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HARRIS JAYARAJ
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Jayaraj (born January 8, 1975) is a film composer
from Tamil cinema. He has written scores and soundtracks
and played music for many Tamil films, as well as
Telugu and Hindi films. He lives in Chennai, Tamil
Nadu, India
Harris Jayaraj was born into
a pious Christian Nadar family in Chennai, Tamil
Nadu. He studied at the Krishnasamy Matric School,
Chennai and later. His father, S.M. Jayakumar, was
a film guitarist who later became a noted musician
and Chennai film composer. His father was an assistant
to Malayalam Music director Shyam and he wished
to make his child Harris a great singer.
But Harris' interest was in
music and he once confessed that he couldn't sing
well and his vocal is also not good. He turned to
music and Harris Jayaraj was an early admirer of
the work of Hans Zimmer, percussionist Aruljothi
Balagopal, A. R. Rahman and M. S. Viswanathan too.
Harris Jayaraj entered the
world of film music as a musician, programming scores
and drum–percussion for films under the famous
Tamil music director A. R. Rahman. Jayaraj began
his career as a keyboardist for several music directors
over twelve years including Rahman, Shankar Ganesh,
Vidyasagar, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Sirpi, in addition
to composing beats for TV advertisements.
 His
first music score for a commercial film was for
the Tamil film Minnale. The music was well received,
particularly the song "Vaseegara", which
made the film a box office hit, running the charts
for weeks. After Minnale, Harris composed music
for the Tamil movies 12B and Majunu which met with
high acclaim. His score for Minnale was later dubbed.
Jayaraj's collaborations with
director Gautham Menon have been widely acclaimed,
both of them being very successful in Tamil film
industry. They have worked together in a series
of hit movies like Minnale, Kaaka Kaaka (2003),
Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006), Pachaikili Muthucharam
(2007) and Varanam Aayiram (2008).
Jayaraj is married to Suma. The couple have a son called Samuel
Nicholas and a daughter called Karen Nikita. Harris'
father Jayakumar is a noted evangelistic musician.
Source:
Wikipedia
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