The award-winning Indian film composer Sushin Shyam was born February 13, 1992 in Thalassery, India. Abandoning university studies to pursue a music career, he came under the mentorship of Deepak Dev while still a teenager. His prolific work as a composer of background music led to his name being credited in dozens of films, but his first credit as a composer for an entire score came with 2014’s Sapthamashree Thaskaraha. By 2017 he was scoring and writing songs for multiple films every year as well as singing the occasional song for those productions. Steady work led to wider recognition and his music for 2019’s Kumbalangi Nights led to multiple industry awards including CPC Cine awards for Best Original Song (“Cherathukai”) and Best Background Score as well as a Mirchi Music Awards South trophy for Viral Song of the Year for “Uyiril Thodum”. In 2021 his song “Theerame” from the movie Malik hit the charts. In addition to his celebrated achievements in cinema, Sushi Shayam is also the keyboard player in The Down Troddence, an Indian band that fuses traditional Indian folk styles with heavy metal.