Like Bollywood, there are many great singers in the world of music. Among them, there was one singer who ruled the audience for a long time. Made millions of people crazy with his sweet voice. The singer sang many superhit songs with Hariharan, Suresh Wadkar, Alka Yagnik, Roopkumar Rathore, Sunidhi Chauhan, Asha Bhosle, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Sonu Nigam, but one day it came that he suddenly bid goodbye to his fans and left them. .
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Here we are talking about the late singer Krishnakumar Kunnath alias KK, who mesmerized the audience with his melodious voice from 1996 to 2022. Let us tell you that KK sang 700 songs in his 28 years of singing career. Almost all of these were hits. Apart from Hindi, he also sang many songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali and Gujarati languages.
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According to Wikipedia, in the initial days of his career, KK had sung about 35000 jingles in 11 Indian languages within 4 years. He sang more than 250 songs in Hindi. He also sang the song ‘Josh of India’ to support the Indian team during the Cricket World Cup in 1999. Even though he is no longer among us, the songs sung by him still resonate with the audience. His songs are still heard a lot even today.
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KK started his singing career in 1996 with Vishal Bhardwaj’s film ‘Maachis’. The film’s superhit song ‘Chhod Aaye Hum’ was sung by KK along with Hariharan, Suresh Wadkar, Vinod Sehgal. This song became such a super hit that people noticed KK’s voice.
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About 3 years after the release of ‘Maachis’, we got a chance to sing in the 1999 film ‘Dil De Chuke Sanam’. In this film he sang two songs ‘Kaipoche’ and ‘Tadap-Tadap’. ‘Tadap-Tadap’ became a chartbuster song of the year 1999. People liked this song so much that KK became the king of the singing world. This song changed the singer’s life. He received the Filmfare Award for this song in the year 2000.
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You will be surprised to know that KK, who gave many hit songs to the music industry, had never taken any singing training in his life. Before coming into the world of singing, he also worked as a salesman in the hotel industry for eight months.
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He himself told these things to his fans after coming to Kapil Sharma’s show. Along with this, he had also said that he had married his childhood love. His wife’s name is Jyoti. Both of them got married in 1991. But before marriage, KK had to find a job for herself. After not getting anything at that time, he took up the job of a salesman. After this they got married. But within six months he became frustrated with his job. With the support of his wife and father, he left this job and followed the path on which he was destined to walk, and that was the path of music.
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Let us tell you that KK is no longer among us. He died due to a heart attack in the year 2022. It is said that on May 31, 2022, KK was performing at a music invite in Kolkata. After this, when he reached the hotel, he became unconscious and fell on the bed. After which he was admitted to the hospital. Where the doctors declared him dead. KK has two children, named Nakul and Tamra.
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