Allah Rakha Rahman (born 6 January, 1966) was born into a Christian Family which latter converted to Islam in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A.R. Rahman started his music line when he was only 11 as a keyboard player in ilaiyaraaja's troupe. A.R. Rahman is renowned as a Indian Tamil Film composer, record producer, singer and a versatile Musician which has won a double Oscar Award for Best Original Music Score and Best in 2009 for Jai Ho which was also covered by USA's Pop/ R&B girl group named The Pussycat Dolls.
Social Rahman
A.R. Rahman has three children Khatija, Rahim & Aman and wife Saira Bano. Music was the inborn talent in Rahman; He was as young as four when he struck the keys of the piano. His father R. K. Shekhar was one of the great music composer and conductor for Malayalam Movies but he passed away when Rahman was only nine years old. He earned the living through music when he was eleven. He debut his first music compose for the movie Roja, one of the greatest music ever composed, and he definitely made up everyone's mind that he could do magic with his music.
Social Services
Rahman is also involved in many charitable causes, for he worked with Cat Sevens/ Yusuf Islam for the cause of Tsunami, supporting charities like Save the Children. In 2008, he participated along with percussionist Sivamani for the Free Hugs Campaign where he composed a song title Jiya Se Jiya.
Awards Received
Throughout the career span over a decade A. R. Rahman has won: - 14 Filmfare Awards, 4 National Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, two Grammy Awards and two Academy Awards, apart from it he was won the Padma Shri Award by Government of India along with Mauritius National Awards & Malaysian Award.
A.R. Rahman Filmography
A.R Rahman had sold more than 150 million copies of his music records and soundtrack worldwide for music composed in Bollywood and Malayalam films from year 1992.
