Background
Stephen was born to P.K.Devassy & Susy.
Stephen was born to P.K.Devassy & Susy.
He started his career at an early age, and has performed on stage around the world. He also holds the record for being the highest Asian scorer in Piano exams from Trinity College of Music. He went on to National Service Scheme College for pursuing his Pre-Degree.
He holds the unparalleled distinction of completing 8th grade piano at the age of 16.
Devassy"s first major break came when he was aged 18, through Johny Sagarika, for whom he did the music orchestration of six songs on the album Ishtamannu. He then went as an accompanying artist to play the keyboard for Hariharan on his European tour.
He has also accompanied the violin maestro L. Subramanian at the Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival. At age 19, he started a music band called Seven, with singers Franco Simon and Sangeeth.
A Hindi popular band, they released an album titled Yeh Zindagani.
Stephen, who started performing at a young age, has done the music arrangement for many films. Some of the films he scored were Majaa, Thambi, Nammal, Azhagiya Thamizh Magan and Hariharan"s album, Waqt Par Bolna. Hariharan Pillai Happy Aanu (2003) was his maiden music directorial venture in Malayalam.
He is one of the regular band members in Rexband, a Christian contemporary band singing gospel fusion, a musical outreach of the Jesus Youth Movement.
He performed with the band before Pope John Paul II during World Youth Day performance in 2002 at Canada. At the time, it was the only catholic band invited from India.
Stephen has orchestrated an instrumental version of the popular Rex Band melodies called Different Vibes. He has also assisted Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan with his album of Christmas carols, Breaking Barriers.
He has released his album Romanza, which was a mix of world music sprinkled with the flavor of piano.
Indian ragas have been treated with the rich use of contemporary piano. Hariharan, Ouseppachan and a Russian vocalist appeared as guest artists on the album. Stephen’s solo stage shows have propelled him to the top league of onstage performers.
Stephen Devassy made appearances in Vijay television"s music reality shows, such as season 2 and season 3 of Airtel Super Singer in Amrita television (Malayalam), and also Josco Indian Voice in Mazhavil Manorama (Malayalam), accompanying then-contestants of the show, such as Saisharan and Alka Ajith.
He appears as pianist in popular reality music show in Mazhavil Manorama television channel.