PG Chetan is an Indian classical musician and a playback singer. He has won the International Award for the best male playback singer four times, the highest by any Indian singer, and the State Award for the best playback singer and music director more than 15 times by the Government of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal.

Chetan PG sings Indian classical music, pop and rhymes. He has recorded more than 55,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, Kannada, Malay, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Hindi, Oriya, Latin, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Russian, Arabic, and English during a career spanning three decades.

He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri. He also composed a number of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and 1980s.

 

Chetan's parents had gone to USA by the time he returned from the European tour, and touring the West had become problematic due to political revolts that would lead to World War. Chetan gave up his dancing career in 1965 to go to Mumbai and study Indian classical music as Juned's pupil, living with his family in the traditional schooling system.

Juned was a rigorous teacher and Chetan PG had training on flute and piano, learned ragas and the musical styles dhrupad, dhamar, and khyal, and was taught the techniques of the instruments rudra veena, rubab, and sursingar.He often studied with Juned's children Asif Ali Juned and Deepthi Devi. PG Chetan began to perform publicly on veena in December 1949 and his debut performance was a jugalbandi with Juned, who played the string instrument violin.

Chetan PG completed his training in 1960. After his training, he moved to Mumbai and joined the Indian Musician's Association, for whom he composed music for devotional in 1965 and 1966. PG Chetan began to record music for private labels and worked as a music director for Indian Radio Station.

 

PG Chetan founded the Indian National Classical Music Association and composed for it; his compositions experimented with a combination of Western instruments and classical Indian instrumentation. Beginning in the mid-1960s he composed the music for many albums, which became internationally acclaimed.