Kamahl

**Kandiah KAM** AM (Tamil; an haife shi a ranar 13 ga watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1934), wanda aka fi sani da sunansa na mataki **Kamahl**, mawaƙi ne kuma mai yin rikodi na Australiya. Ya kasance a cikin masana'antar kiɗa ta Australiya sama da shekaru 70 kuma ya yi wasu bayyanar talabijin da fina-finai masu ban mamaki, da kuma kide-kide.

Ya sayar da rikodin sama da miliyan 20 kuma ya rubuta fiye da kundi 30. Mafi girman jadawalin Australiya, "Sounds of Goodbye" (1969), ya kai saman 20 a kan Kent Music Report singles chart. Wani guda, "The Elephant Song" (1975), ya kai lamba daya a duka Netherlands da Belgium.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Kamahl a ranar 13 ga Nuwamba 1934 a gundumar Brickfields ta Kuala Lumpur, Tarayyar Malay, ga iyayen Ceylonese Tamil da Hindu, na biyu babba cikin yara shida. Mahaifin Kamahl, babban magatakarda a sashen injiniya na Malaya Railways ya yi ƙaura daga Ceylon (yanzu Sri Lanka) zuwa Malaya a 1919. Daga 1936-1938, saurayi Kamahl ya zauna tare da mahaifiyarsa a garinsu na Jaffna a Ceylon . Daga nan sai ya koma Kuala Lumpur, inda ya girma har sai ya halarci makaranta a Kwalejin Sarki a Adelaide, Kudancin Australia, daga 1953-1955. Mahaifinsa shi ne shugaban makarantar kiɗa ta Tamil. Kamahl ta yi karatu a Cibiyar Victoria. Ya sha wahala ta jima'i tun yana yaro daga manya uku daban-daban. Ya rayu ta hanyar mamayar Japan a Malaya a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu.

Ya isa Adelaide, Kudancin Australia, a watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1953, kuma ya kammala makarantar sakandare a Kwalejin Sarki.  Daga nan sai ya shiga Jami'ar Adelaide, yana karatun gine-gine don faranta wa iyayensa rai.

## Ayyukan kiɗa
Kamahl ya ci gaba da sha'awar waka a jami'a. Ya tafi shirin talanti na talabijin na Australia's Amateur Hour kuma ya lashe wasan karshe na jihar wanda ya haifar da ci gaba da talabijin da kulob din. Ya bar karatun gine-gine kuma ya zama mai nishadantarwa na cikakken lokaci. Ya kuma yi karatu a Elder Conservatorium of Music na shekara guda.

A farkon wasan kwaikwayon jama'a, daga 1958, ya taƙaita sunansa zuwa Kamal. Shugabannin bukukuwan da suka biyo baya sun sanar da shi a matsayin "kamara", don haka ya canza rubutun zuwa Kamahl. Rupert Murdoch ya kasance mai tallafawa na farko, kuma ya ba Kamahl £ 10 a wata ƙungiya a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1958 kuma ya ƙarfafa shi ya koma Sydney. Ba tare da tambaya ba, Murdoch ya shirya Kamahl don yin mako shida a Otal din Australia a Sydney. Bayan wannan kakar, ya shiga tare da Murdochs na tsawon shekaru biyu.

A shekara ta 1966, Kamahl ya kasance dan wasan karshe a Sydney Eisteddfod Sun Aria, yana raira waƙar Verdi ta "Ella giammai m'amò" da Mussorgsky ta "Farewell and Death of Boris". Ya rubuta tare kuma ya raira waƙar taken fim din 1967, Journey Out of Darkness, wanda shi ma ya yi aiki a ciki.

Ya kasance daya daga cikin mutane na farko da suka bayyana a cikin kide-kide a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Sydney. Ya yi aiki a London Palladium  da Carnegie Hall  da kuma mashaya da kungiyoyi a duk faɗin Ostiraliya.

An saki kundi na farko, A Voice to Remember, a Ostiraliya a watan Oktoba 1967. Ya saki waƙoƙi da kundi a Amurka, Kanada, Burtaniya, New Zealand, Kudancin Amurka, Indiya, Singapore, Malaysia da Jamus (a cikin Jamusanci), da kuma a cikin Netherlands, Belgium da Scandinavia. Daga 1967 zuwa gaba a Ostiraliya, rikodin sa, kaset da CD sun kasance da farko a kan lakabin Philips, amma kuma ya rubuta a kan EMI, Mercury, Festival, Dino da Reader's Digest.

## Bayanan da aka yi
A cikin 1985, Chicago Tribune ta ba da rahoton Kamahl cewa ya sayar da "fiye da miliyan 20 a duk duniya" da kuma "yanki 76 na zinariya da 14 na platinum". A cikin sanarwar manema labarai ta 2007, an ce bayanan Kamahl sun sami matsayi na zinariya da platinum sama da sau 80. A cikin 2018, Port News ta ba da rahoton Kamahl kamar yadda ya yi rikodin fiye da kundi 30 kuma ya sami "fiye da 100 zinariya da platinum records".

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