| Name Samuel Joseph Birth name Samuel Joseph Years active 1963–1992 Movies Gola Gola Instruments Harmonium, Violin Genres Film score | 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:
References
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