Career
She made her debut in the Malayalam film industry after doing some jingles, with "Thane padum.." in ‘Arabikkatha". Other hit numbers soon followed including ‘We are in Love’ (Minnaminnikoottam), ‘Chiraku veeshi’ (‘Violin’) and ‘Athira’ (Apoorvaragam), Vaakkinullile (Ozhimuri), Muthumani mazhayay (Idiots), Neelakarmukil (Cleopatra), ee pooveyilil (Pakida), Zindagi ki Raah mein (Angry Babies in love), Mazhanila Kulirumai (Vikramadhithyan) and Enthaanu Khalbe (KL 10 Patthu). Soumya was born on 21 July 1984 in a musical family in Ernakulam.
She has done her graduation in Botany from Street.Teresa’s college and further full-time post graduation in management from TKM Institute of Management, Kollam.
She is currently working as recruiter in Xerox Services in Infopark, Ernakulam. Soumya is looking forward to the release of ‘Vikramadithyan’ which has superstar Mammootty’s son Dulquer Salman and Namitha Pramod in lead roles.
She has sung ‘Mazhanila Kulirumai’, a duet with Najim Arshad in the movie. She is a disciple of renowned musicians Sri.
Cochin Viswanathan and Sri.
Mohan Kumar. She started her singing career through Jingles (Lunar footwears) with the help of national award winning music director Bijibal which paved a way for winning the opportunity for singing in her first film Arabikadha. A few of her popular jingles would include station anthem-Mazhathum Veylathum for Club FM 94.3, Nilakkatha Jeevathalam for visual media-Media one, Dhathri et cetera
Soumya was in-turn introduced to films by Bijibal through Arabikadha (thane padum veene).
Other music directors with whom she has worked include Nandhu Kartha for the movie Idiots and Sangeetha Varma for the movie Cleopatra.
