Allah Rakha Rahman (born 6 January 1966 as A. S.
Dileep Kumar) is an Indian film
composer, record producer,
musician and singer. His film
scoring career began in the
early 1990s. He has won
thirteen Filmfare Awards, four
National Film Awards, a BAFTA
Award, a
Golden Globe, two Grammy
Awards, and two Academy
Awards.[1][2]
Working in India's various film
industries, international cinema
and theatre, by 2004, Rahman,
in a career spanning over a
decade, had sold more than 150
million records of his film
scores and
soundtracks worldwide,[3][4]
and sold over 200 million
cassettes, [5] making him one
of the world's all-time top
selling recording artists.
Time magazine has referred to
him as the "Mozart of Madras"
and several Tamil
commentators have coined him
the nickname Isai Puyal (Tamil:
இசைப் புயல் ;
English: Music Storm).[6] In
2009, the magazine placed
Rahman in the Time 100 list of
'World's Most Influential
People'. [7]