A R Rahman
A R Rahman is a star music composer. He was born on 6 January 1967, in Chennai, India as A. S. Dileep Kumar to a musically affluent Mudaliar Tamil family. His father R. K. Shekhar, was a film music composer and conductor for Tamil as well as Malayalam films. Rahman lost his father at the age of 9 and his family had to rent out his father’s musical equipment as their source of income. As a teenager he mastered various music instruments like Keyboard, Piano, Synthesizer, Harmonium and Guitar.
AR’s first film Roja directed by Mani Ratnam, released in 1992.
He has won two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards, thirteen Filmfare Awards South in addition to numerous other awards and nominations.
An atheist through much of his childhood, in 1989 Rahman converted to Islam, the religion of his mother’s family. After the early death of his father, his family went through hard times and Sufism had a great influence on his mother and slowly on his family.
He married, Saira Banu and has three children; Khadijah, Rahima & Aameen. Saira and Rahman got married on Wednesday, March the 12th, 1995 in Chennai. Rahman’s biography is titled A R Rahman: The Spirit of Music.
