| Names |
A.R. (Allahrakka)
RAHMAN (Birth name: A.S. Dileep Kumar) |
| Date of
Birth |
January 06, 1966
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. |
| Identity |
Indian composer,
singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and
multi-instrumentalist. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 2007: He entered the Limca
Book of Records as "Indian of the Year for Contribution to
Popular Music".
- December 12, 2008: His
non-film album Connections was released on this day.
- November 24, 2009: He
performed at a White House state dinner arranged by US
President Barack Obama during an official visit by Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on this day.
- 2009: For his Slumdog
Millionaire score, he won the Broadcast Film Critics
Association Award, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original
Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and two Academy
Awards (Best Original Score and Best Original Song, the
latter shared with Gulzar) at the 81st Academy Awards.
- 2010: He received the
Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest
civilian honour.
- August 2011: The UK based
World Music magazine Songlines named him one of 'Tomorrow's
World Music Icons'.
- November 2013: A street was
named in his honour in Markham, Ontario, Canada.
- October 24, 2014: He was
awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music.
- October 04, 2015: Govt of
Seychelles named him Cultural Ambassador for Seychelles in
appreciation of the "invaluable services contributed to
enhance Seychelles' Arts and Culture development."
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| Special
Achievements / Events |
- His works are notable for integrating Eastern classical
music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and
traditional orchestral arrangements.
- He has won two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a
BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards,
fifteen Filmfare Awards and thirteen Filmfare Awards South
in addition to numerous other awards and nominations.
- His extensive body of work for film and the stage earned
him the nickname "the Mozart of Madras" and several Tamil
commentators and fans have coined him the nickname Isai
Puyal (English: Music Storm).
- Having set up his own in-house studio called Panchathan
Record Inn at Chennai, his film scoring career began in the
early 1990s with the Tamil film Roja.
- Rahman is one of the world's all-time top selling
recording artists.
- He has garnered particular acclaim for redefining
contemporary Indian film music and thus contributing to the
success of several films.
- Rahman is currently one of the highest paid composers of
the motion picture industry.
- He has also become a notable humanitarian and
philanthropist, donating and raising money for beneficial
causes and supporting charities.
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