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About VM Mahalingam
VM Mahalingam (V. M. Mahalingam) is a South Indian singer and music composer who performs predominantly in Tamil, as well as Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu. His great strength is folk singing — an earthy, traditional voice rooted in the rural musical idioms of Tamil Nadu that brings raw authenticity to film soundtracks.
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Who is VM Mahalingam?
VM Mahalingam (V. M. Mahalingam) is a South Indian singer and music composer who performs predominantly in Tamil, as well as Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu. His great strength is folk singing — an earthy, traditional voice rooted in the rural musical idioms of Tamil Nadu that brings raw authenticity to film soundtracks.
Career
He has been performing on stage since the year 2000 and made his first recording for a Tamil film in 2009. A tireless live performer, he has given more than 1,500 concerts in India and abroad, and in 2023 expanded into music direction with the Tamil film Kulasamy.
Notable work
Mahalingam has lent his distinctive folk voice to a long list of well-known films, including Komban, Sethupathi, Salim, Rajini Murugan, Maari 2, Ragalapuram and the epic Ponniyin Selvan — often on exactly the kind of rooted, high-energy numbers that demand a genuine folk singer rather than a polished pop voice.
Recent work
In 2026 he co-sang Karuppa Kooda Va, the folk-fusion lead single from the Tamil film Karuppu, bringing his traditional vocal power to Sai Abhyankkar's composition.
