Anirudh Ravichander is an Indian film composer and singer. His debut song \”Why This Kolaveri Di\”, composed for the 2012 film 3, went viral across the globe and has achieved over 200 million views on YouTube. In 2016, he signed a record deal with Sony Music, which publishes his independent albums and live concerts. In 2017, he became the most Desirable Man in chennai. In 2018, he again bagged the title, becoming the first musician to achieve this title two times in a row. He is the son of actor Ravi Raghavendra and a nephew of Latha Rajinikanth.
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Anirudh Ravichander is an Indian film composer and singer. He has won two Filmfare Awards South, nine SIIMA Awards, six Edison Awards and five Vijay Awards. His debut song \”Why This Kolaveri Di\”, composed for the 2012 film 3, went viral across the globe and has achieved over 200 million views on YouTube. In 2016, he signed a record deal with Sony Music, which publishes his independent albums and live concerts. He featured with Diplo on the remix of Major Lazer’s hit single \”Cold Water\”. In 2017, he became the most Desirable Man in chennai. In 2018, he again bagged the title, becoming the first musician to achieve this title two times in a row. He is the son of actor Ravi Raghavendra and a nephew of Latha Rajinikanth. His maternal grandfather S. V. Ramanan is a multifaceted personality who has excelled in making documentaries, commercials and music. His great grandfather was director Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam, a pioneering filmmaker of the 1930s. He was part of a band in school called Zinx. At the age of 10, he started composing music and landed his first break with ‘3’ at the aged of 22. He made his debut as a music composer in his cousin Aishwarya R. Dhanush’s directorial debut 3, starring DhanUSH. While pursuing his degree at Loyola College, he had done background scores for the short films made by Aisheswaryaa and his work on short films convinced her to have him work on her first commercial venture.
He always loved music and composing music is his passion. His dream was to make music his career and become a musician. In his school days, his band was one of the winners along with 5 other bands, and he was awarded the Best Instrumentalist by his idol, A. R. Rahman. He also learnt Carnatic music, and waspart of a Carnatic fusion band. The song was built around a South Indian folk rhythm. The vocals utilize the singing style of Tamil folk culture; the song revolves around the film’s main actor being dumped by his girlfriend in a drunken state. The remaining songs were released in December 2011 and also won very positive reviews from critics. He composed the tune in about 10 minutes in a light-hearted, drunken state, with many of the lines in a state of drunken state with many lines of nonsensical lines. His song was released on 16 November 2011 and instantly became popular on social networking sites for its quirky \”Tanglish\” and foot-tapping kuthu beats. Within a few weeks, YouTube honoured the video with a \”Recently Most Popular\” Gold Medal award and \”Trending\” silver medal award for receiving a large number of hits in a short time. In 2012, he composed the song for the film 3 and it was the most searched YouTube video in India.
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