Franco Simon

Franco Simon Neelankavil was born on 7th October 1974, to parents Simon N.P and Alice M.L., in Kerala's Thrissur . Franco is also known as franko and his present age is 42. He’s the oldest out of the four children. Franco started exhibiting interest towards music when he was very young. He was four whenhe gave his first stage performance, and ever since has won various awards and competitions. Franco did B.A in music at Madras University.

He performs in filmy, pop, and religious music genres and has sung around 1650 songs in total, out of which 150 were for Malayalam films and 1500 for various albums. Franco Simon sings in 5 different languages. His first song in a movie was En Karalil (raakshasi) from ‘Naanmal’ released in the year 2002. In the year 2005 Franco formed a band called- Band Seven. His fellow band members were Stephen Devassy Stephen Devassy is a music artist who started from >> Read More... and Sangeeth.

They were an Indian pop band and they released their first song in Hindi titled –Yeh Zindagi in association with the label Kosmic Music. Franco himself has composed many Hindu devotional songs in languages like – Kannada, Telugu and Sanskrit. Two hits form a popular Malayalam album titled – Chempakame brought his talent to notice. The album stayed on the top of requested songs list for two years in a row.

He composed a Christian meditation album titled Moran Amekhin Sanskrit. It was a unique one in the world of meditation music. Having worked with leading music directors like Harris Jayaraj Harris Jayaraj is a veteran music composer, predom >> Read More... , Vidyasagar, D.Imman, ‘Ousepacchan’, to name a few. He has produced some of the most hit songs and is a winner of GMMA award and has several Yuvaprathibha Puruskar in his name.

Not many people know that he is the nephew of Ousepacchan. She sings in six languages namely - English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Sanskrit. Popular songs by Franco include –pineapple penne, appakkale, ready, current, brothers, dam999 and others in different languages.