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Krishnakumar Kunnath (born August 23, 1968), popularly known as KK, is an Indian playback singer. He is a prominent singer in Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil films

Born in Delhi to Malayali parents C. S. Nair and Kanakavalli Krishnakumar Kunnath was brought up in New Delhi. KK sang 3,500 jingles before Bollywood break. An alumnus of Delhi's Mount St. Mary school. He appeared in "Josh Of India" song for the support of Indian Cricket Team during Cricket World Cup 1999 Following this, he released an album called Pal for which he received a Star Screen Award for the Best Solo Album.

In 1994, he gave his demo tape to Louis Banks, Ranjit Barot and Leslie Lewis to get a break in the music arena. He was called by UTV and he sung a jingle for Santogen Suiting ad.[8] In a span of four years, he has sung more than 3,500 jingles in 11 Indian languages. He got the first break in Mumbai from UTV to sing jingles. He considers Leslie Lewis as his mentor for giving him his first jingle to sing in Mumbai. KK debuted as a playback singer with A. R. Rahman's hit song "College Styley" and "Hello Dr." from Kadir's Kadal Desam and then "Strawberry Kannae" from AVM Productions's musical film Minsara Kanavu (1997) Pritam Chakraborty is also fan of him. He got his Bollywood break with "Tadap Tadap Ke Is Dil" from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999). However, prior to this song he had song a small portion of the song "Chod aaye hum" from Gulzar's Maachis and "Jab Bhi Koi Haseena" from Priyadarshan's Hera Pheri. Till now, KK has sung more than 500 songs in Hindi and more than 200 songs in Telugu, Bengali, Tamil and Kannadalanguages.[10] He has worked with music composers such as Pritam Chakraborty, Ilayaraja, Harris Jayaraj, Deva, Mani Sharma, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vidyasagar, A. R. Rahman,Ismail Darbar, Himesh Reshammiya, Vishal-Shekhar etc.