), better known by his stage name Reshmonu, is a singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 from Malaysia who does mostly English

English language

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 songs. He is known for songs such as "Walk Away", "Cintaku Pergi", "Hey Waley" and "Superfine", as well as for his hairstyles. Of Malayali

Malayali

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 descent, he became a father in 2005.

Early career

Reshmonu released his debut album, Monumental, in 2003 under Dhanosh Records, after taking four years to complete. Among the songs in this album were Walk Away and It's You That Matters. The album earned him seven AIM

Anugerah Industri Muzik

Anugerah Industri Muzik , is Malaysia's music award-giving ceremony. It is the Malaysia's equivalent of Grammy.-Best Album:-Best Song:...

 nominations in 2004, of which he landed three into his collection (Best Male Vocals, Best English-language Artiste, Best Engineering for an Album).

It's You That Matters was remade in Mandarin by Evonne Hsu

Evonne Hsu

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, titled Wǒ yào qīng qīng wèi nǐ chàng shǒu gē .

In 2005, Reshmonu re-released his debut album under Sony BMG in repackaged form with new material, titled Monumental: the Journey Continues which included Kiranya Tiada Lagi (the Malay

Malay language

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 version of Walk Away) and Hey Waley.

"R Records"

In 2006, Reshmonu founded Reshmonu Sdn Bhd, popularly known as "R Records", through this record, he promoted his ideology to Universal Music to work on his new album, Superfine. The album was launched in a party on 31 January 2007. Among the singles from Superfine are "Superfine" (the title track) and "The Way It Makes You Move". In mid-2007, Reshmonu joined Ikon Malaysia

Ikon Malaysia

IKON Malaysia is a reality singing competition which searches for a champion among existing or established artistes rather than among new, unknown starlets as in other such singing competitions. The programme was co-launched with IKON Indonesia and IKON Philippines in late 2006 as an initiative to...

. He also has a son named Maureece.

Since its inception and RIM

Recording Industry Association of Malaysia

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 accreditation, R Records had also signed artistes such as Silent Scream

Silent Scream

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 and Elvira Arul. In early 2009, Reshmonu launched his first fully Bahasa Melayu album, titled Harapan, for which he gained the award for Best Engineered Album in the 16th Music Industry Awards held in that year. In 2010, Reshmonu released his first Tamil language

Tamil language

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singles "Theendathey", which was a hit among Malaysia's Tamil community.

External links

• Official website
• Reshmonu at Friendster