Sunday, January 27, 2008
Harris Jayaraj was born 8th January 1975. All his musical tracks for films would be a lovable mixture of melody and peppy songs. A careful look at the songs of ‘Anniyan’, for example, would reveal his versatility and his grip over various genres of music. All of his films have enviable variety and most of them are super hits. This success has made him as one of the leading and most wanted composers in South India.The beginning
Harris, born into a pious Christian Nadar family in Chennai, studied at the Krishnasamy Matric School. He later obtained a music degree in London. His father, S.M. Jayakumar, is a film guitarist who was a noted musician and composer.
Harris Jayaraj started his career by playing the Tabla and other percussions for many films under none other than the genius musician A.R Rahman. He then started composing beats for TV advertisements.
Harris Jayaraj has been a keyboardist and percussionist for various music directors including A R Rahman, Karthik Raja, and Vidyasagar. He has assisted Adithyan in various projects like ‘Seevalaperi Pandi’, ‘Asuran’ etc
The break
Goutham Menon’s ‘Minnale’ in 2001 came as a break for the young musician. The music track was quite sensational with ‘Vaseegara’, turning out to be an outstanding song. He followed it up with his music for ‘12B’, ‘Majnu’, and ‘Lesa Lesa’ and many other films.
2005 was a special year for him, as his music tracks for ‘Anniyan’ and ‘Ghajini’ were super duper hits. The song ‘Suttum Vizhi sudarae’, just like the enticing ‘Vaseegara’ became the song of the year.
His successful run continues with many more films like ‘Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu’ (2006), ‘Pachaikili Muthucharam’ (2007) and the recent ‘Bheemaa’. He is now working for ‘Varanam Aayiram’, directed by his favorite Goutham Menon.
He has introduced many singers including Nakul, Saindhavi, Srilekha Parthasarathy, Madhumitha, Nikhil Matthew, Mahathi and Suchithra Ramanathan.
