User:Rajeev ONV

Rajeev ONV is a professional musician and composer in malayalam. He has also composed ghazals. Rajeev ONV is the son of late poet-lyricist and jnanpeeth Laureate ONV Kurup.

Biography: Rajeev ONV was born on 3rd November 1959 in Trivandrum as the first child to veteran poet ONV Kurup and wife Sarojini. He did his schooling in Holy Angels Convent and St.Josephs High School followed by Degreein Zoology from Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum. He earned his post graduate degree of MBA(Finance) from School of Management Studies, Cochin University. He started his professional career as officer in Syndicate Bank and then Faculty Associate, Centre for Management Development. Rajeev ONV was selected to Indian Railway Personnel Service through Civil Services exam of 1986. In Railways he held various important positions in Southern Railway, Rail Wheel Factory, Railway Board and South Western Railway. He was Chairman of Railway Recruitment Board for two different terms. he retired from Railway service as Principal Chief Personnel Officer of South Western Railway in November 2019. On deputation to state Government of Kerala he had held positions such as Managing Director, Meat Products India, Director, Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies(KITTS), Managing Director, Kerala State Bank for Rural Development and Agriculture Development(KSCARDB). Career in Music: Rajeev ONV was trained in Carnatic music from an early age under the tuterage of late Sri Shertalai Gopalan Nair, and late Sri Alleppy Sreekumar. He is currently a student of noted singer Varkala C S Jayaram. Rajeev ONV also picked up the fundamentals of Hindustani Music from Smt.Usha Chadaga and Smt Abhrathitha Bannerji. Rajeev ONV started as a performing singer during his younger days. In 2006 his first album as composer 'Parayoo pathukkeyen kaathil' was released by Manorama Music. This was followed by several other albums of love songs, devotional songs and musical rendering of ONV poems. All the noted singers of South such as Yesudas, P.Jayachandran, Vani Jayaram, Hariharan, Unni Menon, K.S.Chitra, G.Venugopal, M.G.sreekumar, Vijay Yesudas, Swetha Mohan,Aparna Rajeev, Sudheep Kumar, Jassie Gift etc. Rajeev ONV composed music for his first film 'AKG' directed by veteran film maker Shaji Karun. He has since composed music for three more movies-'Kalabhamazha', 'Monsoon', and 'Thuruthu'.

Personal life: Rajeev ONV is married to Devika and have a daughter Aparna Rajeev who is a known professional singer in malayalam and a ghazal artist. His daughter Aparna is married to Siddharth Premkumar who is a journalist and they have two children Gautham and Laya.

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