Malabar Gopalan Nair Sreekumar, widely recognised as M. G. Sreekumar works primarily in Malayalam movies and television. He has sung more than 20,000 songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He owns a music company called KMG Musics and also the Saregama School of Music in Thiruvananthapuram. Sreekumar was born to the composer and harmonist Malabar Gopalan Nair and the exponent of Harikatha Kamalakshi Amma.
Sreekumar made his debut in the Malayalam film Coolie (1983) directed by Ashok Kumar. The Malayalam movie Chithram (1988) directed by Priyadarshan, starring Mohanlal, was the first one where Sreekumar sang all the songs. He has sung more than 4,000 movie songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu. Sreekumar has worked as a music director in Malayalam films such as Chathurangam (2002) and Thandavam (2002), Priyadarshan's Kanchivaram (2008), Mohanlal's Alexander the Great and Oru Naal Varum. He also anchored a TV show called SaReGaMa on Asianet and was a judge of the reality show Idea Star Singer.
Best Male Playback Singer - National Film Awards - 1990
Best Playback Singer - Surya TV Awards - 2010
Best Male Playback Singer – Malayalam - Filmfare Awards South - 2016