Music Maestro Ilaiyaraaja

                                     Ilaiyaraaja

laiyaraaja was born on 2 June 1943 is an Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist, mainly in Tamil film Industry and other Indian film industries like Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and Marathi.

He is regarded as one of the finest music composers in India Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, singer, and a songwriter.His songs and background score played a very crucial role in the success of many films. He remains one of the most popular composers to have emerged from India.

Ilaiyaraaja has been a prominent composer of film music in South Indian cinema since the late 1970s.[9] His works are mainly in Tamil, but has also scored music for numerous films in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and one in Marathi.[10] He integrated folk (in Tamil) and introduced broader Western musical sensibilities into the South Indian musical mainstream.

He recieved Padma Bhushan award from Government of India.He has won four Indian National Film Awards; three for Best Music Direction and one for Best Background Score.He also received the NTR National Award in 2004.