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Stephen Devassy (born 23 February 1981) is an Indian musician hailing from Palakkad, Kerala. He started his career at a very early age, and has performed on stage around the world. Stephen is the founder of Musik Lounge, an audio technology school and studio in Chennai.
Devassy's first major break came when he was aged 18, through Johny Sagarika, for whom he did the music orchestration of six songs on the album Ishtamannu. He then went as an accompanying artist to play the keyboard for Hariharan on his European tour. He has also accompanied the violin maestro L. Subramanian at the Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival.
At age 19, he started a music band called Seven, with singer Franco Simon and guitarist Sangeeth Pavithran. A Indian pop band, they released an album titled YehZindagani
Stephen, who started performing at a young age, has done the music arrangement for many films. Some of the films he scored were Majaa, Thambi, Nammal, Azhagiya Thamizh Magan and Hariharan's album, Waqt Par Bolna.
Hariharan Pillai Happy Aanu (2003) was his maiden music directorial venture in Malayalam.Lyrics was written by Famous young lyricst Rajeev Alunkal.All songs in this picture is still super hits. The film "KQ" (2013) by Baiju Johnson, a story of two hard working friends also had a touch of Stephen's music. Survival thriller of Superstar Mohanlal's "Neerali" (2018) directed and co-edited by Ajoy Varma is another milestone in his music career .
He is one of the regular band members in Rexband, a Christian contemporary band singing gospel fusion, a musical outreach of the Jesus Youth Movement. He performed with the band before Pope John Paul II during World Youth Day performance in 2002 at Canada. At the time, it was the only catholic band invited from India. Stephen has orchestrated an instrumental version of the popular Rexband melodies called Different Vibes.
In association with Kosmic Music, Stephen has also set to tune to a background of Western music, Sanskrit slokas, mantras and verses from the Upanishads, called Sacred Chants of Kosmic Music, and albums of holy chants on Ganesha, Shiva and Vishnu.
He has also assisted Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan with his album of Christmas carols, Breaking Barriers..
He has released his album Romanza, which was a mix of world music sprinkled with the flavor of piano. Indian ragas have been treated with the rich use of contemporary piano. Hariharan, Ouseppachan and a Russian vocalist appeared as guest artists on the album.
Stephen's solo stage shows have propelled him to the top league of onstage performers.
Stephen did the role of an ideal judge in Amrita TV show Superstar Junior (2016), Top Singer (2018-2019) of Flowers channel and currently he is in the panel of most famous music contest Star singer of Asianet.
He got several other opportunities like being guest in many other TV shows. Super Singer Season 1 (2008), Super Singer season 2 (2021) of Vijay TV, Indian voice season 1 (2012) of Mazhavil manorama are few of them.
He was also been guest in many Hindi television shows like The Voice India kids Season 2 (2017) of AND TV, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs (2017) of Zee TV and in the most famous Sony TV show Indian Idol season 12 (2020-2021).
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