Rex Vijayan
Rex live on stage
Background information
Born	(1983-04-26)26 April 1983 (age 41) Kollam,Kerala, India
Genres	Alternative rock alternative metal
Occupations	Guitarist record producer music composer singer
Instrument(s)	Guitar, keyboard,synthesizer,ukulele
Years active	1995–present
Member of	Avial
Formerly of	Motherjane

Rex Vijayan (born 26 April 1983) is an Indian composer, guitarist, singer, record producer and multi-instrumentalist fromKerala. He is best known for being co-founder and guitarist for the alternativeMalayali rock bandAvial. He started out his career as a composer in the Malayalam film industry throughKerala Cafe by giving the score toAnwar Rasheed's segment 'Bridge'.

He is the son of Albert Vijayan, a music director in Malayalam films. He self-learnt to play various instruments at a very young age and began his musical career by mastering cover versions.^[1] He married Chintu Ramesh on 14 March 2008 at Kollam.^[2] His brother Jackson Vijayan is also a musician.

Vijayan was part of the popular Kochi based rock bandMotherjane, as the rhythm guitarist from 2000 to 2003.^[3] Even though he left the band in 2003, He continued to associate with Motherjane as a consultant. He was theproducer of the band's singlesJihad(2010),Clayplay(2015) andNamaste(2018).^[4][5][6]

He is the music composer, lead guitarist and synthesizer of the Trivandrum-based Malayalam alternative rock band "Avial" since 2003.^{[citation needed]}

He was part of an amateur German hip-hop band "Intensive Erfrischung" (Intensive Refreshment), which was based in Munich. He is also actively involved with Daksha Seth's Dance Company, which is concerned with performing on stage contemporary dance. Gibson Guitar Corporation, USA offered him to be their endorsee for their latest high end series guitar "Gibson Les Paul Classic".^{[citation needed]}. He has also produced and composed music for some ad-films with Papaya Media, Kerala Tourism Dept. etc.

Rex debuted into film music direction with Anwar Rasheed's 'Bridge', a segment of the portmanteau filmKerala Cafe. He then did the composing ofChaappa Kurishu directed bySameer Thahir,22 Female Kottayam, byAashiq Abu, helped with the background score of filmsSecond Show andFriday and did music forShyamaprasad's movieEnglish in which he collaborated with American clarinet player and music composerShankar Tucker in the songAakashame featuring Rohan Kymal on vocals. He then did the title track forAnil Radhakrishnan Menon's debut movieNorth 24 Kaatham starringFahadh Faasil. Rex Vijayan become a playback singer with ‘Enthanu Bhai' in Aashiq Abu's filmDa Thadiya. His work for Sameer Thahir's second movieNeelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi (after his directorial debut 'Chaappa Kurishu') has set a path breaking trend in Malayalam film music.^[7][8][9] Rex has also sung the title track 'Neelakasham' for the movie.^[10]

Sapthamashree Thaskaraha was Rex's next film, in which he composed songs such asThaane Pookum andNam Onnaayi.^[11] After that Rex went on to do the background score forPicket 43. He returned after a break withParava in 2017. Later in the year he composed music forAashiq Abu'sMayaanadhi. Rex's composition for the film was well appreciated. The songMizhiyil Ninnum was a sensational hit^[12][13] and singerShahabaz Aman won theKerala State Film Award for Best Singer for the rendition.^[14][15] His latest releases as music composer areSudani from Nigeria(2018),Thamaasha(2019) andValiyaperunnal(2019), all were widely acclaimed.^[16][17][18] He also served asmusic producer for the 2020 movieHalal Love Story.^[19]

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