AR Rahman Birthday is celebrated as much as music lovers around the world celebrate music. Referred to as ‘The Mozart Of Madras’, is celebrating his 55th birthday today. He is known for his everlasting musical creations for every generation and every genre. On his birthday, film celebrities and millions of his fans have wished and expressed their blessings on the internet.
Here is how a fan expressed his admiration for the music maestro and why he celebrates his music –
Honestly telling,I’m listening to his music since childhood. I have never found any other music directors’s music so magical & soulful.
He is a versatile music director.You can listen to Songs from album Roja as well as Rock star. Completely of different kind..but he did great job with both..
He is just best..!!Anytime,anywhere,no matter how is your mood,you will always feel better after listening to Rahman..:)
His birthday is special because of the music he created that touches everyone, everyday across the world. He is the musical maestro, who has been a path breaker right from the moment he composed everlasting music for Mani Ratnam Film ‘Roja”, he also composed the Airtel’s signature tune said to be the world’s most downloaded mobile music with over 150 million downloads.
Rahman : The master of all kinds of music be it rock, pop, classical, Western, sufi . and so on.
- He revolutionised Indian music with his very first album roja, there were new instruments used newer technology introduced. Roja remains among the top 100 albums ever recorded worldwide.
- His albums have in them a wide genre of music. like in rockstar u had a sufi qaqwali in the form of kun faya kun, a Melody in the form of tum ho,, pop in the form of sadda haq, so on. Even the classic masterpiece in the form of a instrumental, ” dichotomy of fame.”
- He popularised fusion music,blending classical with rock different forms of music like in the song zariya which has a fusion of Jordanian music, Tibetan music along with Indian classical.
Starting the new year with a bang: AR Rahman Birthday Special
Referred to as ‘The Mozart Of Madras’, Rahman the music composer has been an inspiration to many and his work is a window of his rollercoaster journey. He’s well known for his soulful music and plethora of awards and honors, but still, there’s a lot about him that not many people. Here are some of the interesting facts about AR Rahman
AR Rahman and his journey
Rahman was born into a Hindu family as Dileep Kumar. At the age of 23, the music composer went ahead to embrace Islam, after he met his spiritual guru, Qadri Islam.
Before he entered in the entertainment industry, he was seen in Doordarshan’s Wonder Balloon as a kid where he shot to fame for being the kid who could play 4 keyboards at once.
Mani Ratnam was the first one to spot the talent in Rahman and the began film scoring for Ratnam’s Tamil film Roja in 1992. He got a sum of Rs 25,000 for the project, and he became the recipient of National Film Award along with huge success, popularity and admiration.
AR Rahman has so much music in him that he has created amazing compositions with his talent.
Rahman married Saira and his three children namely- Ameen Khatija and Rahima. Interestingly, his son, Ameen share the same birth date, that is 6th January.
AR Rahman is the first Asian to have won 2 Oscars in the same year for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. The Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri recipient has also won 4 National Awards.
Not many know that the Oscar winning song “Jai Ho” was initially composed for the Salman Khan starrer- Yuvraaj!
Apart from Slumdog Millionaire, Rahman has also composed great scores for other Hollywood films like 127 Hours and Lord Of War.
AR Rahman joined hands with Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart and Joss Stone to introduce a completely different kind of music under the name SuperHeavy. Stewart termed SuperHeavy as a ‘mad alchemist type experiment’.
To honour the singer-composer, a street in Markham, Ontario, Canada, was named after him in November 2013.