Jayen Varma

Born:3 February 1961 

He 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, Victor Wooten etc.

He belongs to the State of Kerala in India. He performs with the band Trinaad consisting of Indian classical vocalist Aparna Panshikarand French drummer Jean Davoisne.

He is also a playback singer. The single named ‘The Country Song’ in the Malayalam movie Koothara composed by Gopi Sundar was sung by him.