The Isaignani (wisdom of music) of Tamil Movie industry, Ilaiyaraja, had inspired masses with his music works. He walked through the rough road ahead of him from starting an orchestra named Pavalar brothers until he got the chance to compose in Annakilli, his first film. He is uncomparable in trend setting and his professional composing style. His potential in background music is amazing. He has composed music in all South Indian languages and won the best music director award in Malayalam and he was the first person who designed songs which starts with a rhythm He had won three national awards; two for Telugu films and one for a Tamil film (Sindhu Bhairavi). He had introduced many singing legends, the prominent one being the six time national award winner Chitra. He had composed and released a symphony on Thiruvasagam. Six tunes of Chinna Thambi were produced in 45 minutes by Ilaiyaraja. His talents in carnatic music is in no way inferior and he was appreciated by most of the carnatic specialists. He has completed 10 degrees in piano in a London university the top most piano university. His both sons, Karthick and Yuvan are music directors and his daughter Bavadharani is a singer.

Ilaiyaraja's origin in Annakkili, rocked (Madras)Chennai, was with 'Machhanai paatteengala' booming over loudspeakers all over Tamil Nadu.

'Devan Tiruchhabai Malargale' - everyone remember the song, what a sweet song! I remember, as kids we used to wait for Christmas or Good Friday, to watch this song on 'Oliyum Oliyum', in Doordarshan - Chennai Tolaikaatchi Nilaiyam (Madras TV Station) as they stopped broadcasting this song on AIR in the late 70s. 'Oru naal unnodu oru naal' is yet another song that I can never forget from his early years.

It is impossible to sum up Ilaiyaraja's achievements as he has accomplished a lot for more than three decades.

Ilaiyaraja has a tremendous passion for music - evident in his playing, his writings, composing, conducting, and experiments with latest technology.

At his very early age, it became very clear that he possessed exceptional musical aptitude, he worked, over 800 feature films and many album have been released, including his masterpiece "Nothing But Wind". More