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  1. Early life. Allah Rakha Rahman [12] was born as A. S. Dileep Kumar in Madras, Tamil Nadu, on 6 January 1967. [13] His father, R. K. Shekhar from a Mudaliar [14] [15] family, was a film-score composer and conductor for Tamil and Malayalam films. Rahman began studying piano at age four. [13]

  2. A. R. Rahman made his debut in Indian Music Industry with the 1992 Tamil film Roja. In his three decade long career, he has composed and produced original scores and songs for more than 145 films in various languages, namely Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, English, Persian and Mandarin .

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    In 1997, when Rahman had gone to Bombay (now Mumbai) to attend the Screen Awards ceremony, he met his childhood friend Bharat Bala. During this meeting both had discussed a proposal for an album to commemorate 50 years of Indian Independence in 1997. In 1997, the International music label, Sony Music, entered the Indian market in a big way. They we...

    Sony asked him to choose from any of its international stars to work with and supposedly even suggested the name of Celine Dion. But Rahman settled, very appropriately, for the Pakistani Sufi music singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Sting's guitarist Dominic Miller. Rahman had decided that he would definitely work with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan after he ...

    In March 1997, amid Sony Music executives in Mumbai, came a sort of penultimate test. Sridhar Subramaniam, director, marketing, Sony Music India says: "Everybody was really nervous. It's an exhausting song and Davis Martin, head of Sony Music Asia doesn't speak a word of Hindi, but in 40 seconds we knew. It was fresh, new." It got better. In May, a...

    The album was met with overwhelming responses. Rahman became the first Indian artist of popular music to go international when Vande Mataram was released simultaneously in 28 countries across the world. Rahman himself performed live at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on the eve of the Golden Jubilee of Indian Independence to a packed audience that compris...

    The tracks "Maa Tujhe Salaam", "Revival", and "Gurus of Peace" represent the three colours - saffron, white and green respectively - of the national flag.

    Personnel

    1. A. R. Rahman – vocals 2. Pete Lockett – Percussion 3. Sivamani – Percussion 4. Mark James – Guitar 5. Sara Prosser – Oboe 6. Ganesh Rajagopalan - Violin 7. Srinivasalu - Santoor 8. Dominic Miller - Acoustic guitar 9. Mahesh Tinaikar - Acoustic guitar 10. Keith Peters - Bass guitar 11. Appa Rao - Shehnai 12. Chris "Snake" Davis - Saxophone 13. Janardhanan - Sitar

    Production

    1. Producers: A. R. Rahman, Kanika Myer Bharat, Bharatbala 2. Engineers: H. Sridhar, Paul Wright, Shivakumar 3. Mixing: H. Sridhar 4. Programming: A. R. Rahman, Yak Bondy

    Post production

    1. Chetan Desai

    Stanford Raagapella, a South Asian fusion a cappella group, has created an acappella version of the song Maa Tujhe Salaam. Esther Hnamte, a four-year-old girl from Mizoram published a music video cover on Youtube in October 2020. It became a media sensation leading to praising comments from Chief Minister of Mizoram and Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

  3. Allah-Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer, songwriter, music composer and philanthropist. A. R. Rahman's works are famous for combining Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements.

  4. A. R. Rahman is an Indian composer, singer and songwriter. Described by Time as one of the most popular composers, [1] he has provided musical scores predominantly for Tamil and Hindi films apart from a few films in other regional film industries of India and international productions.

  5. அ. இர. இரகுமான் (அல்லா இரக்கா இரகுமான், பிறப்பு: 6 சனவரி 1967), புகழ் பெற்ற இந்தியத் திரைப்பட இசையமைப்பாளர் ஆவார். மணிரத்தினம் ...

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  7. May 31, 2024 · A.R. Rahman, Indian composer whose extensive body of work for film and stage earned him the nickname ‘the Mozart of Madras.’ Rahman was most widely known for his Academy Award-winning score and the song ‘Jai Ho’ for the film Slumdog Millionaire. Learn more about Rahman’s life, music, and career.