Ishaan Dev

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Ishaan Dev
Born ShaanMon
Occupation Singer, Producer, Composer, Television presenter, programmer, percussionist
Years active 2004-present
Style Carnatic Music, Indian Music, Filmi, Fusion
Home town Thiruvananthapuram

Shaan mon, better known as Ishaan Dev (Malayalam : ഇഷാൻ ദേവ്) is an Indian music composer, singer, instrumentalist and music programmer who works in all South Indian languages. He is best known for his compositions in Malayalam cinema, Tamil and Kannada, with films such as Chintamani kola case, Sound of boot, Don, Kai, Shyloo.[1]

Biography

Ishaan Dev (born 13 August) hails from Trivandrum. He trained under his father, Soman, a musician, from the age of three and later under Iraniyal perumal, Ambalapuzha Vijayan, Neyyatinkara Surendran and Chandrababu . He was interested in music from childhood and was highly influenced by Classical Music. Ishaan studied Zoology at University College, Trivandrum. That was when he teamed up with violinist Balabhaskar to form the music band Confusion. Ishaan was the lead vocalist and percussionist in the band.

Ishaan entered into Malayalam music Industry as the Assosiate of Jassie Gift in composing "Lajjavathiye…" (from Jairaj’s For the People), for which he did the humming. He had composed the song "Kaliya Visha Dhara" for an ad. Director Shaji Kailas noticed it and used it as the title song of his movie The Tiger.

Dev's debut song "Shyloo" from the movie Shyloo won the South Indian music Awards 2011. Dev won Best singer 2011 as well as best Upcoming singer 2011 in Kannada. The film's music director was his buddy Jassie Gift. He has also worked in Kannada movies Shyloo, Munjane and Samkranthi. In Tamil his debut movie was Elam avan seyyal "2008 and released Kai thunindavan in 2012

Filmography

Apart from his concerts and stage shows, Dev has given music to devotional albums in Malayalam.

YEAR FILM SONG LANGUAGE
2005 The Tiger Kaliya Visha Dhara Malayalam
2006 Chinthamani Kolacase Asathoma Malayalam
2006 The Don Theme song Malayalam
2007 Detective Theme song Malayalam
2008 Sound of Boot Yamuna sangitaam Malayalam
2009 Kerala cafe (BGM) Lalitham hiranmyam Malayalam
2010 Ringtone 5 songs Malayalam
2010 "Thriller BGM Malayalam
2011 Thaazhvaarakaatu 5 songs Malayalam
2012 Shyloo Shyloo Kannada
2012 Crime story 3 songs Malayalam
2012 Munjane Yaro Ob Sundari Kannada
2012 Sankranthi Belakkilla balali Kannada
2012 Kai Thunindavan 5 songs Tamil

Awards

  • Best male Singer Kannada 2011 (Mirchi_Music_Awards)

References

  1. News, Hindu. "Hindu News". 

See also

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