Aaryan Dinesh Kanagaratnam
Dinesh Kanagaratnam | |
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Native name | தினேஷ் கனகரட்ணம் |
Born |
August 1981 (age 32) Badulla, Sri Lanka |
Origin | Badulla, Sri Lanka |
Genres | Hip hop, R&B |
Occupations | Music producer, rapper, singer |
Years active | 2007—present |
Website | www.adkrapper.com |
Dinesh Kanagaratnam (Tamil : தினேஷ் கனகரட்ணம்) (born August 1981) is a Tamil R&B and Hip Hop artist and music producer. He has sung for music director A.R.Rahman Magudi song from Kadal movie.
Founder and entrepreneur at Antostage Records, Aaryan Dinesh Kanagaratnam also known as ADK, is the first Srilankan vocalist or rapper to work with Oscar winner A.R.Rahman in 2012. Kanagaratnam is a well established Sri Lankan Tamil rapper. His first album was with Gajan, called Cross culture. Later he worked on few albums such as Thamila collaborating with em Emcee Jesz and Psycho Mantra, SL2SG with charles bosco, and the song called "Kuruvi" is a hit number, then comes the latest one Aaryan, which was released not only in Srilanka, also in India, Malaysia, Singapore and Europe. He has also sung a few Sinhala songs such as "Kalu Nano", "Rosi Ogaiya", and "Meter Song (Sinhala version of Why This Kolaveri Di). He rapidly grew to fame after his remix on the Sri Lankan classic baila song "Surangani", titled "Surangani Remix", which is a bilingual song (Tamil & Sinhala). He then went on to create a fully Tamil version titled "Aathichudi", and this became a very famous and popular song in Tamil Nadu.
Discography
Albums
- Aaryan (2012)
Colloborations
- Kuruvi (with Charles Bosco)
- SWAG Thamizhachi (with Tupakeys)
Films
- Aathichudi - TN-07 AL 4777 - (2009)
- Oru Chinna Thamarai - Vettaikaran - (2009)
- Magudi Magudi - Kadal - (2009)