Vidyasagar (composer)

Vidyasagar
Background information
Birth name	Vidya Sagar
Born	(1963-03-02) 2 March 1963 (age 61) Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
Genres	Film score, dance music, classical music
Occupations	Singer Songwriter Composer Record producer Music director Arranger Conductor
Instruments	Harmonium, Santoor, Vibraphone, Keyboard, Piano, Guitar, Vocal.
Years active	1989–present

Vidyasagar (born 2 March 1963) is an Indian composer, musician and singer who works predominantly in the

he frequently work with actor vijay which all of the albums were successful and is widely regarded as one of the finest and most acclaimed composers in the history of Indian Cinema.

Life and career

Vidya Sagar was born into a Telugu speaking family of U.Ramachandar, a musician, and Suryakantham in Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh.^[3]He was settled in Chennai. He is married and has daughters and a son. One of his daughter Susarla Pallavi is an Social media influencer and his son Harsha Vardhan working as musician and programmer in Tamil Cinema Industry. He underwent carnatic vocals training first and then started taking classical guitar classes in Chennai from Master Dhanraj and then later piano.^[4]

Vidyasagar became an independent film composer with the song En Anbe in the 1989 Tamil movie Poomanam. Vidyasagar started his music career with a Tamil film, he gained recognition good in the Tamil music industry at a later stage.

in 1989.

In 1993–94, Vidya Sagar was approached by Tamil actor-director Arjun, with whom he worked for many musical films like Jai Hind, Karna and Subash. Their combination resulted in acclaimed Tamil language melodic songs like Malare and Paadu .. Paadu.

From 1996 to 2001 Vidyasagar mainly concentrated on Malayalam films.

From the year 2001, he started composing soundtracks for

was a box-office blockbuster, but the songs only became nominal hits, not bringing him the acclaim he was usually used to in Tamil and Malayalam films.

During this period, Vidya Sagar became the first South Indian Composer to have composed for an English language feature, Beyond The Soul, an Indo American film directed by Rajiv Anchal.

Between 2003 and 2005, he composed songs for several notable films like

K. Vishwanath. The music in the film was predominantly Carnatic.^[6] The same year, he composed music for the film Chandramukhi

.

In 2007, Vidyasagar was signed by

Vijay's Kuruvi and the Priyadarshan directed Mere Baap Pehle Aap

in Hindi.

After his brief dull phase in

Vijay's Kaavalan

.

In 2012, Vidyasagar had three releases in Malayalam with Diamond Necklace, Thappana and Ordinary.

In 2013,

Oru Indian Pranayakatha. Sathyan Anthikad continued his collaboration with Vidya Sagar for his next 2 films, Ennum Eppozhum (released in 2015) and Jomonte Suvisheshangal^[7]

(released in 2017).

Discography

Main article: Vidyasagar discography

Awards

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Vidyasagar

See also

• List of films directed by Lal Jose featuring Vidyasagar
• Varsha Vallaki Studios

References

1. ^ "Events – Vidyasagar: Music Matters". IndiaGlitz.com. 25 June 2010. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
2. ^ "Vidya Sagar felicitated". The Hindu. 15 February 2006.
3. ^ "Vidyasagar: Movies, Photos, Videos, News, Biography & Birthday | eTimes". The Times of India. Times of India.
4. ^ ^{a b} "An informal chat with Vidyasagar". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 5 April 2005. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
5. ^ ^{a b} "Welcome to Sify.com". sify.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015.
6. ^ Chandramukhi Review. Vidaysagar on Chandramukhi
7. ISSN 0971-751X
   . Retrieved 16 September 2019.

External links

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