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Singer Srinivas is an engineer who turned to playback singing for Indian films. He studied in Kerala and was coached in carnatic music by his aunt. Srinivas had developed a fine ear for music early in his life. He was born in Ambasamudram to Duraiswamy Iyengar and Lakshmi. Growing up in Trivandrum, he followed the bhajan groups, who walked by the streets, singing devotional songs during the month of Margazhi. He started listening to Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, M. D. Ramanathan and others through his aunt Mrs. Padmanarayanan, his guru in music. The soul-stirring magic of Kishore Kumar-R.D.Burman deeply influenced him...

A mechanical engineer from Anna University Chennai, Vineeth Sreenivasan is the son of the Malayalam film actor and film-maker Sreenivasan. He is a part of the band Malayalee with Jakes Bejoy, Shaan Rahman and Arjun Sasi. He has also acted as one of the main protagonists in the Malayalam film titled Cycle which did well at the box-office. He writes the lyrics of most of his album songs and has also shown his direction skills, directing his own music videos. .

"Carnival Park might hail from the Philippines, but they sound more like a leisurely bike ride along the California coast. The playful sextet mixes a '90s SiestaPOP feel with a good shake of Japanese twee to get a light, sweet piece of cotton candy, complete with toy keyboard." --- Shelflife Records .

Lester Abrams formed the The Les Smith Soul Band (the Band would be renamed L.A. Carnival later) as Lester was developing the "Fabulous Impacts" and a reputation as "the baddest drummer in town", Leslie Orlando Smith (born 1949 in Detroit) was attending North High School and singing lead in the band "Sights and Sounds" with, amongst others, schoolmate Ron Cooley on guitar and a bass player from Central High, Rick Chudacoff. After a series of personnel and name changes, including the addition of Arno Lucas, they became the Les Smith Soul Band. After some time, Leslie invited Lester to a...