Congrats ARR!!!! The article talks about AR's music from an intellectual perspective, which if apt and very well written. I also wish they could mention how his music reaches people emotionally, spiritually.
http://business.in.com/article/person-of-the-year-09/ebony-ivory/8662/0 I esp. like these 2 paragraphs: What Rahman had was an array of millions of tones. What he produced was limited by only his imagination and that was incredibly vast. Does that sound easy? Imagine you had a book of the most elegant words and phrases. What would it take for you to produce a Shakespeare? You would need an extraordinary flair for creating great sentences and ability to arrange them in the right order. Musically, that's what Rahman has. In copious quantity. His acutely sensitive ears are able to arrange his array of tones into winsome tunes that are intricately layered. A snatch of melody can be accompanied by sounds of birds, waves of ocean or an electronic distortion being played simultaneously. What's more, in case a piece of music appears off-key, the pitch correction software may be used to make it sound pitch perfect. "What Rahman wants is the best sound for the listener. His ears are so sensitive that they can pick even micro-tonal (extremely subtle changes in pitch) variations. So when Rahman delivers a tune it sounds unique and absolutely polished," says Selvakumar.
