“I want to become a music composer and a singer,” says Gagan Gaonkar (13), winner of the fifth season of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li’l Champs’, a reality show organised by Zee TV.
Gagan, a class 7 student of Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavar, has been learning Hindustani vocal under Mahabaleshwara Bhagawat for the last seven years. He passed the music examination conducted by the Karnataka Secondary Education Board with 82 per cent in 2014.
Gagan shot to limelight after becoming the ‘little champion’ in Zee Kannada channel’s ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’, when he was in class 5 in 2012. Besides this, he has given over 100 music programmes across the State, singing both film and devotional songs.
He also sang for the Kannada serial ‘Chi Sow Savithri’ and the Paper Paper song for Kannada film Ulidavaru Kandanthe .
For the Hindi show of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li’l Champs’, Gagan participated in the auditions in Bengaluru on November 23, 2014. There were 10 rounds of auditions in Mumbai and he was among the 12 children below 14 years to be selected.
He cruised to success winning the coveted trophy and a Nissan Sunny car in the final episode, shot on March 18 and telecast on March 21. A delighted Gagan says he was happy to win the trophy on such a big platform.
13-year-old Gagan Gaonkar emerges winner of Zee TV’s music competition
