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Name
  
Samuel Joseph

Birth name
  
Samuel Joseph

Years active
  
1963–1992

Movies
  
Gola Gola

Instruments
  
Harmonium, Violin

Genres
  
Occupation(s)
  
Music director

Spouse
  
Violet Shyam

Also known as
  
Shyam

Role
  
Musical composer


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Origin
  
Mylapore, Tamil Nadu, India

Albums
  
Nirakkoottu, John Jaffer Janardhanan

Awards
  
Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director

Similar People
  
Bichu Thirumala, Sreekumaran Thampi, A T Ummer, Nedumudi Venu, Johnson

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Samuel Joseph, better known as Shyam, is a Malayalam music composer from Tamil Nadu, India.

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From the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, Shyam had a prolific run as a composer in the Malayalam film industry, composing for nearly 200 films. Working with all major directors of the time, Shyam had scored for many hits of Jayan and the early films of Mammootty ,Shanker and Mohanlal.

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Career beginnings

Shyam assisted legendary Malayalam film composer G. Devarajan, joining him as his violinist. He also apprenticed under maestros M. S. Viswanathan and Salil Chowdhury, the former rechristening him 'Shyam'.

He debuted as an independent film composer in Malayalam cinema through the 1974 film, Manyasree Viswamithran.

Awards

Kerala State Film Awards:

  • Best Music Director – 1983 – Aroodam
  • Best Music Director – 1984 – Kanamarayathu
  • References

    Shyam (composer) Wikipedia