Background
Maria Roshni Vincent was born in Chennai. Her father is Mr. Leo Vincent, an Engineer and her mother is Mistress Anita Vincent. She has a younger sister Maryaan Ranjini Vincent who is a Graphic Designer.
She is the only professional musician in her family.
She was educated at Good Shepherd Matriculation Higher Secondary School. She is a B.Sc Zoology graduate from Stella Maris College.
She also holds a Bachelor’s in English degree from Madras University. She has completed her Bachelor’s in Music from the International College of Music (International Council of Museums) in Kuala Lumpur and the Berklee College of Music in Boston and has her 8th grade in piano from the Trinity College, London.
She plays the piano and guitar.
Career
She has worked with the Indian music industry"s best music directors such as A. R. Rahman, Harris Jayaraj, Doctorate. Imman, Vijay Antony, Srinivas, Anirudh Ravichander, South. J. Surya and Joshua Sridhar. Her hit songs include “Adiye” from the movie Kadal and “Hey” from the movie Vanakkam Chennai. Her vocal arrangements have been featured in block buster movies such as Kadal, Mariyan, Highway, Million Dollar Arm, Yaamirukka Bayamey and many more.
Her work has called her to arrange and produce for various television shows such as Vijay television"s Airtel Super Singer in Chennai and Mazhavil Manorama"s Josco Indian Voice in Kerala and Superstar in Astro television, Malaysia.
She conducts a choral vocal group named El Fé, is the lead singer of her band Overtone and performs in various shows and concerts with them. She was introduced by music director Doctorate. Imman in the movie Kacheri Arambam.
She had sung the song “Kadavule” in the movie. She worked as a Western Contemporary Instructor at A. R. Rahman’s KM College of Music.
While she was working there A. R. Rahman spotted her and gave her an opportunity to sing in “Adiye” in the movie Kadal.
Since then, she has sung and arranged vocals in several movies" songs and background scores such as Linga, Maryaan, Kochadhayan, Yaamirukka Bayamey, Million Dollar Arm, Monkeys of Mumbai, Moonu, Anegan, Maan Karate,Vanakkam Chennai, Amen, GodFather, Ek deewana Tha, Highway et cetera Her debut single "Neethan Yen Dream Girl" was released on YouTube. El FÉ Choir She started the “El FÉ Choir” four years ago.
Singer Varun Parandhaman is also a part of the choir.
They have been featured in many movies. The choir is owned and directed by her.
The choir"s movie credits include the following: 3(Moonu) Maan Karate Sigaram Thodu Jeeva Million Dollar Arm Yaamirukka Bayamey Anegan Romeo Juliet Maryan – BGM Valiyavan Kanchana 2 The Choir has done a Christmas Single titled “Oh Holy Night” which was released recently. She has performed in A. R. Rahman’s concert “Thai Mannae Vanakkam”.
She has worked for Vijay television’s Airtel Super Singer in 2011.
She has also sung for the show. She has performed with Music Director Anoop in Hyderabad. She has also worked in Gospel Music with Gospel Singers like Gersson Edinbaro and Daniel Jawahar.
