Career
He sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music He has recorded more than 1,000 songs in languages including Malayalam, English, Tamil, Hindi, during a career spanning two decades. Debut and early career The early stages of his career were marked by singing for dramas and albums.
He worked with notable musicians including his mentor Kalavoor Balan, North.P. Prabhakaran, Alleppey Vivekanandan, Alleppey Rishikesh, Kumarakam Rajappan, Vypin Surendran, K.M.Udayan, T.S.Radhakrishnan, Sebi Nayarambalam, Samji Aarattupuzha, M.G.Anil, Raveendran Thiruvalla, Vidhyadharan master, R.Somasekharan, Jerry Amaldev, Johnson, Raveendran, M.G.Radhakrishnan, Perumbavoor G.Raveendranath, V.Dakshinamoorthy, M.K.Arjunan, and G.Devarajan.
His first film audio Thalolam released in 1998 (lyrics and music by Kaithapram) was produced by Johny Sagariga, who introduced him to the audio industry. lieutenant was in 1999 that Sudeep Kumar met Devarajan master which proved to be a turning point in his career.
In the year 2000, when Devarajan master conducted a stage show titled Five promising singers of the new millennium, Sudeep Kumar was one among the five. Sudeep Kumar was introduced as a playback singer by the director Vinayan in his movie Oomapenninu Uriyaadappayyan.
The soundtrack of the film was composed by Mohan Sitara and lyrics were penned by Yusuf Ali Kecheri.
Subsequently he got songs in Vinayan"s movies such as Kattu Chembakam, Vellinakshatram and Albhuthadweepu (Malayalam & Tamil). Over the years he associated with music directors such as Ousepachan, Mohan Sitara, M.M.Keeravani, Kaithapram, Rajamani, Berny Ignatious, M.G. Sreekumar, Kaithapram Viswanathan, Bijibal, Rony Raphael and B.Prakash. Composer M.Jayachandran gave major opportunities for Sudeep Kumar which placed him as a playback singer in the Malayalam film industry.
They have worked together in more than 20 films in Malayalam and the result has been hit songs such as Madambi (Ente sharike), Shikar (Enthedi), Rathinirvedam(Chempakapoo), Chattakari (Nilave), and Swapna sanchari (Vellaramkunnileri).
