Star Portrait-Manisharma

Yanamanra Manisharma is the popular music director. He was born to Yanamanra Venkata Subramanya Sharma on 11th July 1964 at Machalipatnam, Krishna Dist, Andhra Pradesh. He is married to Sree Vani and his children are Swara Sagar Mahati.His native place is  Podagatlapalli near Ravulapalem in East Godavari District .

His father was a renowned violinist and he spent most of is early days in Chennai. Mani Sharma entered film industry and worked under music director Sri Satyam. Manisharma toured along with SP.Balasubramaniam as a keyboard player and even used to work with Murali Krish and Chakri Policherla under the composition of Maestro Ilaiyaraaja in Chennai.

He worked as keyboard player for Raj-Koti,Keeravani before he composed background scores to Ram Gopal Varma and others.  Then he continued to compose background music for other films like Raathri (Raat), Preminchukundam Raa etc. His first film as a full-time music composer was Super Hereos which was produced by Suresh Productions. Later he got break in Megastar Chiranjeevi's film Bavagaru Bagunnara.

He composed music for all time biggest hits Bavagaru Bagunnara?, Choodalani Vundi, Iddaru Mitrulu, Jai Chiranjeeva, Stalin, Anji, Indra, Tagore, Annayya, Kushi, Theenmaar, Samarasimha Reddy, Narasimha Naidu, Aadi, Lakshmi Narasimha & Pokiri. His recent hit films are Pokiri (Telugu and Tamil), Chirutha (Telugu), Billa (Telugu), Athadu (Telugu), Athidhi, Yuvatha, kantri, Rachcha (Telugu) and many more. One of his achievements is after 'Bavagaru Bagunnara' Chiranjeevi took him as a music composer for a huge
majority of his films till Stalin (1998–2006). One of his greatest compositions was Cheliya Cheliya from Kushi.

He is also the keyboard player in the China Olympics Official Musical Troupe in Gymnastics Competition.

Star Portrait-Harris Jeyaraj

Harris Jayaraj was born and 8th January, 1975 at Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has written scores and soundtracks for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.

Education

He studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School,KK.Nagar, Chennai.

Parents and Early career

His father, S. M. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and an assistant to Malayalam music director Shyam and later became a noted musician and film composer. At age six, Harris began his formal training in carnatic music.His father wanted him to become a guitarist and made him learn classical guitar.[Harris scored the highest mark in Asia on his 4th grade exam of Trinity College of Music, London.

Personal

Harris is married to Joyce (alias Suma), the couple have a son named Samuel Nicholas and a daughter named Karen Nikita. Harris prefers to work in his Trinity Studios which he has established in his own residence.

Early Forays

He started his music career as a guitarist in 1987 at age twelve. After befitting as a guitar player, he started playing keyboard and developed interest over synthesizers. 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 and Malayalam, working in more than 600 projects till the year 2000.He worked under noted composers including Raj-Koti, A. R. Rahman, Mani Sharma, Karthik Raja, Vidyasagar.While working as an additional programmer under Rahman, he composed music for various television commercials including a Coca-Cola commercial featuring actor Vijay.

Film Debut

He made his debut with Minnale directed by Gautam Menon. The tracks became a hit and he got Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil . In the process he broke 9yrs continuos record of AR.Rahman.

He then worked in Lesa Lesa directed by Priyadarshan.[14] The title track of Lesa Lesa was the first song in India to be released as a single prior to a film soundtrack album release (The first ever single to be released prior to an album was Anaida's "hotline").

Tollywood Debut

Harris made his debut in Tollywood with Vasu. He received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil, Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director and ITFA Best Music Director Award for Kaakha Kaakha, starring Suriya and Jyothik.

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Live Concerts

In 2011, Harris announced his first musical world tour titled "Harris On The Edge".The tour features live performance of Harris all over the world accompanied by a troupe of Tamil playback singers, including Karthik, Haricharan, Chinmayi, Tippu, Harini, Naresh Iyer, Harish Raghavendra, Krish, Aalap Raju, KK, Benny Dayal, Andrea, Suvi Suresh, Sunitha Sarathy, Srilekha Parthasarathy and Shweta Menon and international musicians and dancers.The event will be coordinated by Techfront and is to be directed by A. L. Vijay.


Awards



Filmfare Awards South

    2001: Won – Best Music Director – Minnale
    2003: Won – Best Music Director - Kaakha Kaakha
    2005: Won – Best Music Director - Anniyan
    2008: Won – Best Music Director - Vaaranam Aayiram
    2009: Won – Best Music Director - Ayan


International Tamil Film Awards

    2003 – Best Music Director – Kaakha Kaakha
    2008 – Best Music Director – Vaaranam Aayiram

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

    2003 – Best Music Director – Kaakha Kaakha
    2005 – Best Music Director – Anniyan & Ghajini

Vijay Awards

    2008: Won - Best Music Director - "Vaaranam Aayiram"
    2008: Won - Favorite Song of the Year - "Ava Enna" from "Vaaranam Aayiram"
    2009: Won - Best Music Director - "Aadhavan"
    2011: Won - Favorite Song of the Year - "Enamo Aedho" from "Ko"

Vijay Music Awards

    2011: Won - Best Music Director - "Engeyum Kaadhal"
    2011: Won - Popular Song of the Year - "Enamo Aedho" from "Ko"
    2011: Won - Best Western Song - "Nangaai" from "Engeyum Kaadhal"

Star Portrait-Chakri

Chakradhar Gilla was born on 15th at Mahabubabad, Warangal, A. P. He is  popular as Chakri and is a music composer and singer. He has a brother  and three sisters. He did his engineering at Manipal Institute of  Technology.

Personal Life

Chakri is married to Sravani from Khammam.

Music career

He composed music for around 85 films. He started his career as music director with the Movie Bachi directed by Puri Jagannadh. As a composer he introduced many new talents (Singers and Lyricist). He won best singer award for movie Sathyam in tollywood filmfare awards and Nandi award for movie Simha.He is generally considered to have hits in the month of January, which is considered to be Sankranthi (a Telugu festival) season in Andhra Pradesh. This is due to hits such as Devadasu (2006), Desamuduru (2007), Krishna (2008) and Maska (2009) in straight years during Sankranthi.

Social activities

Chakri is associated with Kokila Event Management Company to promote social awareness causes.

Star Portrait-Keeravani

Keeravani is the most popular music director in Telugu. Hw eas born in Kovvur, Andhrapradesh on 4th July, 1961, He has brothers K.Vijayendra Prasad and Kalyani Malik and Uncle Rajamouli. All of them are extremely successful as screen writer, director, music director.

He is also popular as Maragatha Mani (Tamil Cinema) and M. M. Kreem (Bollywood),He is also a playback singer and works in  Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi cinema. [1] In 1997, he has garnered the National Film Award for Best Music Direction. He has won eight Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards, four Filmfare Awards South and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award.

Film Career

Keeravani made his debut in films as an  Assistant music director with the noted composer Chakravarthy in the year 1987. He assisted in some movies like Collectorgari Abbayi and Bharathamlo Arjunudu in the later 80's. For one year he did apprentice under veteran lyricist Veturi.

Keeravani became music director in the year 1990 with Kalki. The film never got released and in 1990 he worked for Manasu Mamata in Mouli's direction but got the big break in  1991 in the form of Ram Gopal Varma's Kshana Kshanam .

His most popular films include Annamayya,Magadheera,Rajanna, Eega,Shirdi Sai. He has composed music for Hindi films such as Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996), Sur: The Melody of Life, Zakhm, Saaya, Jism, Criminal, Rog and Paheli. In Malayalam, he has scored for films like Neelagiri (1991), Soorya Manasam (1992), and Devaraagam (1996). He has composed for over 200 films in various Indian languages.

Star Portrait-SS.Thaman

SS.Thaman is born on 16 Nov 1985 in a brahmin family, Andhra Pradesh. His full name is Ghantasala Sai Srinivas Thaman Siva Kumar, He made his debut as actor in Shankar's Boys but then became the most popular music director. Ghantalasa Balaramayya,erstwhile director and producer, known for producing the Telugu film Seetarama Jananam, the debut film of Akkineni Nageswara Rao, is his grand father.

Family

He hails from the family of musicians.  His father Ghantasala Siva Kumar was a Drummer, who worked for seven hundred films, under composer, K. Chakravarthy, his mother Ghantasala Savitri is a playback singer, his aunt is singer P. Vasantha.

Personal

He is married to playback singer Sai Vardhini. Thaman owns a band named Thakkali. At the age of nine, He joined Ilaiyaraaja's brother, G. Anand as a rhythm pads player, and discontinued studies when he lost his father at the age of 13. He was compelled to make his hobby into a profession to meet the crisis in his family.[He then joined Raj-Koti team, and worked for three years on sixty films and then joined M. M. Keeravani and worked with him for three years completing thirty films. He has also gained experience from composers like Vandemataram Srinivas, Chakri, R. P. Patnaik and Devi Sri Prasad.

Under Manisharma he worked for more than 6 yrs and 80 films. Before turning music director he had stint of 14 yrs under various directors as rhythm, key board programmer.

Film Career

He made his debut in telugu in 2009 with Bheebhatsam and later scored for many films. Important among them are Kick,Brindavanam,Mirapakaya,Kanchana, Kandireega,Dookudu,Business Man,Nayak, Bodyguard,Love Failure, Baadshah,Greeku Veerudu.

Awards

Best Music Director-Film Fare Award,SIIMA, TSR TV9 2011-2012-Dookudu

   The Hyderabad Times Film Awards 2011 - Best Music Director for Dookudu.

   MAA Music Awards 2011 - Best Music Director for Dookudu.

Hobbies

Cricket

Twitter Account

@musicthaman

Star Portrait-Devi Sri Prasad

Devi Sri Prasad who is well known as DSP is one of the famous Music Director, Composer and Play singer in Tollywood, Kollywood and Bollywood film industry. He was born on 2nd August 1979 in Vedurupaka in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh and later on moved to Chennai, Tamil Nadu. His father Satyanand was a school master and his mother Siromani is a home maker. He has only one brother Sagar who is also a Play Back Singer and Anchor too. He completed his entire schooling at Sir M. Venkata Subba Rao Boys High School, Chennai and completed his graduation in Chennai only. He won several prizes in the culturals organised at inter-school level for both dance and singing competitions. He has directed music for several South Indian films and many of them are box office hits. Devi’s soundtracks are dubbed in several languages also. He is a big fan of Ilayaraja and A. R. Rahman.

Industry Journey.

Devi’s debut music album was “Dance Party” along with S. P. B. Charan and a few more debutants at the time, was the kick start of his music career. He started his music direction in the year 1999 through the Telugu film “Devi” which was musically hit. He is making his debut in Malayalam cinema with the forthcoming film Kandahar, which stars Mohanlal, Amitabh Bachchan and Surya Sivakumar in lead roles.

As a Lyric Writer.

He wrote lyrics for the many Telugu songs, ‘Vecha Vechaga’ song from “Vamsi”, ‘Premante Yemitante’ song from “Anandam”, ‘Chaila Chaila’ song from “Shankar Dada MBBS” and ‘Udayainche Suryadinadigaa’ and ‘Akaasam...’ songs from “Kalusukovalani”. ‘Chandamama Okati’ song from “Oka Oorilo”, ‘Thellarindoi..’ and ‘Chaila chaila..’ songs from “Shankardada MBBS”, ‘Good morning Hyderabad’ song from “Shankardada Zindabad”, ‘Pilla...’ song from “Gabbar Singh” , and ‘O Madhu’ song from “Julai”

As a Play Back Singer.

Some of the Songs he performed as a playback singer are Vecha Vechaga, Chitiksethe Alalaina, Jagada Jagada, Mudula Chiluka, Maakakrledu, Hot Summer, Lakapidathala, Tha Thai Tha Thai, Pantham Pantham, Andee Andaka, Hylessa, Just Love Me Baby, etc.

As a Composer.

Some films that he composed soundtracks include Yamudu, Manmadha Baanam, Mr. Perfect, 100% Love, Adurs, Arya 2, King, Current, Ready, Jalsa, Tulasi, Bommarillu, Rakhi, Pournai, Aaru, Andarivaadu, Namo Venkatesa, Rakhwala Pyar Ka ,Sye Aata, Yamudu, Singam, Manmadha Baanam, Dhada, Simhaputrudu, Oosaravelli, Gabbar Singh, Julayi ,Damarukam, Sarocharu , Bad Boy, Alex Pandian, Mirchi,  Iddarammayilatho, etc. He composed song for the Telugu Cinema Vajrotsavam.

Awards

He received Film fare Best Telugu Music Director Award three times for the films “Varsham”, “Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana” and “Bommarillu”. He got Santosham Best Music Director Award three times for the films, “Varsham”, “Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana “ and “Jalsa”. He received Isai Aruvi Tamil Music Awards, Best Music Director and CineMAA Award for Best Music Director for the film “Arya 2”. He received MAA Music Awards Most Popular Music Director for the film “Gabbar Singh” . IIFA Award for Best Music Director for the tamil film “Venghai” and TSR TV9 Award for Best Music Director for Telugu film “Damarukam”