Allah Rakha Rahman was born A.S. Dileep Kumar on the 6th of january in the year 1966, in Madras, to a musically affluent family. His father K.A.Sekhar was an arranger and conductor in Malayalam movies and Devarajan. Dileep started learning the piano at the tender age of four.
At the age of 9, his father passed away following a mysterious illness with rumours abounding that he was the victim of black magic by is rivals. The pressure of supporting his family fell on Dileep. At he age of 11, he joined Ilayaraja's troupe as a keyboard player. It was his mother Kareema Begum who encouraged him to follow in his father's footsteps. But all this had an adverse affect on his education. Infrequent attendance and an unaccommodated management forced him to shift schools from the prestigious Padma Seshadri Bal Bhavan to the Madras Christian college and family he dropped out of school altogether.
He also played on the orchestra of M.S.Vishwanathan and Ramesh Naidu and accompanied Zakir Hussain and Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan on world tours. All this experience enabled him to earn a scholarship to the famed Trinity College of Music at Oxford University from where he obtained a degree in Western Classical Music. After he returned he continued to be a part of various music troupes. He was also a part of various music troupes. He was also a part of local rock bands like Roots, Magic and Nemesis Avenue where he performed with his future colleagues like Ranjit Barot and Sivamani.
Greatest achievement of A R Rahman was the Oscar award for the best Musician in 2009 for the film "Slumdog Milliners". His hit song in this movies was "Jay ho...". This film was the story of back street peoples in Dharavi, Mumbai.
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