Allah Rakha RahmaN - Mozart of Madras !!!
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</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="background: rgb(240, 230, 140) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: center; line-height: 1.5em; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" colspan="2">Background information</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="white-space: nowrap;">Birth name</th> <td class="nickname">A. S. Dileep Kumar</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="white-space: nowrap;">Also known as</th> <td class="nickname">A. R. Rahman</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Born</th> <td>January 6, 1966 (1966-01-06) (age 43)
Chennai,
Tamil Nadu,
India</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="white-space: nowrap;">
Genre(s)</th> <td>
Film score,
Theatre,
World Music</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="white-space: nowrap;">Occupation(s)</th> <td>
Composer,
record producer,
music director,
singer,
instrumentalist,
arranger,
programmer</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="white-space: nowrap;">Years active</th> <td>1985-present</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Website</th> <td>
A. R. Rahman.com</td></tr></tbody></table>
Allah Rakha Rahman (
Tamil: ஏ.ஆர்.ரகுமான்; born
January 6,
1966 as
A. S. Dileep Kumar (திலீப் குமார்) in
Chennai,
Tamil Nadu,
India) is an Indian
film composer,
record producer,
musician and
singer. His film scoring career began in the early 1990s. He has won thirteen
Filmfare Awards, four
National Film Awards, a
BAFTA Award, a
Golden Globe and two
Academy Awards.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">
[1]</sup>
Working in
India's various film industries,
international cinema and
theatre, by 2003, Rahman, in a career spanning over a decade, has sold more than 100 million records of his
film scores and
soundtracks worldwide,<sup id="cite_ref-selling_1-0" class="reference">
[2]</sup> and sold over 200 million cassettes,<sup id="cite_ref-release_2-0" class="reference">
[3]</sup> making him one of the world's
all-time top selling recording artists.
Time magazine has referred to him as the "
Mozart of
Madras" and several Tamil commentators have coined him the nickname
Isai Puyal (Tamil: இசைப் புயல்; English:
Music Storm).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference">
[4]</sup> In 2009, the magazine placed Rahman in the
Time 100 list of 'World's Most Influential People'.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">
[5]</sup>
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