Sunny Viswanath () is an Indian composer and

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. His works are notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and traditional orchestral arrangements.

Early life

He started learning music at the age of 4 and performing with amateur bands since the age of 7. By the age of 14, he was into the world of professional music. Sunny learned seven instruments of which

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remains his favorite. He has performed with local and national bands worldwide. He was educated at Kendriya Vidyalaya

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Career

Sunny has composed music for six films. 1. Kshatriyan 2.

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3. Israa (score only) for which he introduced for the first time international singers Anneli Rydahl from Sweden and Australian singer Seraya. 4. Sambar Sambar movie 5. Cochin Shadhi at Chennai 03 6.Vanmurai (Tamil Movie) He has also done music for three albums 1.Janmangalai 2.malayali penne 3.Chinmaya Geethangal He worked with Serena Kern (Uk) doing the musical arrangements for her songs Lullaby and Better to have loved Apart from that Sunny has featured various International singers like Zenya Bashford ( US), Samantha Coe ( UK), Felicitas Geiger (Germany) Jemimah G ( Australia), Keren Port (

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), Iselin B (

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), Heidi Jarvis ( US), Violet Won ( China), Khalida Saud (

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) and also Indian playback singers like Sunidhi Chauhan, Shan

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, P Jayachandran, Suresh Wadkar,

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, Rahul Seth, Kavitha Paudwal, Padma Wadkar, Sagarika, Sneha Pant, Pia Sukanya, Zublee Baruah, Priyadarsini,

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], Divya Vijay, Manjari Babu, Gayathri, Afsal, Ranjini Jose, Jyotsna, Delsy Ninan, Geethiyaa Varman Sainoj, Sunil Kumar, Ajith etc. He has also featured actors like

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and

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. Sunny has associated with lyricists

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, Khanesh Punoor, Musicians, William Isac, Veena Ananthapadmanaban Master, Flute Naveen Kumar Ashwin Sivadas, Ramu Raj, Fazal Qureshi, etc. Sunny worked with

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for six years as an A&R and later as product manager. Also as a consultant A&R with Bayshore Records (2 years). During his tenure, he has been instrumental in being part of the A&R team producing more than 50 music albums. As a journalist, he has written columns on

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for its Film publication Chithrabhumi for five years and also as a Bureau chief of Southern Side Magazine. As an event Manager and an artist co-ordinator, he has done many events in India, US, UK, UAE, rest of Europe, Malaysia and Australia

Personal life

He is married to Priya Viswanath and is settled in Ayyanthole,

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Viswanath, Sunny 1971 births Living people Indian film score composers Indian record producers Musicians from Kozhikode Kendriya Vidyalaya alumni