MUMBAI: Benny Dayal who hails from Kerala, is an Indian playback singer. He got a golden chance to be associated with music maestro A R Rahman early in his career and most of the songs he sang for him have been in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and of course Hindi.

Benny is famous for his songs like 'Rehna Tu', 'Aadat Se Majboor', 'Badtameez Dil', 'Bang Bang', 'Kaise Mujhe Tum Mil gayi' and many more. On his birthday today, Radioandmusic.com brings some lesser known facts about Benny Dayal. Read on to know more.

Benny was the cultural convenor of Madras Christian College where he studied and won several inter-college music competitions.

Benny made his acting debut in the Malayalam movie 'By The People'

Benny Dayal won the ‘Filmfare’ award in 2009 under the category 'RD Burman Award For New Music Talent'

In his early days, Benny had to leave an established music director’s office after the composer allegedly shouted at him and said he (Benny) would never be a playback singer. It was quite depressing for Benny.

During Ramzan, he recorded the first two songs for Rahman - for ‘Varalaaru’ and ‘Sakkarakatti’

Benny’s all-time favourite number with Rahman is ‘Kaise Mujhe Tum Mil Gayi’ from Ghajini

Benny was a part of a band named S5 which was launched by the channel SS music. His first composition was for the band

Benny Dayal broke genre barriers to create the first Tamil bass track in association with Nucleya

Benny worked as an Events Coordinator in his early days with RR Donnelley and after that, he quit his job in a BPO to get into the music industry

Check out his favourite song:

Kaise Mujhe Tum Mil Gayi – Ghajini