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Ilayaraaja

Ilayaraaja (born June 2, 1943) is an Indian film composer. He has composed over 5000 songs and provided background music for more than 840 Indian films in various languages in a career spanning more than 30 years. He has won the Indian National Film Awards for best music composition thrice. He had completed a course in classical guitar (higher local) with the Trinity College of Music in London. Career and music Ilaiyaraja was born in a rural family in Pannaipuram near Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. His career in music composition was launched in 1976 when he began composing film music in the South Indian film industry. One of his earliest film music compositions, the soundtrack for the Tamil-language film Annakkili, earned him recognition for his successful fusion of Tamil folk music and popular Tamil film music [1]. Ilaiyaraja has gone on to compose in a gamut of musical styles: folk, disco, pop (ranging from jazz-inflected tunes to acoustic guitar-based Western folk), Broadway, sad songs, and Indian classical (pure classicals and classical-pop hybrids). Ilaiyaraja's music is distinctive for its orchestration technique, characterised by an effective syncretism of Western and Indian instruments and musical modes. The popular appeal of Ilaiyaraja's music also lies in his flair for catchy melodies. His songs, many of which demand considerable vocal virtuosity, have found expressive platform amongst some of India's respected vocalists and playback singers, such as K.J. Yesudas, S.P. Balasubramaniam, S. Janaki , P. Susheela, K. S. Chitra, Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar. Occasionally, Ilaiyaraja sings his own compositions. Ilaiyaraja is also famed for his evocative background music for films. Besides scoring music for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and other Indian-language films, Ilaiyaraja has composed two fusion music albums, blending Western classical music with Carnatic ragas. The first, How To Name It?, is dedicated to the Carnatic master Tyagaraja and to Johann Sebastian Bach. The second, Nothing But Wind, suggests in its title that music is but a natural phenomenon akin to the wind, and the album's music takes this conceptual approach. Ilaiyaraja has also composed a set of classical Carnatic pieces which were performed by the electric mandolin player U. Srinivas. This album was praised by one of the doyens of Carnatic music, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, for its the appropriate selection and employment of complex ragas and sahityams. He has worked with eminent Carnatic musicians like Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna and T.V. Gopalakrishnan. He is the inventor of a raga called Panchamukhi, considered by some Carnatic purists as faux and by the general crowd as an achievement. He has composed several devotional songs inspired by the Hindu mystic Ramana Maharishi. Ilaiyaraja has also written song lyrics in both the Tamil and Hindi languages. His composition Rakkama Kaiya Thattu from the movie Thalapathi was amongst the songs listed in a BBC World Top Ten music poll [2]. He also composed the music for Nayakan (1987), an Indian film ranked by TIME magazine as one of the all-time 100 best movies [3]. He composed the theme music for the Miss World 1996 Pageantry that was held in Bangalore. Among his most recent works are his film score for the comedy Mumbai Xpress (2005) starring Kamal Haasan, and his Thiruvasagam in Symphony, an oratorio of ancient poems performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, conducted by László Kovacs. Concert performances Ilaiyaraja rarely performs live. However, he did so for the first time in 25 years on a grand scale on 16 October 2005, at the Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai, for a largely Tamil-speaking audience [4]. The show was telecasted widely on television locally and abroad. Previously, he had performed live in Italy in a music festival [5]. Personal life Ilaiyaraja's name at birth was Gnanadesikan and in school records it was Rasaiya. His family suffered from extreme poverty after the early death of his father, Ramasamy. His brother, Gangai Amaran (Amarsingh, by birth), is also a composer and a songwriter. Ilaiyaraja is married to Jeeva, and the couple have three children. Their two sons Karthik Raja and Yuvan Shankar Raja are both composers, and their daughter Bhavatharini is a singer and composer.

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Tamil songs by Ilayaraja in 1980s
Tamil songs by Ilayaraja in 1980s
More songs by Ilayaraja, composed in the 1980s. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated)

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Classical Ilayaraja
Classical Ilayaraja. Fifteen memorable articles on carnatic music in Ilayaraja's film songs. I first read these in 1997 or 1998, and they're still fresh in my mind.
Assorted Songs Ilayaraja
Assorted Songs Ilayaraja
Melody a collection of maestro ilayaraja's compositions
Radio Playlist includes songs predominantly from his Telugu films and themes from his Telugu and Tamil films.
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Maestro Ilaiyaraaja is one of the greatest composer of this era in South India. He has composed more than 800 Indian films (Tamil, Malayaalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi), 4000 film songs and few private albums such as How To Name it, Nothing but wind etc. Recently he composed Symphony for Thiruvasakam
A Biography
laiyaraaja (sometimes credited as Ilayaraja or abbreviated to just "Raja") was born in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Although not well known in the West, he is a phenomenon in his native country. Some film composers have been described as prolific if they have scored a hundred films or more. Even Jerry Goldsmith who has more than 300 credits on The International Movie Database over 50 years pales into insignificance compared with Ilaiyaraaja's credits of nearly 900 over just 30 years. That's an average of about 30 films per year!
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Awards and nominations 

Ilaiyaraja has won the following awards:

* National Film Awards (India)
o 1984 - National Film Award for Best Music Direction - Saagara Sangamam
o 1986 - National Film Award for Best Music Direction - Sindhu Bhairavi
o 1989 - National Film Award for Best Music Direction - Rudra Veena

* WorldFest Houston (USA)
o 2005 - Won - Gold Remi Award - Best Music Score - Vishwa Thulasi

* The Kalaimamani Award, an annual award for excellence in the field of arts. Presented by the Government of the State of Tamil Nadu, India.
* Award of Government of the State of Andhra Pradesh, India, for excellence in music.
* Conferred the title Isaignani (genius of music) in the year 1988, at Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India.
* Conferred the Degree of Doctor of Letter (Honoris causa) in March, 1994, by the Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.
* Conferred the Cultural Doctorate in Philosophy of Music, in April, 1994, by the World University Round Table, Arizona, U.S.A.
* Award of Appreciation, in 1994, from the Foundation and Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America.
* Bestowed with an honorary citizenship and presented with the key to the Teanech township, by Mr. John Abraham, Mayor of the township of Teanech, New Jersey, U.S.A., in June, 1994.
* Presented with the Award of Government of the State of Kerala, India, in 1995 for excellence in music.
* Conferred the Degree of Doctor of Letters, in 1996, by the Madurai Kamarajar University, Tamil Nadu, India.
* The Lata Mangeshkar Award For Excellence in Music, conferred by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, India in 1998.

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