Jayen Varma Musical artist

Jayen Varma (born February 3, 1961) is an Indian electric bass player. He is known for developing tabla and mridangam style finger technique on bass guitar to play slap bass. The style developed by him is widely known as Indian slap bass, which won him fans around the globe and accolades from some of the great names in bass guitar like Jeff Berlin, Bootsy Collins, Marcus Miller etc. He belongs to the State of Kerala in India. According to The Registry of Official World Records (Record Holders Republic)US&UK in 2008 and The RecordSetter Book of World Records in 2011, he is the fastest in bass guitar playing. He performs with the band The Khayal Groove consisting of Indian classical vocalist Aparna Panshikar and French drummer Jean Davoisne.