Sreya Jayadeep

Early life

Sreya was born in the city of Kozhikode in 2005. Her parents are Jayadeep and Praseetha, and she has a younger brother, Sourav.

She recorded more than 50 devotional and film songs by the age of ten. Sreya's first commercial song was on the Christian devotional album HITHAM, and she later recorded an entire album SREYAM. Her mother recalls that she began singing songs by hearing the television and the radio at the age of two. She started learning classical music at the age of four.

Schooling

Her schooling began in Silver Hills Higher Secondary School, Calicut. There she found the right terrain to toddle into the vast world of music under the guidance of the principal Fr. Jonny Kanjirathinkal, who has been her greatest support ever since.

Currently Sreya is a 6th grader in the prestigious CMI Institution, Devagiri CMI Public School. Father Johnny Kanjirathikal’s transfer to the same school was a great blessing for little Sreya which gave her even more support and goodwill.

The Great Ascent, Musical Journey

Sreya started her music lesson from the tender age of three. Her guru in classical music is Thamarakad Krishnan Namboodiri.The renowned play back singer Sathish Babu trains her in different genres of music.

She has won the Surya Star singer contest and later she left her audience awestruck in the Sun Star Singer Contest where she clinched the first prize. She proved her talent with the song “Nalla Intha Vela Parthu”

As mentioned, Surya Star Singer title opened new portals for little Sreya. First songs in her credit are Chemma chemma chemmanoru and Tharattupattum in the movie “Weeping Boy”.

Nirnayakam, Amar Akbar Anthony, Saigal Padukayannu, Malgudi Days are a few in her credit. She has proved herself in more than eighteen movies at this early age. The super duper song enno jan ente muttathorattathu took her beyond the state boundary.

The melodious song in the blockbuster movie “Oppam” had four lakh viewers in four days. Many more of her silver screen projects are waiting for release. A few are ”Kranthi, Gold Coin, Pallikoodam, Pathrosinte pramanam” etc.

Sreya considers the renowned music director M. Jayachandran as her guru. According to him Sreya is a wonder in musical field next to Sujatha and Sreya Ghoshal and his words proved right.

Sreyakutty has made her debut in Tamil, Telungu and Kannada and all her songs created sensations in the music industry.

She is the part of Haritha Sree Project, Kerala for which she sang the melodious environmental duet “Oru thai nadaam” with the playback singer G Venugopal written by Smt Sugathakumari.

She was also the part of “Ormayil Oruvattam Koodi”musical show in memory of M B Sreenivasan, conducted by the great musical director M Jayachandran.

Other than Mr Jayachandran she has also worked with the legendary music directors Mr. Ouseppachen,Mr.Gopisunder,Mr.Vidhyadaran,Dr. Praveen, Mr. Gafoor Quayam, and Mr.Nadirshah

Beginning of professional singing career

Sreya was the youngest contestant on a Surya Singer special for child singers, on Surya TV. She was crowned the title of Surya singer at the age of eight. She later competed in the Tamil reality show Sun Singer and won the title of "sun singer". She was offered various the opportunities to sing in Mollywood films, beginning with Weeping Boy for which she recorded two songs: "Chema Chema Chemanoru" and "Thaaraattupattum". She sang Yenno Njanente for the film Amar Akbar Anthony, she sangMinungum minnaminunge for the film Oppam, and she sang for the film Amaya oru Bavool penkutty.

Awards and titles

Sreya has innumerable credentials and awards to her credit. She has been recognized as a musical whiz.

She bagged the State Special Jury Award for her song in Amar Akbar Anthony “Enno jan ente muttathorattathu”.

She was also awarded the South Indian International Movie Award, popularly known as the

SIIMA award which is of course a rare achievement at this age. With Sreya it is not a surprise. Such is her dedication and talent.

Flowers TV gave her the special jury award for the best female singer 2016.