S. A. Rajkumar

S. A. Rajkumar

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S. A. Rajkumar Profile

  • Name:
  • S. A. Rajkumar
  • Born:
  • August 23, 1964
  • Father:
  • Selvarajan
  • Mother:
  • Kannammal

S. A. Rajkumar Biography

S. A. Rajkumar is a noted music director of south Indian cinema who composes music in all south Indian languages. He has won 3 Filmfare awards for best music (Telugu) in the 1990’s for the movies - Pelli, Raja and one jury award special mention. He won Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director for the movie – Suryavamsam in 1997. He debut music direction with Tamil movie, Chinna Poove Mella Pesu in the year 1987 and later worked in all languages. He has been one of the top music directors of film world in the 1990’s.

 

Rajkumar was born on 23 August 1964 to Selvarajan and Kannammal in Chennai. His father was a singer who used to perform in stage shows for popular music directors such as Ilayaraja, Gangai Amaren, Deva and many leading music directors of the industry. Rajkumar was influenced a lot by his father and he chose music as his career. It was his mother who noticed the hidden talents of Rajkumar as a singer and asked his father to take him to music classes. He learnt Carnatic music under Subbaiah Bhagavathar for 3 years. Then he started his career as a music conductor.

 

In 1987, Robert-Rajashekar duo signed him as music director of Chinna Poove Mella Pesu. Since then, he has scored music to more than 100 films belonging to 4 south Indian languages. Suryavamsam, Aval Varuvala, Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen, Thulladha Manamum Thullum, Vanathai Pola, Raja and Vasantham are among his most memorable music scores. Most of his Kannada hits belong to actor Dr.Vishnuvardhan with Sirivantha, Varsha and Jyeshta being the hit ones. In Malayalam, he has composed music for one movie – Vesham in 2004.

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Updated: January 23, 2014

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