Mejo Joseph

Mejo Josseph
Birth name	Mejo Josseph
Also known as	Mejjo Josseph
Born	(1981-01-28) 28 January 1981
Genres	World, Hard rock, Pop music, Gospel, Folk music
Occupation(s)	Music director, Playback singer, Actor
Years active	2006–present

Mejo Joseph is a music director from South India. He made his debut in the Malayalam movie Notebook. He has composed several songs multilingually for films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. He also has several albums and singles in the aforementioned languages to his credit and is also a composer and vocalist for several adfilms.

Personal life

Mejo was born to Joseph and Rosemary, belonging to a Roman Catholic Syrian Christian family from Thrissur, Kerala, on 28 January 1981. He did his schooling at Don Bosco High School, Irinjalakuda. Mejo did his Bachelors Degree in Commerce from Christ College, Irinjalakuda and he completed his education with the Masters Degree in Business Administration in Marketing and Finance from Sree Saraswathi Thyagaraja College, Pollachi. He is also a diploma holder in Sound Engineering from the Riyan Institute of Film Technology, Ernakulam. Mejo is married to Merrin, a businesswoman. The couple has four children, including Abdiel Joseph. He is the brother-in-law of the popular filmmaker Rosshan Andrrews.

Career

Mejo has been passionate about music since his early childhood and begin his quest and experimentation with music through his debut in 2006 through the Malayalam movie Notebook which was directed by his brother-in-law Roshan Andrews. The soundtrack of this film won him immediate attention. He debuted as an actor too, in this film through his heartwarming character 'Firoz', a music enthusiast. He later worked with Johny Antony for the movie Cycle. The music of Cycle also became a superhit and Mejo's talent was highly acclaimed.

Slowly, yet steadily, he climbed the ladder to become one of the most loved music composers in the South Indian Film Industry.

Mejo has been an Executive Member of the FEFKA Music Directors Union (FEMU) and currently holds the position of the Vice President for the same.

Mejo debuted as a Producer for his 2021 film Innu Muthal by being one among the four producers under the banner THE GREAT INDIAN CINEMAS. In 2023 he did music for Thaaram Theertha Koodaram starring Karthik Ramakrishnan written and directed by Arjun Prabhakaran and Gokul Ramakrishnan respectively.

Discography

As Music Director and Singer

Year	Film	Songs	BGM	Language	Singer
2006	Notebook	Y	N	Malayalam	Yes
2009	Cycle	Y	N		No
2010	Kanmazha Peyyum Munpe	Y	N
2011	Traffic	Y	Y		Yes
2012	Chapters	Y	Y
	Entry	Y	Y		No
	Telugabbai	Y	N	Telugu Language	Yes
2013	Chennaiyil Oru Naal	Y	Y	Tamil Language	No
2014	Hangover	Y	Y	Malayalam	No
	Konthayum Poonoolum	Y	Y
	Law point	Y	N
2017	Y	N	Y
2017	C/O Saira Banu	Y	Y
2019	Vaarikkuzhiyile Kolapathakam	Y	Y
2021	Cheraathukal	Y	Y
2021	Innu Muthal	Y	Y		Yes
2022	Njaan Michael	Y	Y		No
2023	Kaipola	Y	Y		Yes
2023	Thaaram Theertha Koodaram movie	Y	Y		No
2023	Nannayikoode	Y	Y
2023	The Third Murder	Y	Y		Yes
2023	Nanchinavadu	Y	Y	Telugu Language	No
2024	Gangs Of Sukumara Kurup	Y	N	Malayalam	No

As actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2006	Notebook	Firoz	Debut
2019	Vaarikkuzhiyile Kolapathakam	Eldose

Albums and Singles

Year	Album	Genre	Language	Notes
2004	Manicheppu	World	Malayalam	Jyotsna Radhakrishnan won the Kerala State Film Critics Award for the song Hridayathin Manicheppu
2009	Naattile Thaaram by RADIO MANGO	Pop
2016	Genesis		Malayalam, Tamil
2017	Destiny - THE DREAM (Single)		English
2018	There is no Goodbye (Single)
2021	Mayathe (Single)		Malayalam
	Kathakal Neele (Single)
	Mystery (Single)		English
2022	En Pathi Nee Thanedee (Single)		Tamil

Ad films

Year	Brand
2023	Willy White
	Lifecare Pharmaceuticals
	Quality Food Products
2021	Walkaroo
	Khind
2020	Favourite Homes
2018	Lifecare Adult Pullups
	KIMS Liver Transplant
2017	Joy Alukkas
2016	Somans
	Mahalekshmi Silks the Classics
2015	Kent Palm
	Kitex Dezire
	Kitex Trawellday
2014	Mahalakshmi Silks

External links

• Mejo Joseph at IMDb