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"I wasn't too happy with the I-don't-want-to-listen-to-it attitude of our
youngsters towards film music. Why can't we get our guys to listen to our
own music rather than to Michael Jackson? I didn't want us to lose the
market to the West. The music had to be cool and rooted, and yet had to
branch out. It was like the wild imagination of a child... but it worked...
it did travel beyond Madras and attract people."
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Allah Rakha Rahman was born A.S. Dileep Kumar on January 6, 1966, in Madras
(now Chennai), India, to a musically affluent family. Dileep started
learning the piano at the age of 4, and at the age of 9, his father passed
away. Since the pressure of supporting his family fell on him, he joined
Ilayaraja's troupe as a keyboard player at the age of 11. He dropped out of
school as a result of this and traveled all around the world with various
orchestras.
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A. R. Rahman
Why He's No. 3
More recently, he worked with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Shekhar Kapur
(director of Elizabeth (1998)) on a musical called "Bombay Dreams." At 36
years old, A.R. Rahman has revolutionized Indian film music and one can only
expect this musical genius to reach greater heights.
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Back StageSince Roja hit movie screens in South India in 1992, A.R. Rahman
has been redefining the country's widely popular film music. Generally
regarded as the finest Indian film composer of his time (and certainly the
most commercially successful), Rahman produced music for nearly 35
wide-screen releases during his first five years in the industry. He has
worked with many of his country's brightest music stars and a growing list
of international luminaries like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Zakir Hussain, L.
Shankar, Apache Indian, and David Byrne.
Born A.S. Dileep Kumar on January 6th, 1966, in Madras, India, Allah Rakha
Rahman was exposed to music from the time he was a child, entered in
classical piano studies by his parents at the age of four. At 16, he quit
school and was following in his father's footsteps (K.A. Sekhar was a
successful film musician, arranger, and conductor himself), working
full-time as a session musician on soundtracks under the popular South
Indian composer Illaiyaraja. The monotony soon grew tiring however, and at
the suggestion of a colleague, Rahman tried his hand at television
commercials, eventually composing over 300 jingles in just five years. It
wasn't until 1989 that Rahman planted the first seeds of his film career.
That year, he began acquiring the equipment and organizing the sound library
for his Panchathan Record Inn. When Sharada Trilok's ad for Leo Coffee (for
which Rahman penned the music) won her an award, she introduced the young
composer to her cousin, Mani Ratnam. Impressed with his work, the director
signed Rahman to compose the music for K. Balachander's 1992 film Roja.
Rahman's score, a colorful, uncluttered combination of pop, rock, reggae,
and his country's traditional music, reshaped the genre, winning him three
awards for Best Music Director. Roja became the equivalent of an Indian
crossover success. Originally filmed in South Indian Tamil, it was re-dubbed
(and its soundtrack re-recorded) in Hindi, the language of North India's
famous film center "Bollywood." His star on the rise, Rahman proceeded to
compose music for six films in 1993 and nine in 1994 including the score for
Ratnam's Bombay (1995), the story of a Hindu/Muslim marriage in a time of
heated relations between the two cultures. Rahman's score displayed a
characteristic (and appropriate) disregard for the confines of culture, be
they Eastern or Western, once again mixing traditional and modern elements.
Bombay was hugely successful and the movie's theme was featured on Talvin
Singh's Soundz of the Asian Underground compilation.
Rahman became the first Indian artist to sign with Sony Music, negotiating a
three-year contract in 1997. His premier release for the label, Vande
Mataram (his first collection of non-film music), was a tribute to India,
commemorating 50 years of the country's independence. The album reached
record stores in 28 countries on August 15th of that year. Rahman finally
seemed poised on the brink of the international success he desired.
Performances were booked in Europe, Canada, and the United States during the
final years of the century and a session was arranged with singer David
Byrne (owner of the Luaka Bop label and a Rahman fan). Andrew Lloyd Webber
chose Rahman to compose the music for his Bombay Dreams, a musical based on
the "Bollywood" film industry. The pair began work on the project in London
during the second half of 2000.
Rahman has won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for
Slumdog Millionaire, as well as the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Music for the
same film. He created history again by winning the Oscar for Best Original
Background Score and Best Original Song (Jai Ho) for Slumdog Millionaire. In
2009, not only tow Oscars, but Rahman has won two Filmfare Awards also -
Best Music Director for Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Best Background Score for
Jodhaa Akbar.
ForcasteDue to some personal crisis, Dileep Kumar embraced Islam and came to
be known as A.R. Rahman. In 1987, he moved to advertising, where he composed
more than 300 jingles over 5 years. In 1989, he started a small studio
called Panchathan Record Inn, which later developed into one of the most
well-equipped and advanced sound recording studios in India.
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