A.R. Rahman: Indian musician, record producer, singer
Birth Name: A.S. Dileep Kumar
Nickname: John Williams of the Indian Film Industry, The Mozart of Madras, Isai Puyal
Date of Birth: 6 January 1966
Birth Place: Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India
Father: R. K. Sekhar Mudhaliar
Nephew: G. V. Prakash Kumar (Composer - Tamil film industry)
A.R. Rahman is the top most music director in Indian film industry. With his music style, he revolutionized Indian film music. A. R. Rahman's birth name was A.S. Dileep Kumar, which he changed to Allah Rakha Rahman when he accepted Islam due to some incidence in his life.
A.R. Rahman was born on 6th January, 1966, in Madras in a musically rich family. His father R. K. Sekhar Mudhaliar was a composer, arranger and conductor for Malayalam films. Rahman started playing piano at the age of four. Rahman lost his father at very young age of nine and his family caught into the financial problems. They used to rent out the musical equipments to solve their financial problems. Also his sister gets suffered from an unexplainable illness, from which she gets recovered when a Sufi saint visited their house. The incidence led his family to convert into Islam and that changed A.S. Dileep Kumar's name to Allah Rakha Rahman (A.R. Rahman).
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