Vishnu Vijay is an Indian composer and a prolific flautist in the Indian cinema. His film music career began with the 2016 Malayalam film Guppy.Vijay has attended Government Model Boys Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram for schooling then bachelor of performing arts degree and is a vocal music graduate from Swathi Thirunal College of Music, Thiruvananthapuram. He has received musical training from Kudamaloor Janardanan. Vijay has worked with composers Devi Sri Prasad in Tamil and Telugu and also with G. V. Prakash Kumar and Vijay Antony in Tamil, prior to making it into the Malayalam industry. In Malayalam he has associated with Ouseppachan, Gopi Sunder, Vidyasagar and Deepak Dev. He debuted as an independent music composer through the 2016 Malayalam movie Guppy. He was awarded the Best Background Music award 47th Kerala State Film Awards for the movie Guppy.