Harris Jayaraj was born on 8 January 1975 and is an Indian composer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
24 Facts About Harris Jayaraj
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Harris Jayaraj composes soundtracks predominantly for Tamil films, while having composed for a few films in Telugu and two films in Hindi.
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Harris Jayaraj has been honoured with Kalaimamani Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Life Time Achievement Award from Konijeti Rosaiah, the Governor of Tamil Nadu.
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Harris Jayaraj has won 6 Mirchi Music Awards, 5 Vijay Awards, 4 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, 3 International Tamil Film Awards and Big FM Awards.
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Harris Jayaraj was born and brought up in Chennai in a pious Christian family.
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At age six, Harris began his formal training in carnatic music.
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Harris Jayaraj's father wanted him to become a guitarist and made him learn classical guitar from Mr A Abdul Sattar.
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Harris Jayaraj scored the highest mark in Asia on his 4th grade exam of Trinity College of Music, London.
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Harris Jayaraj could pursue his academics only up to High School, by then he always had problem with his attendance due to his recording sessions.
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Harris Jayaraj then started programming with his Roland MC-500 and went on to work as a programmer under more than twenty five music directors in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Marathi, Punjabi and Oriya working in more than 600 projects till the year 2000.
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Harris Jayaraj debuted as a composer with Gautham Vasudev Menon's Minnale.
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Harris Jayaraj composed for the Hindi remake of Minnale titled Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, directed by Gautham Menon.
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Harris Jayaraj then worked in Lesa Lesa directed by Priyadarshan.
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Harris Jayaraj paired up with director Jeeva on Ullam Ketkumae after 12B.
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Shankar later mentioned that working with Harris Jayaraj was an experience.
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Harris Jayaraj crafted a necessary classiness into Gautham Menon's blockbuster crime thriller Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu starring Kamal Haasan.
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Gautham revealed that he shares the entire script with Harris Jayaraj and provides input's from his side.
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Harris Jayaraj ventured into Telugu films with a successful album Sainikudu.
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Harris Jayaraj used a live orchestra of 84 members for the action cop film Sathyam.
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In 2009, Harris Jayaraj was signed in for Vikram Kumar's 24, which was to star Vikram.
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Harris Jayaraj was signed in for the Malayalam film Yoddha 2, starring Mohanlal.
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In 2011, Harris Jayaraj announced his first musical world tour titled "Harris Jayaraj on the Edge".
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Harris Jayaraj composed music for various television commercials including a Coca-Cola commercial featuring Vijay.
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Harris is married to Suma Jayaraj, the couple have a son named Samuel Nicholas Harris and a daughter named Karen Nikitha Harris, born in 2006.