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This page provides the list of songs sung by Ilaiyaraaja. He has sung over 380 songs of his own tunes as well as done playback singing for other music directors. [1]
Ilaiyaraaja was born as Gnanathesigan in a Dalit family in Pannaipuram in present-day Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India, on 3 June 1943. [13] [14] At the time of joining school, his father, Daniel Ramasamy [15] changed his name from Gnanathesigan Daniel to "Rajaiya", and the people in his village called him "Raasayya". [16]
Third album on Ramana Maharishi, with 10 songs, with 6 songs written by Vaali (poet) and 4 songs written by Ilaiyaraaja, and composed by the veteran composer M.S. Viswanathan. 2008 Manikantan Geet Mala: Devotional album on Swami Ayyappa, in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam 2009 Annamalai Ramanaandi: Devotional album on Ramana Maharishi.
Sindhu Bhairavi is the soundtrack to the 1985 Tamil-language musical drama film of the same name directed by K. Balachander.The film featured nine songs composed by Ilaiyaraaja with lyrics written by Vairamuthu. [1]
Thalapathi is the soundtrack album composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics written by Vaali, for 1991 Indian Tamil-language film of the same name which was written and directed by Mani Ratnam, and produced by G. Venkateswaran. The film stars Rajinikanth and Mammootty with Arvind Swamy in his feature-film debut. [1]
Annakili is the debut soundtrack album composed by Ilaiyaraaja to the 1976 film of the same name. [1] The film is directed by Devaraj–Mohan and written by Panchu Arunachalam from a story by R. Selvaraj, and stars Sivakumar and Sujatha with S. V. Subbaiah, Srikanth, Thengai Srinivasan and Fatafat Jayalaxmi in supporting roles.
The album features eight tracks, with lyrics penned by Na. Muthukumar. The album was one of the most anticipated musicals of 2012 in Tamil cinema. [1] The production house sold the musical rights at an altitudinous price of ₹ 20 million (US$230,000), setting a record price for audio rights acquirement which were sold to Sony Music India.
In May 2015, the FM radio station Radio City commemorated Ilaiyaraaja's 72nd birthday by broadcasting the composer's songs in a special show titled Raja Rajathan for 91 days. "Enna Satham" was one of the most-requested songs on the show. [18] Nandini Ramnath, writing for Scroll.in, described it as a "love song, lullaby and dirge rolled into one ...