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🎄 ICMA Christmas Referral Program 🎁
Invite your musician friends to the InterContinental Music Awards and help them take the next step in their careers — and receive a complimentary entry to ICMA 2026 as our holiday gift! (Program ends December 31st)
 
Portrait of S. J. Jananiy, winner of InterContinental Music Awards 2023, posing for their award

S. J. Jananiy

InterContinental Music Awards Winner

2024 – Best of Asia | Asian Pop

2023 – Best of Asia | Asian Folk

2023 – Best of Pangea | New Age

2022 – Best of Asia | Asian Pop


S. J. Jananiy is a Multi-Global-Award-Winning Composer, Singer, and Scholar who has received a prestigious Indian National Award & State Awards. She is a Composer, Film Score Composer, Singer-Songwriter, a Poly-genre Indie Artist, Carnatic & Hindustani Classical Vocalist, Western Classical Singer, Music Director, Music Producer, Arranger, Record Producer, Sound Engineer & more. 

A child prodigy with 25-plus years of music experience, “S. J. Jananiy” founded 3 Dot Recording Studios and JSJ Audio (her own label) in Chennai, India, where she produces and performs on select projects as a lead vocalist, playback singer, songwriter, music producer, record producer, instrumentalist (keyboard, piano, harmonium, percussionist). She often serves as a Music Director, composer and performer at live events and festivals, and is rated as an “A Grade” artist of All India Radio.

She is a Recording Academy/GRAMMYs Voting member.

A lifelong student of Brahmakumaris World Spiritual University, S. J. Jananiy has completed her Graduate degree in Economics (SMC, Chennai), an MA in Indian Music & M.Phil Music (QMC, Chennai), and, she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. – Research in Music. In Western Classical Music, she is an ATCL Vocal, Grade 8 in Western Classical Vocal, Keyboard & Western Classical Theory at Trinity College London, and holds a Senior Diploma in Hindustani Classical Music. 

Started to learn Carnatic Music at the age of 3.5 & has 25 Years of experience in the field of Music. Her 1st performance was at her age of 5 & performed 1100 Shows in Carnatic Vocal, Fusion, Carnatic Keyboard, Bhajan, Indie Music, Film music etc  including a JugalBandhi Concert with Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Paris, France. 

She holds 80+ Records & Albums to her credit in the genres such as World, Pop, Carnatic Classical Vocal/Keyboard, Electronic, Spiritual/Devotional, Fusion, Contemporary music.

She composes, produces music & sings for a number of Albums, Idents, Scores, Short Films, Documentary in various languages. 

Recently, she produced a new World-Pop Single for California-based Filmmaker and A-List Photographer Nick Saglimbeni of Slickforce Inc. 

She has collaborated with LA based producer Indian Trap aka J2 as a Singer-Songwriter (Top-line melody) to produce the album “Mantras I”. 

Currently, she is signed to score music for the Indian Tamil movie titled “Vadakkan”. 

She scored music for a Tamil Movie “Prabha”, for which her Guru Late Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna rendered his final Playback Song.

She has collaborated and performed with Legends & Musicians from India, and collaborating with Musicians globally.