Vashanth
Vashanth Sellethurai (Vashanth Selvadurai) is an actor and music composer. He was born on March 6, 1984. His family fled from the civil war in Sri Lanka to Denmark in 1985.
Career
Vashanth started learning the piano at 7 and at the age of 9 he began to play keyboard for his father’s drama troupe where he also learned to act.
In December 1999 he composed his first song “Welcome 2000″ which became a well known song among the public. His main instrument is the keyboard, but he also plays guitar, bass, drum, tabla, veena and various percussions. He then learned Carnatic music, which inspired him to compose melodious tunes with western Influence.
He entered an academic school in 2001 and chose music as his main subject. He acquired the basics of music composition techniques and how to analyze music production from various genres. After that he completed Electronic Music in a private music school. In 2009 he finished Medialogy B.Sc and currently studying Interactive Digital Media Cand.IT at Aalborg University.
In 2003 he released his debut album “Ilamai Inimai Puthumai” in a big music event in Denmark. His 2nd music productions were sound tracks for the Tamil movie Pookkal where he also debuted as the leading movie actor. The movie completed 100 days in the cinemas all over the world during the period of 2004-2005.
The soundtracks for his second movie ‘Ilampuyal’ were released by director Ameer, director Vasanth, actor Shaam, producer R.B.Choudry & politician Thirumavazhavan. The function was covered by well known TV stations Sun TV, Kalaignar TV, Raj TV and Vijay TV.
His acting and music skills where well hailed by recognized actors and directors including comedian Karunas, director Ameer and producer Kalaipuli Thanu. The movie ILAMPUYAL made it up to 100 days in Tamil Nadu and was also broadcasted on Kalaignar TV.
Many famous professional singers contributed to his music like A.R.Rahman’s sister Raihana, Srinivas, Karthik, Malathy, Tippu, Haricharan, Saindhavi, Roshini and Manica Vinayagam. He also worked with professional technicians like Autograph movie editor Sathees Kurosawa, cinematographer Kichas, Dasavatharam sound FX developer Raju, E movie story developer Paval Shankar & Super Star Rajinikanth daughter’s Ocher studio crew.
Music style and impact
Skilled in Carnatic music, Western classical and pop music, Vashanth has been noted to write film songs, layering instruments from differing music idioms in an improvisatory manner.