He studied information technology (IT) in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India and started teaching IT courses in Sri Lanka.

In 2004, he was given a chance by Bathiya, an artist in Sri Lanka and started recording rap songs until he was discovered by Vijay Antony.

He was featured along with Anirudh Ravichander for the song "Mun Sellada"[7] in the film Manithan (2016), composed by Santhosh Narayanan.

He continued to work in Tamil and Telugu cinema, writing and performing English language rap for soundtracks, including the title track "Maayon"[9] in Mersal (2017) composed by A. R. Rahman, the song "Gala Gala" featured with Megha from Race Gurram composed by S. Thaman and also a background score (which had been deleted later) in Nerkonda Paarvai.

Kanagaratnam has joined concert tours in Sri Lanka, the Middle East, India, Malaysia and Singapore.