Karthik (born 7 November 1980) is an Indian playback singer. Karthik started his professional career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung in multiple languages including Tamil( over 1000 songs), Telugu( over 500 songs), Kannada( over 300 songs), and in other languages like Malayalam, Odia, Bengali and Hindi. Karthik is known for his versatility in the industry which gave him opportunity to sing a variety of songs.
He has composed music for a multi lingual Coca Cola Advertisement (for Rajeev Menon featuring actor Vijay)[3] and Prince Jewellery advertisements. He is the music director of Vasanthabalan's period film Aravaan and Srinivas Raga's Okkadine starring Nara Rohit and Nithya Menen in Telugu.
He has also released an album called "Music I Like". It is based on carnatic ragaas and it is a contemporary take on some well known keerthanas.The Orchestration was done my Music director Sai Madhukar. He also performed in Oxford engineering college Bengaluru.