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This page provides the list of songs sung by Ilaiyaraaja. He has sung over 380 songs of his own tunes as well as done playback singing for other music directors ...
The remaining songs were each composed by 4 other composers, Shankar–Ganesh, K. V. Mahadevan, G. K. Venkatesh and T. R. Pappa. The background score was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The background score was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
He entered the Tamil film industry in the year 1980, with the film Nizhalgal, an Ilaiyaraaja musical, directed by Bharathiraja. During the course of his 40-year film career, he has written over 7,500 songs and poems [ 2 ] which have won him seven National Awards , the most for any Indian lyricist.
Third album on Ramana Maharishi, with 10 songs, with 6 songs written by Vaali (poet) and 4 songs written by Ilaiyaraaja, and composed by the veteran composer M.S. Viswanathan. 2008 Manikantan Geet Mala: Devotional album on Swami Ayyappa, in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam 2009 Annamalai Ramanaandi: Devotional album on Ramana Maharishi.
Ilaiyaraaja was born as Gnanathesigan in a Dalit family in Pannaipuram in present-day Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India, on 3 June 1943. [13] [14] At the time of joining school, his father, Daniel Ramasamy [15] changed his name from Gnanathesigan [16] to "Rajaiya", and the people in his village called him "Raasayya". [17]
In all the three soundtrack editions, "Kanne Kalaimane" is the first track, while the track numbering for the other songs vary. [ 10 ] [ 1 ] [ 11 ] The songs "Kanne Kalaimane" and "Ponmeni Uruguthey" were re-used in same tunes by Ilaiyaraaja in its Hindi remake Sadma (1983), while "Poongatru Puthithanathu", which was replaced by "Ae Zindagi ...
In May 2015, the FM radio station Radio City commemorated Ilaiyaraaja's 72nd birthday by broadcasting the composer's songs in a special show titled Raja Rajathan for 91 days. "Enna Satham" was one of the most-requested songs on the show. [18] Nandini Ramnath, writing for Scroll.in, described it as a "love song, lullaby and dirge rolled into one ...
The soundtrack to the 1980 Tamil-language psychological thriller film Moodu Pani directed by Balu Mahendra, features four songs composed by Ilaiyaraaja, in his 100th film as a music director, and lyrics written by his brother Gangai Amaran and Viji Manuel. The film also marked Ilaiyaraaja's first collaboration with Mahendra who would later work ...