For his outstanding contributions, he has even won various accolades. With time & immense hard work, he became a well-known personality in the Indian music industry. During this period, Ilayaraja even began penning his scores. Venkatesh, he worked on 200 film projects mainly related to Kannada cinema. After he got hired as a musical assistant to Kannada film composer G.K. In the 1970s, he worked as a session guitarist, keyboardist, and organist for film music composers and directors, while also playing guitar in a band-for-hire. With this group, he spent his next decade performing across South India. When he turned 14, he joined Pavalar Brothers, a traveling musical troupe headed by his elder brother Pavalar Varadarajan. Since Ilayaraja was born in a rural area, he was exposed to a wide range of Tamil folk music. He was married to Jeeva and the couple has three children - Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, and Bhavatharini - all of them are famous film composers and singers. He even learned Carnatic music from celebrated Carnatic singer, T.V. He is a gold medalist in classical guitar after learning the course through distance learning from Trinity College of Music, London. At a young age, he joined Master Dhanraj, a famous Tamil musician and instrumentalist to learn musical instruments. Ilayaraja was born in Pannaipuram, presently in the Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India on 2nd June 1943. He was also one of those earliest Indian film composers to utilize western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Tamil film music. Ilayaraja is popular in the music industry for his skills to integrate Indian classical folk music and traditional Indian instrumentation along with western classical music techniques. He contributes his voice in varied regional language songs, but predominantly in the Tamil language. Gnanathesikan, popularly known as Ilayaraja in the music industry, is an Indian film composer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, orchestrator, lyricist, and conductor-arranger. The latest and hit Ilayaraja songs are a must-add in your playlist if you love listening to soulful Tamil & Telugu songs.
His songs made us fall in love with our crush, made us dance our hearts out on the floor, made us cry for losing our loved ones, and filled rainbows on our gloomy days.
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His Dravidian touch to the paintings made it more unique and with full of life.Whenever we talk about acclaimed Tamil singers who touched the strings of our hearts with their melodious voices, we simply cannot miss mentioning Ilayaraja in our talks. Ilayaraja's realistic painting created an impact not just in India but world wide, he was recognised by USA and other countries. I never dreamed I would submit it as a tribute to him. We did a photoshoot with his beautiful pictures as a theme. It was photographer Mano who introduced me to the painter Ilayaraja.
She posted those images and wrote "Everyone knows I'm a fan of Ilayaraja. Actress Kasturi payed homage to him through photoshoot pictures which were taken reflecting the paintings of this late artist.
Many celebrities mourned the death of this versatile artist. The recent death of Ilayaraja, a painter who was recently diagnosed with corona, came as a huge shock. The fact the the paintings of the Ilayaraja are world famous and not only his fellow painters but also many film celebrities are big fans of his painting is well know.
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