Ilayaraja was born in a poor rural dalith family in Pannaipuram, Theni, Tamil Nadu on 2nd June 1943. He is a third son to his parents Ramaswamy and Chinnathayammal. At the age of 14, he joined in a traveling musical troupe headed by his elder step brother Pavalar varadarajan. In 1968, he joined in a music course under professor Dhanraj in Madras (Chennai). Ilayaraja is specialized in classical guitar and had done a course in it with the Trinity college of Music, London and won a Gold Medal. Ilayaraja is a critically acclaimed Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist and the first Asian Composer to score a Symphony. He has composed 4,500 songs and provided music score for 900 films in various languages in his career span of 30 years. Ilayaraja has given music score to the Telugu films like “Mantrigari Viyyankudu”, “Sagara Sangamam”, “Swathi Mutyam”, “Anveshana”, “Sankeerthana”, “Akhariporatam”, “Swarna Kamalam”, “Geethanjali”, “Jagadekaveerudu Athiloka Sundari”, “Nirnayam”, “Chaitanya”, “Abhinandana”, “Anumanaspadam”, “Mallepoovu”. MyDummies team wishes him a happy birthday.
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