Born in Mumbai, India on March 3, 1967, Shankar Mahadevan is an award-winning
Bollywood playback singer and member of the popular songwriting trio
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (S-E-L) with guitarist Ehsaan Noorani and keyboardist/music
director Loy Mendonsa. Shankar Mahadevan was born into a Tamil Brahmin speaking
family and learned to play the veena – and Indian stringed instrument – by the
age of five. He studied music while attending high school and college but
graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering. Initially
taking a job as a software engineer, he quit hi...