"Andrea Jeremiah is an Indian actress, playback singer, musician and dancer. She works predominantly in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries. Beginning her career as a playback singer, Andrea has gone on to appear in films, mostly in the Tamil language.Jeremiah was born in an Anglo-Indian Roman Catholic family in Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu. Her father is a lawyer at the High Court in Chennai.She has one younger sister who lives and works at Leuven, Belgium as a research assistant.She was raised near Chennai and went to National Public School and graduated from Women's Christian College.She said that she was quite a geek and wanted to be a psychiatrist until she completed her 12th board exams. Jeremiah learnt classical piano when she was age of eight. At the age of 10, Andrea was a part of a Jackson Five-style troupe called Young Stars which formed the base of her early singing and music composing career. She was also a theatre artist in her college and appeared in several stage plays organised by The Madras Players and EVAM.She also organised a company The Show Must Go On (TSMGO Productions) to promote live art and artistes. Andrea said that as a college student, she had turned down every film offer she got as she had no intention of becoming a film actor.Andrea has stated that her focus was always on music[9] and that she chose to be a professional singer and that acting happened by chance.[19] In 2005, she ventured into playback singing in feature films.[20] She has sung several popular songs for composers Harris Jayaraj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Devi Sri Prasad and G. V. Prakash Kumar [21] and has also received nominations at Filmfare and Vijay Awards for few of them. She considers the song ""Maalai Neram"" as the most challenging she has sung.[9]"