Mr A.R.Rahman .
| Mr A.R.Rahman . | |
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| Born | A.S.Dileep kumar 1967-01-06 Chennai |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | ARR |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Trinity College of music |
| 💼 Occupation | Record producerfilm composermusic arrangersingersongwritermusic curatorentrepreneur |
| 📆 Years active | 1992- present |
| Known for | Music,Singer |
| 💰 Net worth | 17,50,00,00,000 |
| Height | 165 |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Divorced |
| 👶 Children | 3 |
| 🏅 Awards | Padma Bhushan 2010 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director 2012, 2010, 2009, ... Rockstar, Delhi-6, Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na, ... Padma Shri 2000 Academy Award for Best Music (Original Song) 2009 Jai Ho Academy Award for Best Music (Original Score) 2009 Slumdog Millionaire Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media 2010 Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score 2009 Slumdog Millionaire BAFTA Award for Best Original Score 2009 Slumdog Millionaire National Film Award for Best Music Direction 2024, 2018, 2003, ... Ponniyin Selvan (Original Score), Kaatru Veliyidai, Kannathil Muthamittal, ... Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media 2010 Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration 2010 Satellite Award for Best Original Score 2008 Slumdog Millionaire IIFA Award for Best Music Director 2022, 2012, 2009, ... Atrangi Re, Rockstar, Jodhaa Akbar, ... Filmfare Award for Best Background Score 2009, 2008, 2005, ... Jodhaa Akbar, Guru, Swades, ... Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil 2024, 2018, 2017, ... Ponniyin Selvan: I, Mersal, Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada, ... Filmfare R. D. Burman Award 1995 Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score 2009 Slumdog Millionaire Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director 2012, 2008, 2007, ... Rockstar, Guru, Rang De Basanti, ... Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Telugu 2011 Ye Maaya Chesave Vijay Award for Favourite Song 2018 Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song 2011 If I Rise National Film Award for Best Background Score 2018 Mom CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2009 IIFA Award for Best Background Score 2022, 2012, 2009, ... Atrangi Re, Rockstar, Jodhaa Akbar, ... GiMA Award for Best Background Score 2012 Rockstar Vijay Award for Best Music Director 2018, 2014, 2011, ... Kaatru Veliyidai, Kadal, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, ... Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award for Excellence in Indian Cinema 2009 GiMA Award for Best Film Album 2015, 2012 Highway, Rockstar Zee Cine Award for Best Background Score 2008, 2003 Guru, The Legend of Bhagat Singh GiMA Award for Best Male Playback Singer 2012 Nadaan Parinde Mirchi Album of the decade 2021 Rockstar International Viewer's Choice Award for MTV India 1999 Dil Se Re IIFA Award for Music of the Decade 2009 Rang De Basanti, Lagaan, Saathiya, ... Mirchi Music Awards for Song Representing Sufi Tradition 2012 Kun Faya Kun IIFA Award for Best Song Recording 2007 Rang De Basanti Vijay Award for Favourite Music Director 2006 Mirchi Listeners' Choice- Song of the decade 2021 Agar Tum Saath Ho CNN-IBN Indian of the Year Global Indian 2008 ITA Award for Best Music Composer OTT - Jury 2024 Amar Singh Chamkila Mirchi Music Awards for Best Song Producer - Programming & Arranging 2022, 2010 Param Sundari, Masakali Mirchi Music Awards for Critics' Choice Song of The Year 2010 Masakali Guild Award for Best Music Director 2012, 2009 Rockstar, Jodhaa Akbar Mirchi Music Awards for Best Background Score 2009 Jodhaa Akbar IIFA Award for Outstanding Contribution to International Cinema 2008 GiMA Award for Best Music Director 2012 Rockstar CNN-IBN Indian of the Year in Entertainment 2009 IIFA Utsavam Award for Best Music Direction - Tamil 2017 Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada Mirchi Music Awards for Critics' Choice Album of The Year 2012, 2010, 2009 Rockstar, Delhi-6, Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na Screen Award for Best Music Director 2012 Rockstar Mirchi Music Awards for Critics' Choice Music Composer of The Year 2012, 2010, 2009 Nadaan Parinde, Masakali, Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na Mirchi Music Awards for Raag Based Song of The year 2018 Sunn Bhavara |
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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.He first worked with Ilayaraja as an programmer in the movie punnagai mannan. Ilayaraja was the first to use electronic music in tamil film industry.
Personal Life
Rahman was married to Saira Banu (not to be confused with Indian actress Saira Banu); they have three children: Khatija, Raheema and Ameen. Ameen has sung "NaNa" from Couples Retreat, and Khatija has sung "Pudhiya Manidha" from Enthiran. Composer G. V. Prakash Kumar is the son of Rahman's elder sister, A. R. Reihana. Rahman's younger sister, Fathima, heads his music conservatory in Chennai. The youngest, Ishrath, has a music studio. A.R. Rahman is co-brother to actor Rahman.
Born into a Hindu family, Rahman converted to Islam when he was in his 20s. After the early death of his father, his family experienced difficult times; Sufism influenced his mother, who was a practising Hindu and, eventually, his family. During the 81st Academy Awards ceremony Rahman paid tribute to his mother: "There is a Hindi dialogue, mere pass ma hai, which means 'even if I have got nothing I have my mother here'." He said, "Ellā pugaḻum iṟaivaṉukkē" ("All praise to God" in Tamil, a translation from the Quran) before his speech. In February 2020, Rahman was critiqued for his liberal image after Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen raised a question about his daughter wearing a burka.
In November 2024, A.R. Rahman and Saira Banu announced their separation.
Early Life
Allah Rakha Rahman was born as Dileep Kumar Rajagopala in Madras, Tamil Nadu, on 6 January 1967. His father, R. K. Shekhar from a Vellalar family, was a film score composer and conductor for Tamil and Malayalam films. Rahman began studying piano at age four. He assisted his father in the studio, playing the keyboard.
After his father's death when Rahman was nine years old, the rental of his father's musical equipment provided his family's income. Raised by his mother, Kareema (born Kashturi), Rahman, who was studying in Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan had to work to support his family, which led to him to routinely miss classes and fail exams. In an interview in 2012, Rahman said that his mother was summoned and was told to take him to the streets of Kodambakkam to beg and not to send him to the school any more.
Rahman attended another school called MCN for a year, and later joined the Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School, where he was admitted for his musical talent and formed a band with his high school classmates. However, after discussing it with his mother, he later dropped out of school to pursue a career as a full-time musician. Rahman was a keyboard player and arranger for bands such as Roots (with childhood friend and percussionist Sivamani, John Anthony, Suresh Peters, JoJo and Raja) and founded the Chennai-based rock group Nemesis Avenue. He mastered the keyboard, piano, synthesizer, harmonium and guitar, and was particularly interested in the synthesizer because it was the "ideal combination of music and technology".
Rahman began his early musical training under Master Dhanraj, and at age 11 began playing in the orchestra of a Malayalam composer (and close friend of his father) M. K. Arjunan. He soon began working with other composers, such as M. S. Viswanathan, Vijaya Bhaskar, Ilaiyaraaja, Ramesh Naidu, Vijay Anand, Hamsalekha and Raj–Koti, accompanied Zakir Hussain, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan and L. Shankar on world tours and obtained a scholarship from Trinity College London to the Trinity College of Music. During his early career, Rahman had assisted many music directors to play keyboard and synthesizer. One of the notable works includes a Malayalam film, Ramji Rao Speaking released in 1989 where Rahman and Sivamani programmed a song called "Kalikalam" for the music director S. Balakrishnan.
Awards
A seven-time National Film Award winner and recipient of six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, he has fifteen Filmfare Awards and sixteen Filmfare Awards South for his music. Rahman has received a Kalaimamani from the Government of Tamil Nadu for excellence in the field of music, musical-achievement awards from the governments of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and a Padma Shri from the Government of India.
In 2006, he received an award from Stanford University for his contributions to global music. The following year, Rahman entered the Limca Book of Records as "Indian of the Year for Contribution to Popular Music". He received the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rotary Club of Madras. In 2009, for his Slumdog Millionaire score, Rahman won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and two Academy Awards (Best Original Score and Best Original Song, the latter shared with Gulzar) at the 81st Academy Awards.
He has received honorary doctorates from Middlesex University, Aligarh Muslim University, Anna University in Chennai and Miami University in Ohio. The composer has won two Grammy Awards: Best Compilation Soundtrack Album and Best Song Written for Visual Media. Rahman received the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour, in 2010.
His work in 127 Hours won him Golden Globe, BAFTA, and two Academy Award nominations (Best Original Music Score and Best Original Song) in 2011. Rahman is an Honorary Fellow of the Trinity College of Music.
On 24 October 2014 Rahman was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music during a concert paying tribute to his music featuring an international cast of students. Upon receiving his award he commented that being honoured by Berklee illustrates how his life has come full circle, as at the start of his career, he had planned to study at Berklee before being offered the opportunity to score Roja. During his 7 May 2012 acceptance speech of his honorary doctorate from Miami University in Ohio, Rahman mentioned that he received a Christmas card from the family of the President of the United States and an invitation to dinner at the White House. A street was named in his honour in Markham, Ontario, Canada in November 2013. On 4 October 2015, the government of Seychelles named A. R. Rahman Cultural Ambassador for Seychelles in appreciation of the "invaluable services contributed to enhance Seychelles' Arts and Culture development."
In January 2018, He has been appointed as the Brand Ambassador of the Sikkim government. A.R. Rahman will promote and project the state's achievements nationally and globally. Rahman was honoured with the Pride of Indian Music award at the first Zee Cine Awards Tamil, held on 4 January 2020 in Chennai.
The UK-based world-music magazine Songlines named him one of "Tomorrow's World Music Icons" in August 2011. For years, he has been regularly listed one among The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the world.
On 17 November 2024, Rahman received the XTIC Award for Innovation in recognition of his VR film Le Musk. The award was presented at IIT-Madras.
