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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Diwakar
Person · male · India · Chennai · born 1990
play back singer , live performer
Also known as ディワカール
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1990s
Biography
English biography209 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1376670357
Biography
Dhivagaran Santhosh (also known as Diwakar) is an Indian playback singer and live performer. He is best known for winning Airtel Super Singer 4, a Tamil language musical reality TV show which was telecast from February 4th 2013 to February 1st 2014 on Vijay TV.
Television works
Diwakar participated in various reality TV musical competitions telecast on various Tamil language TV channels, including Zee Tamil's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2009 Challenge, Jaya TV's Hariyudan Naan, and season 2 of Sun TV's Sangeetha Mahayuddham. In 2012, Diwakar was crowned runner up in Raj TV's Voice of Tamil Nadu.
On 1 February 2014, he was crowned the winner of season 4 of the Airtel Super Singer music competition telecast on Vijay TV, having received the greatest number of viewer votes. During the show's grand finale, Diwakar's performance of the song "Neeye Unakku Endrum" from the film Bale Pandiya prompted a standing ovation from the audience and a kiss on his forehead from playback singer, S. Janaki.
Playback singing and recordings
Diwakar recorded his first song as a playback singer for music director D. Imman for the movie 'Panchu Mittai'. However, his voice as a playback singer was first released in the Tamil language movie, Vadacurry, for a song co-sung by playback singers Vijay Prakash and Ajeesh.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Diwakar head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diwakar_%28singer%29_-_Dhivagar_Santhosh.JPGcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19571928seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwakarbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwakar
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Indian playback singers — rank #48
Diwakar | 2014–present | Tamil
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: RRAAJabbar · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q19571928 · MusicBrainz: c7a690de-f720-4bb2-ba0d-f8f992b01837
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