A.R.REHMAN
MINI BIOGRAPHY
Allah Rekha Rahman was born A.S. Dileep kumar on January6, 1966, in Madras (now Chennai ), India, to a musically affluent family. Dileep startedd learning the piano at the age of 4, and at the age of 6, his father passed away, Science the pressure of supporting his family fell on him, he joined llayaraja's troupe as a kwyboard player at the age of 11. He dropped out of School as a result of this traveled all around the world with various orchestras.
He accompanied the great table maestro Zakir Hussain on a few world tours and also won a scholarship at the Trinity College of Music at Oxford University, where he studied Western classical music and obtained a degree in music. Due to some personal crisis, Dileep Kumar embraced islam and came to be known as A.R.Rahman. In 1987, he moved to advertising, where he composed more than 300 jingles over 5 years. In 1989, he started a small studio called Panchathan Record Inn, which later developed into one of most well-equipped and advanced sound recording stusios in India.
At an advertising awards function, Rahman met one of India's most famous directors, Mani Ratnam. Rahman played him a few of his music samples. Mani loved them so much that he asked Rahman to compose the music for his next film, Roja (1992). The rest, as they say, is history. He went on to compose several grat hits for Tamil-language films before composing the score and songs for his first Hindi-language film,, Rangeela (1995). The enormous success of his first Hindi venture was followed by the chart-topping soundtrack albums of films such as Bumbai (1995), Dil Se.. (1998), Taal (1999), Zubedidaa (2001), and Lagaan , Once Upon a Time India (2001), which wa nominated for best foreign-language film at the 2002 Academy Awards.
More recently, he worked with Sri Andrew Lioyd webber and Shekhar Kapur (director of Elizabeth (1998) on a musical called " Bombay Dreams. " At 36 years old, A.R.Rahman has revolutionized Indian film music and one can only expect this musical genius to reach greater heights.
Trade Mark
His music always has a Southern Indian influence.
Trivia
Studied western classical music as a student at Oxford University in the UK.
