By Shailesh K Seran [ June 04, 2009 ]
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Airtel Super Singer 2008 Grand Finale

Airtel Super Singer 2008 LIVE was held on June 03rd, 2009 at YMCA Royapettah Chennai amidst thousands of active and interested audiences. Viewers of Tamilnadu got to vote for the most deserving singer of ASS08 through SMS and online voting for the past week two weeks and in the end, three most deserving singers – Ajesh, Ravi and Renu got the greatest opportunity to sing before thousands of LIVE audience for the grand finale. The victory of these singers was judged by the votes of the viewers.

Launched in July 2008 for the hunt of Tamilnadu’s best singer, the show has reached new heights and redefined the television viewing in Tamilnadu. Many aspiring singers across Coimbatore, Trichy and Chennai took part in the ground auditions of Super Singer and proved their singing mettle in front of many legendary singers. Many innovative rounds like Black & white, Dedication, Unplugged, Western, Classical the show proved to be a success at the end of every round.

Airtel Super Singer 2008 show witnessed some of the eminent playback singers from the Tamil industry. Legendary singers like P. B. Srinivas, M. S. Viswanathan, L .R. Easwari; popular playback singers like Chitra, Malaysia Vasudevan, Mano, Hariharan, Anuradha Sriram, Unni Menon, Malgudi Shubha; Carnatic vocalist Sudha Ragunathan and many young playback singers like Karthik, Harini, Tippu and many more have been a part of this season’s Airtel Super Singer 2008.

The Judges of the show – Srinivas, Unnikrishnan and Sujatha have been a source of inspiration for these budding super singers.

The winner of Airtel Super Singer 2008 gets one lifetime chance to sing in the composition of Yuvan Shankar Raja, son of the maestro Ilayaraja. The final was held in two parts which initially had Ajesh, Ravi, Renu, Prasana and Ranjani. Prasana and Ranjani were eliminated and the show was left with Ajesh, Ravi and Renu.

The three finalists contested in a three hour mega LIVE event at the end of which the winner of Airtel Super Singer 2008 was announced as AJESH.

The show was graced by legends from the Tamil music industry along with music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja.

The crowd was seen in full cheers for the title winner AJESH. To make the LIVE finals more interesting, many LIVE performances was in store for the viewers. Michael, Priyadarshini and Raghav performed to some foot tapping numbers and Yugendran and DD were the perfect hosts for the evening. Popular playback singer Neha Bhasin and actress Chaya Singh gave away some exhilarating performances. Also Super Singer Juniors Krishnamoorthy, Vignesh, Sai Charan and Abarna were among the few to cheer the audience for the evening. Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhu Dheva finalsist – Sherif, Nanda and Premgopal too, entertained the audience with their outstanding dance routine.

The Super Singers had a lot of goodies to carry home apart from the coveted title and a chance to sing in the music of Yuvan Shakar Raja. The winner of Airtel Super Singer 2008 AJESH was awarded with a car worth Rs. 7 lakhs. The first runner up RAVI was given a home theatre worth Rs. 2 lakhs. The second runner up RENU was given a LCD Television set.

“Super Singer is one of our premium properties and the grand finale which was beamed live today was a fitting farewell to the second season. This provides a great spring board to launch our Super Singer Junior version which is to hit air seamlessly from next week”, says K. Sriram, General Manager, Vijay Television Pvt. Ltd.

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Airtel Super Singer 08 Event Photos