Yazin Nizar

Yazin Nizar was born on 9 February in Kollam, Kerala, into a Malayali family. Yazin developed an interest in music early in his life. He has been training in Carnatic music and Hindustani music since his school days. He was part of bands in childhood and regularly participated in school youth festivals. He was awarded kalapraibha in state and regional CBSE youth festivals and was also the winner of major TV competitions like Gandharva Sangeetham, Sangeetha Maha Yudham and Apple Megastars in his teens.An MBA and SCM graduate, he was awarded kalapraibha in state and regional CBSE youth festivals and was also winner of 'Gandharva Sangeetham, Sangeetha Maha Yudham and Apple Megastars and began singing live. He later ventured into playback singing, singing in movies for many leading South Indian film composers in various languages including Ilaiyaraaja, Amit Trivedi, Vidyasagar, Devi Sri Prasad, M. M. Keeravani , Mani Sharma , G. V. Prakash Kumar, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Ghibran, , Ouseppachan, Rahul Raj , Vijay Antony, M. Jayachandran, Sharreth, Bijibal, and Gopi Sundar.

He has sung in several languages – Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. "Charusheela" from the Telugu blockbuster Sreemanthudu was one of the biggest hits of 2015, as was "Yavvana" from the Tamil film Satya and "Kolussu Thenni" from the Malayalam film Cousins. His songs for Telugu films such as "Meghalu Lekunna" (Kumari 21F), "Seetakalam" (Son of Satyamurthy), "Apple Beauty" (Janata Garage), "O Sitara" (Winner), "O Vasumathi" (Bharat Ane Nenu), "Nalo Chilipi Kala" (Lover), "I Love You Too" (Shivam), and "Oka Poota Annam Kosam" (Bichagadu) are very popular. His other popular songs include "Avatha Payya" from the critically acclaimed movie Paradesi in GV Prakash's music, the track "Jayalakshmi" from Saithan, "Sajalamai" from the movie 101 Weddings in Deepak Dev's music, and "Veyil Poyal" from Bhaiya Bhaiya, composed by Vidyasagar.

In 2017, he sang the superhit multilingual track "Neeye, Neeve and Neene", composed by Phani Kalyan, in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, and also ventured into indie music with this song. Also the winner of Swaralaya-kairali Gandharvasangeetham, Apple megastars and sangeetha, mahayudham in younger days. He is an MBA in finance and marketing graduate from AMIMA in 2012. Yazin was awarded with Best Playback Singer of the Year at the Mirchi Music Awards in 2016 for the song "Meghalu" from the movie Kumari 21F. He was also a two-time Filmfare nominee and the Best Upcoming Singer award winner at MMA South and GAMA Dubai.

• Mirchi Music Awards South - Winner for Best Singer of the Year 2016
• Mirchi Music Awards South - Winner for best upcoming singer 2015
• Gulf Andhra Music Awards 2016(GAMA) - Best Male Singer
• Kaviyarasu Kannadasan Award 2015 winner - Tamil
• Ragapratibha Award winner 2014 - Malayalam
• Filmfare Award South for best singer nomination for Charusheela from Srimanthudu
• Filmfare Award South for best singer nomination for Meghalu from 21Kumari
• Kairali_ Swaralaya Yesudas Award for best upcoming male voice 2003
• [[BIG FM 92.7 FM AWARD]] Malayalam 2013 -Nomination for the song "Sajalamai"

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