The Canadian musician/ composer and violinist Mr. Jayadevan Nair received the prestigious award for “best original score” from Hollywood North Film Awards. This award was presented to him for the film F.E.A.R Face Everything And Rise by Annie Koshey , Directed by Manny Bains & Serge Velbovets.
Hollywood North Film Awards is a very reputed Accademy that promotes Canadian films and storytelling. Jaydevan is the first South Indian to receive this award for music.
The Indian born Canadian Violinist/ Composer Jayadevan hails from a family of artists, his grand father being Abhayadev, a well known name both in Malayalam film and literary worlds. Jayadevan started learning violin at his young age under Kalaksethram Madhu and Nedumangadu Sivanandan. Jayadevan travelled all over the world and has accompanied numerous world renowned artists for music concerts including the legendary singer Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, Dr.K.J Yesudas, TM Krishna, Aruna Sairam, P unnikrishnan, Sikkil Gurucharan, Sandeep Narayanan etc.. The famous music producers of India Invis records released Jayadevan’s several CD’s of Carnatic music, Jugalbandhi and fusion. He music directed and composed so many albums, Jingles and songs for various producers. His upcoming album is composed and directed by the famous musician Srivalsan J Menon, in which the violin is given the most predominance. Jayadevan had the rare privilege of being adjudged as a top artist among talented youngsters and got the award from Mahatma Gandhi University in 1991. He founded Toronto Sangeeth Utsav in 2013 to promote Toronto based musicians, which is very popular now. He has his own music school called by Sariga Music, Arts and Creations. Now his students are also performing well and accompanying other eminent artists.
Uthayan Canada and Nanban Awards, jointly congratulate Jeyadevan Master, for his very recent achievement.
