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Composed the score and songs for Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman won Academy Awards for Original Score and for the song “Jai Ho.”
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3 public itemsA. R. Rahman
Composer and music producer
PHOTO: Sriram Narasimhan / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Joined Indian film music, electronic production, orchestral writing, and education into a globally heard body of work.
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Founded KM Music Conservatory.
The Chennai institution teaches Western and Indian music traditions alongside music technology.
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Made his film-scoring debut with Roja.
The score began Rahman’s long collaboration with filmmaker Mani Ratnam and introduced a new electronic and orchestral vocabulary to Indian cinema.