Manickam Yogeswaran

Maanikkam Yogeswaran is a Sri Lankan Tamil musician and exponent of Carnatic music.

He was born 1959 in Meesalai, Sri Lanka, where he attended Jaffna Hindu College before moving to London.

His guru was T. V. Gopalakrishnan[2] He has contributed to film scores and dance and theatre companies in and outside the United Kingdom and performed with European classical orchestras.

He performed at BBC Proms,[3] the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra,[4] the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra,[5] Glastonbury, Arts and ideas Festival, Spitalfields, Womad and with Jocelyn Pook for the Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee.

He has sung on the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut in a piece composed by Jocelyn Pook, thus becoming the first Tamil singer whose work has been featured in a Hollywood movie.