After being hired as the musical assistant to Kannada film composer G. Chowdhury once said that Ilaiyaraaja is going to become the best composer in India. Career Session musician and orchestrator ĭuring the 1970s in Chennai, Ilaiyaraaja played guitar in a band-for-hire, and worked as a session guitarist, keyboardist, and organist for film music composers and directors such as Salil Chowdhury from West Bengal. Ilaiyaraaja was a gold medalist in classical guitar after completing the course through distance learning channel from Trinity College of Music, London. In 1968, he began a music course with Professor Dhanraj in Madras (now Chennai), the course included an overview of Western classical music, compositional training in techniques such as counterpoint, and study in instrumental performance. While working with the troupe, he penned his first composition, a musical adaptation of an elegy written by the Tamil poet laureate, Kannadasan for India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. At the age of 14, he joined a travelling musical troupe named as "Pavalar Brothers", headed by his elder brother Pavalar Varadharajan, and spent the next decade performing across South India. Ilaiyaraaja grew up in a rural area and was exposed to a range of Tamil folk music in his formative years. While working for his first film Annakili (1976), Tamil film producer Panchu Arunachalam added the prefix "Ilaiya" (Ilaiya meaning younger in Tamil language) to the name Raaja, and renamed him as "Ilaiyaraaja", as in the 1970s there was another popular music director with the same suffix, namely A. When he joined Dhanraj Master as a student to learn musical instruments, the master changed his name to "Raaja". Īt the time of joining school, his father changed his name from Gnanathesigan to "Rajaiya", and the people in his village called him "Raasayya". This was done to honour Karunanidhi who gave Ilaiyaraaja the title "Isaignani”. Karunanidhi fall on the same date (June 3), Ilaiyaraaja decided to celebrate his on June 2 instead, so that people of Tamil Nadu can celebrate only that of Karunanidhi on June 3. As the birth dates of both Ilaiyaraaja and the politician M. Ilaiyaraaja was born as Gnanathesigan in a Tamil family belonging to Pannaipuram, in present-day Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India, on June 3, 1943. Balki that is expected to go on floors by October 2024 will discuss the journey of Ilaiyaraaja before he became a recognized musician. An untitled biographical drama with Dhanush as lead, directed by R. He is a nominated Member of Parliament in the Indian upper house, Rajya Sabha, since July 2022. In 2010, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour in India and was conferred the Padma Vibhushan in 2018, the second-highest civilian award by the government of India. In 2012, for his creative and experimental works in the field of music, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest Indian recognition given to people in the field of performing arts. Ilaiyaraaja received several awards for his works throughout his career. He is the only Indian in the list, appearing alongside Ennio Morricone, John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith. In 2014, the American world cinema portal, "Taste of Cinema", placed him at 9th position in its list of 25 greatest film composers in the history of cinema. In 2013, when CNN-IBN conducted a poll commemorating 100 years of Indian cinema, he secured 49% of the vote and was adjudged as the country's greatest music composer. He also composed Thiruvasagam in Symphony (2006), the first Indian oratorio. In 1986, he became the first Indian composer to record a soundtrack with computer for the film Vikram. Ilaiyaraaja was also one of the earliest Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Indian film music, and the first South Asian to compose a full symphony. He is nicknamed "Isaignani" (the musical sage) and often referred to as " Maestro", the title conferred by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London. Reputed to be one of the most prolific composers in a career spanning over forty-seven years, he has composed over 7,000 songs and provided film scores for over 1,000 films, apart from performing in over 20,000 concerts. Gnanathesikan, June 3, 1943) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and singer, popular for his works in Indian cinema, prominently in Tamil films.
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