Jassie Gift is an Indian film music composer and playback singer who primarily works in all South Indian languages and hails from Thiruvananthapuram, India. He composes songs for Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil films. He became famous after his song "Lajjavathiye" in the film 4 the people became a hit.
Jassie won the Best Music Director award in The Bangalore Times Film Awards 2011.

Biography

Jassie Gift was born into a middle class Nadar Christian family in Trivandrum. He was interested in music from childhood and was highly influenced by western music. He had lessons in western piano from a young age and started singing and playing the keyboard for a few local bands. He is a singer cum keyboard player of the band 'Hell City' and 'Mobi Dick'.He admired Ilayaraja and he is a great fan of Freddie Mercury.He entered into the film music industry under the guidance of director Jayaraj.Before entering films he composed songs for a couple of music albums in Malayalam. The main hit album is 'Soona Soona'.He also composed some jingles. He pioneered the use of techno music in the Malayalam music industry. His medley of western and Indian music came to be very popular among listeners. His remarkably different singing voice contributed to a unique vocal style. Jassie's first composition was for the movie Saphalam. He became popular in Kerala with his song "Lajjavathiye" in the movie 4 the people which he composed in just 15 minutes. His music contributed heavily to the success of 4 the People which became 2004's biggest blockbuster in Malayalam. All the songs Jassie composed for the movie especially "Lajjavathiye", became hit in Kerala and set a new trend in Malayalam Music. It was later remade into Tamil, and also as Malliswarive into Telugu The song was successful in all languages.

He also composed a music album, Rain, Rain Come again that is mixture of Indian and western music. He gives the mixture of melody and western beats in the Hudugaata (Kannada) film and three songs, "Eno Onthara", "Mandakiniye" and "Ommomme Heegu".
He has worked with many South Indian musicians such as Harris Jayaraj, Devisri Prasad, Yuvan Shankar Raja, M M Keeravani etc. He is now putting out songs which have more of an 'Indian' style. He is an excellent rock singer. He has composed songs for movies in all South-Indian languages, as well as for a couple of Hindi movies.

Jassie Gift has a Masters degree in Philosophy from the University College of Kerala, Trivandrum and is currently doing his PhD in Philosophy.