Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy is a famous Indian musical trio consisting of : Padma Shri Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa

Amongst the most critically acclaimed Indian musicians the trio have won numerous awards, including National Film Award (India), Filmfare Awards, IIFA Awards.

Shankar Mahadevan

Shankar Mahadevan, the main vocalist of the trio, was born and brought up in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai, He learned Hindustani classical music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing the veena at the age of five. He studied under Srinivas Khale, a popular Marathi music composer. After graduating in 1988 with a degree in Software Engineering from Mumbai University, he worked as a software engineer. After working for a while, Shankar ventured into the field of music. He earned his first award as a playback singer in a Tamil movie, collaborating with A. R. Rahman and winning a National Film Award for his song. He gained huge recognition upon the release of his first music album, Breathless, in 1998.

Ehsaan Noorani

Ehsaan Noorani is the guitarist of Shankar Ehsaan Loy. Having studied music with Bismarck Rodrigues from a young age. Prior to going abroad to study further music at MIT, L.A, Ehsaan was an integral part of two local bands in Mumbai, Pegasus and Crosswinds.

Ehsaan is the only Indian musician to have endorsed a signature line ‘The Ehsaan Noorani Fender Squire’ signature series Fender guitars, one of the largest and most reputed guitar manufacturers in the world.

Loy Mendonsa

Loy Mendonsa is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the piano, bass guitar, harmonica and is currently learning to play the trumpet. Loy was a genius music teacher in New Delhi, when he was invited to write the music for the show ‘Quiz Time’ by Siddharth Basu, who gave him his first break. Loy then went on to compose the title track for ‘The World This week’ and for the Shahrukh Khan TV serial ‘Fauji’. Loy moved to Bombay, met Ehsaan in 1989 and together they composed great music.