Showing all artists born at Jaffna

Luksimi Sivaneswaralingam is play back singer from Toronto, Canada.  Music Composer D Imman introduce a Tamil singing talent Luksimi at the Movie Bogan.

Niru, (born Nirmalan Nadarajah on January 13, 1980) is a Tamil music director and composer. He is renowned in Kollywood for both the sensuality of his melodies and the charisma of his work. From his rendition Netriunthom Engal Vitulilae with acclaimed tracks, such as Pattu Selai, Niru has become a popular musician.

He recently debuted in Tamil films as the music composer in the film "Kalabha Kadhalan".

Having found a passion for music at an early age, Niru discovered an affinity to all things musical. Though greatly adept at playing instruments, Niru found his forté lay in composing his own music and directing the celebrated musicians of the world.

In 1989, Niru moved to Paris, France, where he was in the tutelage of the Maison Populaire. There, he ameliorated and fine tuned his precision and skill for manipulating melodies. Niru graduated from SAE (Paris) in 2001, a prestigious institute with the links to Oxford, UK. Niru then progressed to study Western classical music at the Trinity College of Music, London.

Starting small, Niru initially began by composing jingles for advertisements, soon to be followed by a "nouvelle vague" which brought Tamil Pop to the forefront of music in France. His interest in pop music spurred him to compose for two albums, "Oru Parvai" and "Aalaiyin Karangal" in Paris, both of which proved to be illuminating. "Moongil Nila", album-extraordinaire and Niru's 3rd masterpiece encapsulated the vocal genius of Unnikrishnan, a good friend of Niru's, Hariharan, Srinivas, Anuradha Sriram, Karthik and Shankar Mahadevan. Celebrated lyricists Vairamuthu, Kapilan, Paa Vijay, Palanibharathi and Arivumathi were also able to successfully echo Niru's thoughts to great effect.

Niru then dedicated much of his time composing music for various charitable endeavours. In memory of the Asian Tsunami of 2004, Niru composed “Kadala Kadal Amma” with the vocals of Tippu by Aruvumathy. Niru also composed for the National Red Cross. Niru became both an independent and critically acclaimed Music Director with the release of his debut film; “Kalabha Kadhalan” in 2005, the music for which was highly successful.

In 2006, Niru’s work, in Mayavi of GV Films, was nominated for the Seoul Drama Awards (SDA). Here, Niru gained the highly prestigious “Jury's Special Award”. The music for “Rameswaram (film)”, also of Niru’s composing, was a great hit.

Sutharshi Ignatius (Jereen) born Sri Lanka and migrated to Canada and finished her Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering now in the Tamil Film industry.

She was Tamil RJ at Toronto, Canada and Artist at Chennai Kalai Kuzu.

T. Indrakumar (Thiyagarajah INDRAKUMAR) born Nothern part of Sri Lanka and now living at UK.  First he entered Tamil cinema and Produced the Movie Ennarukil Nee Irunthal.  Then he directed few very succesful movies.

Singer Santhan was the chief singer of liberation struggle songs during the LTTE Period.  He excelled himself not only in Singing but also in acting. He was greatly felicitated for his acting in the Arichchanthra Mayana Kandam. His artistic life commenced with a chance he got for singing Maruthamalai Mamaniye Murugaiah at the Kathiresan Temple at Cheddi Theru.

He joined the Kannan Music Group in 1977 and later started his own group Santhan Music Group. He had sung hundreds of songs during the Tamil Eelam Liberation struggle, especially the commemorative songs for the Maveerars. The song “Intha mann engalin Sontha Mann” (Itha Maan Engalin Sontha Maan: "இந்த மண் எண்களின் சொந்த மண்") is the most popular song he had sung.

Surrendered to the Army at the end of the Sri Lankan Civil war 2009, he  was released by the Army in a mentally and physically debilitated state.  However he revived his activities in the music sector singing devotional songs.

The popular Tamil Eelam singer of the LTTE era, S.J.Santhan Santhan died of double kidney failure on February 26, 2017, while being treated at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital (Tamil Eelam), the Director of the JTH, Dr.T.Sathiyamoorthy said.  He was 57 years old when he passed away.

His loss will be an irreplaceable void in the music world of motherland. His body was kept at the Inpam Hall, Jaffna from 6p.m. to 11.00 p.m. after which it was taken to Mankulam. His last rites will be held on Tuesday (February 28, 2017) at 2.00p.m.