He has two sons, Siddharth and Shivam Mahadevan, both of whom are singers as well. In 2019 he was felicitated with the Padma Shri Award for his contribution to Film Music. A prominent star in Tamil cinema, he gained further recognition upon the release of his first music album, Breathless, in 1998.
Rahman and winning a National Film Award for his song in Kandukondain Kandukondain. He earned his first award as a playback singer in a Tamil movie, collaborating with A. After working for a while for Leading Edge Systems, Shankar ventured into the field of music. After graduating in 1988 with a degree in Software Engineering from Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology in Navi Mumbai under the auspices of Mumbai University, he worked as a software engineer on Oracle Version Six. He studied under Shrinivas Khale, a popular Marathi music composer. He learned Hindustani classical music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing the veena at the age of five. Shankar Mahadevan, the main vocalist of the trio, was born and brought up in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai, in a Tamil Iyer family from Kerala.
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