| The ultimate search for the best voice of Tamilnadu
"Airtel Super Singer" was going on through out Tamilnadu
for the past few weeks starting from Coimbatore on 01 April 2006.
Special arrangements were made to facilitate the contestants to record
their voice in the video booth that was located on various parts of
the city. The show was launched on Vijay on 28th April, Fridays and
Saturdays at 8 pm. Last week featured the Coimbatore episode wherein
20 selected finalists were announced. They are A.M. Suresh, A.C. Rohini,
V. Shilpa, N. Vignesh, V. Prasanna, Meera Krishnan, N. Padmavathy,
S. Kuzhandhaivelu, K. Raghavendharan, Febin Pareed Pillai, M. Ramu,
Vidya Venkatakrishnan, Shruthi Rajan, Kovai Balamithran. Out of which
two chennai participants and Guwahati, Salem Kerala participants who
have come and took part in the Coimbatore audition was selected, namely,
Swathi Sridharan, R. Vijay Krishnan, Maya from Chennai, Rupankar Thakur
from Guwahati, D. Shivanandhni from Salem and Shenaaz from Kerala.
It is to be mentioned that 65 years old Kovai Balamithran competed
with all the youngsters and has been selected in the contest. He
was very confident that he would be one among the 20 participants
when he attended the audition.
The second audition was held at Chennai on 16th April and the final
audition at Madurai on 23rd April. Thousands of talented singers
took part in the 3 level auditions at all these places. The chennai
audition episode will be aired on Vijay TV on 05 and 06 May at 8
pm.
The promotion for the programme began nearly a month ago and thousands
of singers have sent in their CDs and tapes and also through mobile
phone dialing an Airtel number. Besides this, the participants also
registered their voice through the mobile vans, which was organized
by the channel through the main parts of the city. This is was the
first time a contest of this magnitude was being conducted by Vijay
TV. Renowned playback singers were part of the show as the judges
at the auditions. Starting with Malaysia Vasudevan, Mahati, SP.
Shailaja, Malathi, Music director Iman, Dr. Sirkazhi Sivachidambaram
and Jensi were judges for this ultimate voice hunt show. Popular
singer Chinmayi would anchor the show.
The selected 60 participants (20 from each zone) will undergo various
rounds of tests in Chennai at a specially created set. The main
juries of judges are Srinivas, Anuradha Sriram and Unni Krishnan
who would have the toughest task of eliminating the talented 60
singers. Each zonal participant is going to be put to test and the
number will be brought down to 30, the shooting of this will happen
in the next few days. Airtel Super singer airs Fridays and Saturdays
at 8 pm on Vijay TV.
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