He then worked in Lesa Lesa directed by Priyadarshan. Most of the tunes from the Tamil version were retained in the Hindi version too, and only two fresh tunes were composed. He also composed for the Hindi remake of Minnale titled Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, also directed by Gautham Menon. The following soundtrack albums 12B and Majunu met with high acclaim and praise. He received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil for his work in Minnale, breaking the 9 years continuous record of A. The album was well received, particularly the song Vaseegara sung by Bombay Jayashri was exceptionally popular. Harris debuted as a composer with Gautham Vasudev Menon's Minnale. Rahman, Salil Chowdhury, and Hans Zimmer. In his early years, he admired music composers M. Rahman, he composed music for various television commercials including a Coca-Cola commercial featuring actor Vijay. While working as an additional programmer under A. In his early years as a musician, Harris have worked in movie soundtracks and film scores of various popular movies including Mudhalvan, Taj Mahal, Jeans, Kandukondain Kandukondain, Ullasam, Poovellam Kettuppar, Muthu, Padayappa, Ratchagan, Aravindhan, Indian, Seevalaperi Pandi and Asuran. Rahman, Sadhu Kokila, Mani Sharma, Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Sirpi, Suresh Peters, Chandrabose, Shyam, Ouseppachan, Adithyan and Vidyasagar. Between 19, he worked under noted composers including Raj–Koti, A. He 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. Later he started playing keyboard and developed interest over synthesizers. Having been trained in classical guitar, Harris completed Grade VIII exams conducted by the Trinity College, London. Harris could pursue his academics only up to High School, by then he always had problem with his attendance due to his recording sessions. He started his music career as a guitarist in 1987 at age twelve under M. Harris scored the highest mark in Asia on his 4th grade exam of Trinity College of Music, London. His father wanted him to become a guitarist and made him learn classical guitar from Mr. Following two distressing bomb blast incidents he became more religiously inclined and young Harris had to take over the family responsibility. Jamuna Rani, P.Susheela and Malayalam music director Shyam. Janaki, Shankar Ganesh, S.P.Balasubramaniam, K. Raghavan, M.S.Viswanathan, Soolamangalam Sisters, K. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and have frequently colabrated with T. At age six, Harris began his formal training in carnatic music. He studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School. His father hails from a Tamil Christian family and his mother from a Hindu Naidu family. Harris Jayaraj was born and brought up in Chennai in a Christian family. Educational and Research Institute Honorary Doctorate of Letters for his significant contributions to Tamil cinema music. He has also won 6 Mirchi Music Awards, 5 Vijay Awards, 4 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, 3 International Tamil Film Awards and Big FM Awards. Since 2001, he has won 6 Filmfare Awards South and has received 20 Filmfare Awards South nominations. He 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. He composes soundtracks predominantly for Tamil films, while also having composed for a few films in Telugu and two films in Hindi. Harris Jayaraj (born 8 January 1975) is an Indian composer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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