US-based world cinema portal "Taste of Cinema" placed Ilaiyaraaja at the 9th position in its list of 25 greatest film composers in the history of cinema and he is the only Indian composer in that list. In a poll conducted by CNN-IBN celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema in 2013, Ilaiyaraaja was voted as the all-time greatest film-music director of India. with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Ilaiyaraaja is known to have written the entire symphony in less than a month.He is also a gold medalist in classical guitar from Trinity College of Music, London, Distance Learning Channel. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan Award in 2010 and Padma Vibhushan Award in 2018. Sithara, Anveshana, Maharshi, Chettukinda Pleader, Ladies Tailor to an extent he has given music to almost all of Vamshis films which were super hits.
Reputed to be the world's most prolific composer,he has composed over 7000 songs, provided film scores for more than 1000 movies and performed in more than 20,000 concerts. Ilayaraja gave many memorable hits in Telugu and had a special affiliation with director Vamsi. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Indian music composers, he is credited with introducing western musical sensibilities in the Tamil and Telugu film musical mainstream. IIlaiyaraaja (born 2 June 1943) is an Indian film composer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, orchestrator, conductor-arranger and lyricist who works in the Indian film industry, predominantly in Tamil and Telugu.
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