Sunny Viswanath

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 Tabla[2] remains his favorite. He has performed with local and national bands worldwide. He was educated at Kendriya Vidyalaya Kozhikode.[3]

Sunny composed music for four films. 1. Kshatriyan 2. Sthithi ,3. Israa[4] for which he introduced for the first time international singers Anneli Rydahl from Sweden[5] and Australian singer Seraya. 4. Sambar Sambar movie[6]

He has also done music for three albums 1.Janmangalai[7] 2.malayali penne 3.Chinmaya Geethangal [8][9]

He worked with Serena Kern[10][11] (Uk) doing the musical arrangements for her songs Lullaby[12][13] and Better to have loved[14][15]

Apart from that Sunny has featured various International singers like Zenya Bashford[16] (US), Samantha Coe[17] (UK),Felicitas Geiger(Germany)[18] Jemimah G (Australia), Keren Port (Israel), Iselin B (Norway), Heidi Jarvis (US), Violet Won (China), Khalida Saud (Pak) and also Indian playback singers like Sunidhi Chauhan, Vasundhara Das, Sunita Rao, Jonita Gandhi[19] Neha Bhasin,[20] Srinivas, P Jayachandran ,Suresh Wadkar , Chinmayi,[21] Rahul Seth, Kavitha Paudwal, Padma Wadkar , Sagarika,[22] Sneha Pant,[23] Pia Sukanya,[24] Zublee Baruah,[25] Priyadarsini, Devan Ekambaram[26]], Divya Vijay,[27] Manjari Babu, Gayathri, Afsal, Ranjini Jose, Jyotsna, Delsy Ninan,[5] Sunita Sudheer, Sainoj, Sharmi La, Sunil Kumar, Ajith etc. He has also featured actors like Suresh Gopi filmography,[28] Divya Palat and Lena. Sunny has associated with lyricists Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, Shibu Chakravarthy, Khanesh Punoor etc.

Sunny worked with Magnasound for close to 6 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 Mathrubhumi for its Film publication Chithrabhumi for 5 years and also as a Bureau chief of Southern Side Magazine.[29]

As an event Manager and an artist co-ordinator, he has done many events[30] in India, US, UK, UAE, rest of Europe, Malaysia and Australia

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