He comes from the musical family of the Cherthala sisters (Malayalam drama artists),[2] his grandmother Janaki being one of the six.

[1] Sabareesh was born in a musical family as one of the grandson of late Janaki of Cherthala Sisters.

He is born on 5 August 1989 to Chandrasekharan Pillai & Vanaja Chandrasekhar.He studied vocal music under Tomy Thomas, P.Subramaniam and got trained violin under T. M. Abdul Hazeez at the age of 5.

While at school he secured 1st prize thrice in CBSE youth festival in violin in consecutive years.

In early 2016 a cover album, created by his band Immortal Raaga[5] was recognised by the BBC in the Radio Play category.