Mano (singer) - Career - Early Days and Debut

Early Days and Debut

While in 1979, Mano was shooting for a Telugu film for which the veteran M. S. Viswanathan was the music composer. It so happened that the original singer S. P. Balasubramanyam who was supposed to sing a song could not show up to the recording studio. Accidentally, Mano was asked to show his singing skills by the composer's assistant who was a good friend of Mano's father. Mano rendered few of the Ghazal songs much to the appreciation of audience present there and the composer himself. From then on, Mano was signed by Viswanathan to sing few track songs upon which the main singer would sing in the final version. In 1982, Mano approached the famous composer Chakravarthy seeking a chance for his brother who was upcoming as a Tabla player. However, Chakravarthy insisted that he wanted an assistant like him to sing track songs. Mano, joined his troop and assisted for almost 2 years. In his tenure with Chakravarthy, Mano sang over 2000 tracks for almost all the leading singers.

Mano recorded his debut original song in 1984, for the Telugu film Karpoora Deepam. He was one among the 3 singers that also included S. P. Balasubramanyam and P. Susheela. He sang in a 1985 released Kannada film for musician Hamsalekha. Later he made his debut in Tamil films under Meastro Ilaiyaraaja in 1987 for the film Poovizhi Vasalile.

Among all the films that he acted, it was the 1992 released Tamil film Singaravelan that gave him much recognition as a comedy actor. He acted along side Kamal Haasan and Kushboo in this film.