Joshua Sridhar

Joshua Sridhar

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Joshua Sridhar Profile

  • Name:
  • Joshua Sridhar
  • Born:
  • March 9, 1974

Joshua Sridhar Biography

Joshua Sridhar is a music composer associated with Tamil cinema who shot to fame after composing the song of Tamil Blockbuster, Kaadhal in 2004. Similar to many artists associated with the film, Kaadhal marked his successful debut as a film music composer. The movie bagged him the first nomination at Filmfare awards for best music director. A successful music composer associated with Kannada films, a few of his noted works include - Love Guru (2009), Gaana Bajaana (2010) and Googly (2013), and these three movies bagged him nomination at Filmfare for Kannada music category. In 2011 he was nominated for SIIMA Awards – Tamil for his compositions of the movie – Veppam.

 

Joshua Sridhar was born in Chennai as Sridhar on March 9, 1974. After schooling from Chennai, he learnt Western Classical Music for two years which included 8 Grades in both Theory of Music and Piano - Trinity College, London. At the age of 19, he converted to Christianity and took the new name, Joshua Sridhar. Sridhar was his birth name, which he didn’t want to change. But in 2004, he once again changed to Hinduism.

 

He started his music journey in the year 1993 where he started composing for gospel albums, apart from jingles. It was soon after his conversion to Christianity. In 1996, he entered film music where he worked as a keyboard player and programmer for many Indian film composers including A. R. Rahman and Mani Sharma. In 2004, he got his big break to films through Kaadal, and since then he has given many memorable compositions for Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada languages. He composed music for Malayalam hit, Keerthi Chakra, which included one Hindi track - "Khuda Se Mannath” sung by Kailash Kher and Tamil track - "Pooncholai Kiliye", sung by Karthik and Asha G. Menon.

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Updated: February 09, 2016

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