Madhusoodanan Jayachandran Nair (born 14 June 1971) is an Indian composer, singer, and musician.He has won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director a record number of nine times.[1][2] He began learning Carnatic music at the age of 5 under Attingal Harihara Iyer and later under Perumbavoor G.[3] He won the Carnatic vocal competition at the Kerala University youth festival four times in a row from 1987 to 1990.[3] Jayachandran began his career in the film industry as a playback singer for the movie Vasudha in 1992 and then became an assistant to Malayalam music director G.