Ravisankar was born and raised in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, to S. Ramachandran Nair and S. Hamsini Thankam.
He started learning music as a child from his mother, a teacher at Bharatiya Vidyabhavan, Trivandrum.
In 2015 he started contributing his own songs to projects including serials and albums, and made his debut music direction for a Malayalam movie called Crayons.
He has also provided vocals to title songs for several television serials, including Uma, Vikramadityan, Dial 100, Tenali Raman, Abhirami, Jeeva Jalakom, and Kudumbam.
anchoring Raindrops, a live musical entertainment show on the Malayalam channel Kairali TV.