Ishaan Dev
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | ShanMon.S.S |
| Born | Thiruvallam (Trivandrum), India |
| Genres | Carnatic Music, Indian Music, world Music, Film Score, |
| Occupation(s) | Film scores, Singer, Music producer, composer, Television presenter, Percussionist |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Website | ishaandev |
Ishaan Dev better known as shaan is an Indian music composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music programmer and stage performer in several South Indian languages. His body of work spanned across Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada . 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.
Ishaan Dev, born 13 August, hails from Thiruvallam, Thiruvananthapuram Trivandrum. He started basic lessons in carnatic music under his father Shri Soman and continued the formal training with musicians Iraniyal perumal, Ambalapuzha Vijayan, Neyyatinkara Surendran and Chandrababu. He was interested in music from childhood and was highly influenced by Classical Music. Ishaan graduated in Zoology at University College, Trivandrum. That was when he paired up with famous violinist Balabhaskar to form the music band Confusion. Ishaan was the lead vocalist and percussionist in the band. The duo hit the stages in early 2000s.
Ishaan entered into Malayalam music Industry as the Associate of composing "Lajjavathiye…" (from Jayaraj'sFor the People), and also been featured in it with his humming the thematic line of the song. He worked as music producer and as well as music arranger along with Jassie Gift, ramesh narayan, Balabhaskar etc. for there films albums and jingles .He composed the song "Kaliya Visha Dhara" for a TV Commercial which received attention from director Shaji Kailas. Later Shaji Kailas selected it as the title track for his movie The Tiger.
Ishaan's debut Kannada song from the movie Shyloo won dual awards for Best Male Playback Singer 2011 as well as best Male upcoming singer 2011 in Kannada Film Industry. The film's music director was his buddy Jassie Gift. Apart from Shyloo He has also worked in a couple of Kannada movies Munjane and Samkranthi. In Tamil his premiere movie was Elam avan seyyal in 2008 and Kai thunindavan in 2012.Recently Dev has done a strong comeback into Kollywood with a handful of Tamil Movies. Global artist Drumz Sivamani used Dev's voice for his Movie Kanithan in I viralkal song released in 2016.
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