Ilaiyaraaja

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Does Ilaiyaraaja smoke?: Not Known.Does Ilaiyaraaja drink alcohol?: Not Known.He is one of the most famous music composers in South Indian cinema whose compositions have been used mostly in Tamil and Telugu films.He belongs to a poor rural Dalit family.Since his childhood, he has a great interest in Tamil folk music.In his teenage, he joined and spent time with the theatre artists as well as music group headed by his elder step-brother Pavalar Varadarajan.At the age of 25, he moved to the Southern Movie Capital in Chennai.His first composition was an adaptation of an elegy created by a famous Tamil poet Kannadasan for Jawaharlal Nehru (first prime minister of India).He got the training of playing instruments and learned different forms of music from his Guru Dhanraj Master who gave him the name Raaja.He learned the classical guitar at Trinity College of Music, London.