Varun Parandhaman is an Indian musician and songwriter based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is an independent artist/freelance singer and a music producer. Early life Born and brought up in Chennai, Varun Parandhaman finished his schooling at KPCVSS and studied to be a Software Engineer. He took to singing and song writing in middle school but never had any formal learning in any form of music. While pursuing a professional engineering degree, he won numerous solo singing events in the inter-college level. Music career While in college, he taught himself how to use popular digital audio workstations (DAWs) today such as Cubase, Nuendo, Ableton Live and more. He then became the music producer for various artists based in Chennai, and also collaborated with them. In 2009, Varun sang the hook for the remix version of the song Kadavule Kadavule composed by music director D. Imman in the actor Jiiva starrer Kacheri Arambam. Since then, he has been freelancing as a backup vocalist for more than 6 years. Music took a huge turn when he graduated from college. He has sung back-up for reputed music directors in the industry today such as A. R. Rahman, D. Imman, Anirudh Ravichander, Santhosh Kumar Dayanidhi, Pradeep Vijay, Sean Roldan, Siddharth Vipin and Ved Shankar. Also, he has always been associated with Independent Music and has worked on and recorded songs for the famous Tamil Hip Hop duo, Hiphop Tamizha. Noticing that a Tamil boy band was non-existent in the music scenario, Varun Parandhaman decided to mentor Namma Ooru Boy Band (NOBB) and collaborate his music styles pioneering Tamil Pop. His first venture with NOBB was the largely popular reggae style single Cosmopolitan Kadhali for which he produced the music and vocals working along with Keba Jeremiah, Joshua Satya and Andrew Arun. The music video, released in April 2014 under the banner Divo Movies starring model Surya Ganapathy has garnered more than 600,000 views on YouTube and was premiered in the popular South Indian music channel Sun Music which predominantly plays film music in July 2014. He has his own band, Varun Parandhaman & Friends, composed of and collaborating with prominent musicians from the film industry and they have been touring and doing shows in Bengaluru, Kerala, Erode, Yercaud and also numerous reputed venues in Chennai. August 2014 saw Varun Parandhaman securing another huge milestone. His debut into Tamil film music, was an opportunity through