Not many survive as a professional musician in the music industry, out of
several thousand musicians enter the industry, only few hundreds survive and
composer Shamanth is one such story we encounter.
Hailing from a small town of Tiruvallur, Shamanth has always dreamed of being
a musician right from his childhood, to be precise, when he was presented with
a harmonica by his mother, he taught himself to play the simple tunes when he
was 10 years old, later the biggest impact happened when he watched a
concert by Yanni for the 50th Indian Independence day held at Taj Mahal via
DD Metro, the very moment the dreams began.
Shamanth’s passion for Western and Jazz Violin made him pick up the violin
and teach himself to play the tunes, due to non-availability of a teacher in his
town. Slowly studying the theory and violin over the years with available
material on the early stages of the internet. He later started playing Piano and
Guitar as well in the due course and he was natural at the instruments he
picked. Shamanth is a self-taught musician who finished his Grade 8 in piano,
and prepared for ATCL in piano, simultaneously while preparing for grade 6 in
violin and grade 8 theory, on which he lost the interest in preparing for the
exams, instead he believed in learning serious and hard-core western classical
music in which he befriended many great musicians in the journey.
The Music of ARR made him drawn towards recording music and Studio Works
for which he taught himself to work on DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and
recording techniques. As a musician the destiny is to become a composer, and
once he started to compose music, Shamanth became a Die Hard fan of
Maestro Ilayaraja due to the diversity of compositions and knowledge the
maestro displayed through his compositions, which inspired him in developing
as a composer on the whole.
The journey in professional music began even before finishing his Law School,
and started working as a programmer for many composers in Tamil and Telugu
industry. Later he went on to establish his own studio in the year 2007-08 in a
small place in T.Nagar which has grown in to two Fair sized studios in Ashok
Nagar in present day, consisting of world class equipment and microphones.
Shamanth Has composed for nearly 18 Feature Films across all south Indian
languages and one film in Hindi as well. worked as a composer and sound
engineer for more than 330 short films which he calls it as a passion and
learning ground while working on short films, and also worked for National and
State level Advertising.
Composer Shamanth is not only a musician, instrumentalist, programmer and a
composer, but also a well-trained Sound Engineer who Mix and Masters other
composers music to this date, and also a sound designer as well.
Working on Independent music and to keep on creating music is a lifelong
activity and a dream, to keep learning more and more is a blessing, he says.
