| Shyam | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Samuel Joseph |
| Also known as | Shyam |
| Born | 1938 |
| Origin | Mylapore, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupations | Music Director |
| Instruments | Harmonium, Violin |
| Years active | 1963–1992 |
Samuel Joseph alias Shyam is a popular Malayalam music director from Tamil Nadu, India. He has scored music for over 300 films including Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi languages. He also composed many Christian devotional songs. He is best known for the background scores for Malayalam thriller films of eighties and early nineties.
Apart from his music scores in movies, his theme musics are still considered as the finest example of scores ever composed in Malayalam cinema. His theme music of Oru CBI Diary Kurippu, August 1, Moonamura, Irupatham Noottandu are popular even today. He is famous for creating fast number along with slow melodies. He won the Kerala State award for the best music composer for the years 1983 (Film: Aroodam) and 1984 (Film: Kanamarayathu).
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Shyam was born in 1938 to a Tamil Christian family in Mylapore in Tamil Nadu state. His parents both were teachers and Shyam is a malayalee maternally, she hails from Palakkad. He learned music from his mother who used to play organ in church. He spent his childhood days in madras city. He was the only child to his parents and had spent many lonely times during his childhood and this was overcome by learning music. During these days he became interested in string instruments, especially the violin, which his father bought him. At age of 15 he became the discipline of Dhanraj master who teach him western music which inspired him a lot during his musical career.
Shyam started as a violinist in some drama troupes during his early carrier. He was introduced to musical industry by the great M.S.Viswanathan, fondly called as MSV. He first played violin for music director C.N Pandurangan and was in the last row in the team later he made to lead row ending in solo. Thus he earn a good name as a violinist and had worked with many Famous music personalities at that times such as V. Dakshinamoorthy, Baburaj, Devarajan, S.M. Subaiya Naidu, Rama Murthy etc. He also had a deep relation with north Indian music director Salil Chowdhury with whom he had worked in many Malayalam movies including chemmeen.
Shyam entered film industry as a music director for Tamil film Etrikal Jagrathai in 1968. During these time he also worked as assistant music director for Salil Choudhary, and he continued music direction for various hit Tamil films. It was Malayalam actress Sheela who introduced him in Malayalam for the film Manya Shree Vishwamitran directed by versatile Malayalam actor Madhu. The songs in the film became superhit, "Kettile Kottayathoru Mutha Pullachan" in the movie was an all time hit. Thus he became popular throughout Kerala. Since then he never had to look back and he started composing many films in Malayalam and other south Indian languages. His notable famous works are done in Malayalam films. He is some of the few composers in Mollywood who had worked in both Black&white as well as Colour films. He is considered as one of the best all time music directors in Malayalam film industry. Famous Tamil music director Harris Jayaraj's father S.M Jayakumar worked as his assistant for many years.
His work for the malayalam film Daisy was very well praised, all the songs in the film was all time chartbusters. His another notable works during his last active years are Nadodikattu, Nirakkoottu, New Delhi, Kanamarayathu'. He is also famous for creating film theme music and his theme music are popular even today. The 2009 Malayalam movie Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded extracted the theme music from his movie Irupatham Noottandu.
He is married to Violet Shyam, and they have settled down in Chennai. He has three children. Two sons and one daughter. Sons are working in America. Daughter is settled in Kerala.
പുതിയ മലയാളം പാട്ടുകള് ടെലിവിഷനില് കാണാറും കേള്ക്കാറുമുണ്ട്. "സംഗീത സങ്കല്പ്പങ്ങള് തന്നെ മാറിയില്ലേ? മുന്പ് മെലഡിക്കായിരുന്നു പ്രാധാന്യമെങ്കില് ഇപ്പോള് റിഥമാണ് മുന്നില്. കാലത്തിന്റെ അനിവാര്യതയാകാം. എങ്കിലും നല്ല പാട്ടുകള് ഇപ്പോഴും വരുന്നുണ്ട്".
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