Harris Jeyaraj kannada Biography

Overview

Harris Jayaraj hails from a pious Christian Nadar family and was born and brought up in Chennai.[1] Harris studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School, K.K.Nagar. His father, S. M. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and an assistant to Malayalam music director Shyam and later became a noted musician and film composer. Jayakumar wanted Harris to become a great singer, but his interest was in becoming a musician and he once confessed that he couldn't sing well. Harris, at the age of six began his formal music training by learning carnatic music.[2]
He learned music at the Chennai centre of Trinity College of Music, London and scored the highest mark in Asia in the 4th grade exam.[3] He started his music career as a keyboardist in 1987 at age twelve and went on to work under more than twenty five music directors in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya, working in more than 600 projects till the year 2000[4] He worked under noted composers including Raj-Koti, A. R. Rahman, Mani Sharma, Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vidyasagar.[5] While working as an additional programmer under Rahman, he composed music for various television commercials including the famous Coca-Cola commercial featuring actor Vijay.[6] In his early years, he admired music composers M. S. Viswanathan, A. R. Rahman, percussionist Aruljothi Balagopal and Hans Zimmer.
Gautham considering the music and background score of Harris as a major asset of his films,once again teamed up with Harris on a romantic-thriller Pachaikili Muthucharam. The soundtracks of Pachaikili Muthucharam reputed to be melancholic, lilting, mysterious, and alternatively catchy once gain resulting in an as usual, great Gautham-Harris combination. The unique luster of Jeeva and Harris combo continued with Unnale Unnale.The music album oozing with energy all through proved to be a cut above the rest. With Munna Harris provided a sensational hit song Manasa which also fetched a Filmfare Best Singer Female award to Sadhana Sargam.

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