandi Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 2003 for the serial Sukhadukhalu (ETV) in the TV Section .
Concerts.
Mallikarjun has done more than 200 shows across the world. He also participated in various musical concerts in the countries like United States of America, United Kingdom(England, Ireland, Scotland), Australia, New Zealand, Africa (South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania), (Germany), Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Arab World (Kuwait, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain) with legendary singers like Padmabhushan S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. P. Sailaja and others.
Performances.
Music concerts for TANA (Telugu Association of North America) in 2007 and 2013 along with famous music composer Mani Sharma.