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Alphons has had professional training in Carnatic music from Shri. Mangad K. Nadesan (A. I. R) and has secured 7th grade in classical guitar and 7th Grade in Western Music Theory from [[Trinity College of Music|London Trinity College of Music]]. He took up music as a profession after he received the Kala Prathibha award by Calicut University for the years 1990 and 1992.
He is the lead guitarist, vocalist and one among the founders of [[Rexband]], a gospel music band with a few albums to their credit. This band experimented a lot in gospel music by blending Western music with Hindustani and Carnatic. They have listeners all over the world and the only Asian Band, which got a chance to participate in [[World Youth Day]]. From 2000 onwards, he started working as a composer and a sound engineer in [[Radio and television channels of Dubai|Asia-net Radio 657AM]], a radio station in [[Dubai]]. He worked there even after the release of his first film soundtrack and composed many jingles and title songs as part of his work. Apart from his
==Career==
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===As a playback singer===
Alphons had sung some songs by his [[Rexband]] and some film songs which had music created by him. But in 2010, Alphons got a big break as a singer for singing "[[Aaromale]]", a song composed by [[Academy Award]] winner [[A. R. Rahman]] in the acclaimed [[Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] for the Tamil film ''[[Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa]]''. The film as well as the song became a huge success in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and overseas and the composer called his rendition "soulful". Alphons is now a part of the ''Jai Ho Concert- The Journey Home World Tour'' by A.R.Rahman. Recently he sang a song "Nee Yeppa pulla Solla ppora" for the movie "[[Kumki (film)|Kumki]]" music by [[D Imman]]. Another song called "Engo Oodugindrai" from the movie "[[Pizza]]", music by Santhosh Narayanan. Next one was "Yarukkum Thozhanillei" from the movie "[[Thanka meengal]]", music by [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]. He has sung the Malayalam portion of the song "Chellena oru mazhai thuli" from the movie "[[Raja Rani (2013 film)|Raja Rani]]" and he himself wrote the
===As a Teacher===
Alphons is also a teacher and the
==Discography==
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