Music maestro A R Rahman created history by becoming the first Indian to win Golden Globe award for his music score for Slumdog Millionaire.
But it’s a long journey to the stardom for this Golden Boy of the music world. He’s described as one of the most innovative composers to ever work in the industry. His unique style and immense success transformed film music in the 1990s prompting several film producers to take film music more seriously.
Rahma’s early life was quite struggling. Music maestro was born to R. K. Shekhar, of Tamilian descent, who was a composer and conductor for Malayalam-language films in Keralite cinema.
In 1991, Rahman began his own music recording and mixing studio, attached to backyard of his house and later his acclaimed music compositions have led TIME Magazine to declare him the “Mozart of Madras”
Rahman has been noted to write film songs that amalgamate elements of these music systems and other genres, layering instruments from differing music idioms in an improvisatory manner.
His interest and outlook in music stems from his love of experimentation.[ Rahman’s compositions, in the vein of past and contemporaryChennai film composers, bring out auteuristic uses of counterpoint, orchestration and the human voice, evolving Indian pop music with uniquetimbres, forms and instrumentation.
His first soundtrack Roja was listed in TIME’s “Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of All Time” in 2005. Film critic Richard Corliss felt the “astonishing debut work parades Rahman’s gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman.”
But it’s a long journey to the stardom for this Golden Boy of the music world. He’s described as one of the most innovative composers to ever work in the industry. His unique style and immense success transformed film music in the 1990s prompting several film producers to take film music more seriously.
Rahma’s early life was quite struggling. Music maestro was born to R. K. Shekhar, of Tamilian descent, who was a composer and conductor for Malayalam-language films in Keralite cinema.
In 1991, Rahman began his own music recording and mixing studio, attached to backyard of his house and later his acclaimed music compositions have led TIME Magazine to declare him the “Mozart of Madras”
Rahman has been noted to write film songs that amalgamate elements of these music systems and other genres, layering instruments from differing music idioms in an improvisatory manner.
His interest and outlook in music stems from his love of experimentation.[ Rahman’s compositions, in the vein of past and contemporaryChennai film composers, bring out auteuristic uses of counterpoint, orchestration and the human voice, evolving Indian pop music with uniquetimbres, forms and instrumentation.
His first soundtrack Roja was listed in TIME’s “Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of All Time” in 2005. Film critic Richard Corliss felt the “astonishing debut work parades Rahman’s gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman.”
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