Clinton Cerejo

Clinton Cerejo

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Clinton Cerejo Profile

  • Name:
  • Clinton Cerejo
  • Spouse:
  • Dominique

Clinton Cerejo Biography

Clinton Cerejo is a playback singer and music arranger of Tamil and Hindi movies. He also does vocal arrangements, background scores, music programming and production. He often provides vocals in the background while recording songs. One such most memorable song is ‘Pachai Nirame’ of Alaippayuthey where he provided background vocals for Hari Haran along with its composer Alaippayuthey. Another song of A.R.Rehman’s composition where he gave vocals is ‘Smayaiyai’ of Kandukondein kandukondein.   He is most commonly associated with A.R.Rehman and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy team and has given significant contributions to their works too.

 

Clinton Cerejo was born in a family where no members have inclination towards music. His father was an Engineer and his mother, a French teacher. His elder brother is S/W professional and his younger sister is an editor for medical journals. He completed his graduation in Commerce from Poddar College in Mumbai. Before joining post graduation, his friends pursue to become a singer. Parents opposed his decision to become a singer as they want their son to have a secure job and earning.  But from his college days, Clinton always took great enthusiasm in knowing the texture of a song and all the elements needed for its arrangement and composition.

 

During his college days, he used to do jam sessions with his friend Siddharth Haldipur. Siddharth Haldipur is one among the two music directors who gave music to Murder 2. Once Sidharth’s father noted his work and suggested his name to Anand Modak, the music director of Marathi movies. Thus he got his first break to perform an English song. Then he started lending his voice to many advertisement jingles and during this time, he has associated with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy team and Lewis. Clinton has sung numerous jingles with Kunal Ganjewala, who later became a leading playback singer of Bollywood. He has also worked with Kay Kay.

 

As he was interested in music arrangements and singing notes, he stopped singing assignments and began giving preference to these areas of music. He started off with small films and remix albums and very soon, he became a popular name in the field of music arrangement. Once A.R.Rehman happened to overhear one of Clinton's vocal arrangements for a song and gave him assignments. Thus began the musical journey of Clinton. He is married to playback singer and vocalist Dominique.

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Updated: July 26, 2013

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