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Jayen Varma

Indian electric b* player (born 1961)

Musical artist

Jayen Varma (born 3 February 1961) is an Indian electric b* player. He is known for developing tabla and mridangam style finger technique on b* guitar to play slap b*.The style developed by him is widely known as Indian slap b*, which won him fans around the globe and accolades from some of the great names in b* guitar like Jeff Berlin, Bootsy Collins, Victor Wooten etc. He belongs to the State of Kerala in India. He performs with the band Trinaad consisting of Indian cl*ical vocalist Aparna Panshikar and French drummer Jean Davoisne. He is also a member of the bands Afro Tala and Firefly.

Contents

  • 1 Film
  • 2 Personal life
  • 3 Equipment
  • 4 References

Film

He is also a playback singer. The single named 'The Country Song' in the Malayalam movie Koothara composed by Gopi Sundar was sung by him.

Personal life

Jayen was born to Kerala Varma and Thankamani in 1961 in Ernakulam district, Kerala. He is married to Kala Varma and has two daughters: Athira Varma and Aswathy Varma. He was working as a gazetted officer in Cochin Devaswom Board and later he took voluntary retirement to pursue a full-time music career.

Equipment

Jayen was using Indian hand made Stelsie b* guitar with Kent Armstrong pickups since 2008. In 2018, he switched to Sire b* guitars. He is also an official artist endorser of Gruv Gear FretWrapsand Soundbrenner.

References

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