KJ Joy is a music director for the
Malayalam film industry
Malayalam cinema is an Indian film industry of Malayalam-language motion pictures. It is based in Kochi, Kerala, India. The films produced in Malayalam cinema are known for their cinematography and story-driven plots. In 1982, ''Elippathayam' ...
. He has composed music for 71 films. He began his career as music director in 1974, after many years as recording
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
artist for various music directors, primarily his mentor
MS Viswanathan, who encouraged him to try his hand as a music director after realizing his potential. His first film was
''Love Letter'' in 1975.
Selected hit songs
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Malayalam film score composers