Shaan mon , better known as Ishaan Dev (Malayalam : ഇഷാൻ ദേവ്) is an Indian music composer, singer ,instrumentalist ,music programmer who works in all South Indian languages 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]

Ishaan Dev (born 13 August) hails from Trivandrum. He trained under his father, Soman, a musician, from the age of three and later under Neyyatinkara Chandra Mohan ,Ambalapuzha Vijayan and Prof.P N Perumal. He was interested in music from childhood and was highly influenced by Classical Music. Ishaan’s journey in music started while he was studying for a bachelor’s degree in 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 in the band.

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

Ishaan Dev is now a new singing sensation in kannada film music industry.His debute song Shyloo from the movie Shyloo bagged the South Indian music Awards 2011, Best singer 2011 as well as best Upcoming singer 2011 in Kannada.It was one of the biggest hits of 2011. The music Director of the film was his buddy Jassie Gift. He has also worked in kannada movies Shyloo, munjane, Samkranthi. In Tamil his debute movie was Kai in which Dr.K J Yesudas had sung a song.

He is married to Jeena Shaan and now live in Trivandrum with their daughter Nainika.

Apart from his concerts and stage shows,Ishaan dev has also given music To Ad Films and devotional albums in Malayalam.

[[1]] Shyloo http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article3892780.ece

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