Donan Murray Guitar / Singer / Composer

Donan Murray is a versatile and exciting musician with a history of playing Jazz, Rock, Pop and experimental music. He performed with Juravi, V6 and Nemesis Avenue some of 's most popular rock bands in the early 1990’s. Donan has performed in various cities across and also internationally over the last 25 years!

As a music composer he has been making music since 1997 for advertisements, corporate films, multimedia, audio texts and radio- television networks. For nearly 2 years Donan worked on the vocal postproduction of songs in Tamil and Telegu for UTV (Regional Disney Cartoon channels).

Donan started experimenting with Indian music when he started performing with Paul Jacob of Bodhi Muzzik in 1998. Paul and Donan were part of many successful bands in their school days. Three years of learning Carnatic music on the Veena continued his journey with experimental music. Donan is currently working in collaboration with Funky Bodhi a world music platform created by Paul Jacob of Bodhi Muzzik.

An active recording and stage musician his passion is performing and working with original, alternative and experimental music. A list of landmark performances 1 Independence Rock Festival - Rang Bhavan Mumbai with rock band Juravi in 2001 2 The Indian Jazz Yatra performances in Pune and Mumbai with The Tommy Menezes Quintet in 2002 3 Sacred Music Festival with Oikyotaan in Berlin, Germany in December 2003 4 Chennai Sangamam folk festivals launches at IIT Chennai in Jan 2007 & 2008 and at the Madras University auditorium in January 2009. 5 Tour of China – (Beijing, Nanjing and Xiachow) with the Indian show ‘Ey Aa O’ by The Joint family Productions in March 2008. 6 ‘The 11th Rainforest world music festival’ in Sarawak, Malaysia in June 2008 with the global world music band Oikyotaan.

Some Regional Film recordings 1. Ramani Bharadwaj Vocals in - Vasool Raja MBBS, Jay Jay, (Tamil) 2. Yuvan Shankar Raja Guitar on song in - Kannamoochi Yain ada (Tamil) 3. Vishal & Shekar Guitar on song in - Home delivery () 4. A.R. Rahman Guitar in the film – Boys, background score. (Tamil) 4. Suresh Peters Guitar on Songs in the film ‘ Ravana Prabhu, Runway, Aparajeetham’ () 5. Ousepachan Guitar on songs in - Udayaan, Thaskaraveeran, Vajarum, July 4th, College Kumaran. (Malayalam) 6. Gopi Sundar Guitar on Background score of - Poi solla poromay, Pudichiruku(Tamil), Big B, Notebook, Saagar alias Jackie, Usthad Hotel. 7. Alphonse Guitar on songs of Mamooty hit – ‘Big B’, Adhisiyan (Malayalam) 8. Paul Jacob Guitar on - Allari (Telegu), ECR, Thalaimagan(Tamil), Kathai (Tamil) 9, Harris Jeyaraj Guitar - OK OK, Maatraan,Thupakki, Irandam Ulugam Yaan. Donan can be contacted at Mobile 9884066850 / 9566218791 Email [email protected] [email protected]