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Early life

A. M. Rajah was born on 1 July 1929 in Ramachandrapuram, Chittoor District in present day Andhra Pradesh to Manmadharaju and Lakshmamma. His father died when he was three years old and then the family moved to Madras (Chennai). His tertiary education was at Pachaiyappa's College from where he graduated with a B.A. Degree. By this time, Rajah was an accomplished piano player and had won several prizes in singing competitions. He was well versed with Carnatic Music and Western music. He was also highly influenced by the Hindi and Gazal music and was the only answer from the South to North Indian singers like Talat Mehmood,Mukesh,Rafi and Hemanta Kumar.

Musical career

During his University days, Rajah wrote, composed and sang two songs in his mother tongue, Telugu , with the instrumental support of the music director K. V. Mahadevan for HMV which were broadcast by All India Radio. Gemini Studios boss S. S. Vasan listened to these songs and, impressed, booked him for his next film, Samsaram (1951) with the approval of his music director, Emani Sankara Sastry, and also his good friend Kalki Krishnamurthy. By this time Rajah was also already recording songs for the films Rajambal and Kumari with music composers M. S. Gnanamani and K. V. Mahadevan respectively. Rajah, with instant popularity after the Samsaram songs came on the air, went on to sing in various languages, including Hindi and was the uncrowned prince of the South in the early and mid 50's.[citation needed] He was booked early in his cinema life as one of the music composers (others being T. A. Kalyanam and M. S. Gnanamani) for F. Nagoor's Genova (1952), an M.G.R starrer, but he passed on this opportunity to M. S. Viswanathan (his first film), who was looking for films. Rajah however sang all the songs in this film including M. S. Viswanathan's composition Naame Jeeva Sugam with P. Leela.

His first Telugu film was Adarsham (1952). He also acted and sang in the Telugu film Pakkinti Ammayi (1953) directed by Chittajalu Pullayya.[1]. He also appeared in Devadas in a small role. His first song in Malayalam was for film Lokaneethi (1952), music director being the composer V. Dakshinamoorthy.He sang for almost all the South Indian film music composers of the 50's.A.M.Rajah was the first male playback singer from the South to have recorded songs for a Hindi film (Bahut Din Huye in 1952) whereas M.S.Subbulakshmi was the first South Indian singer (cum actress) to record songs for a Hindi film (Meera in 1947).[citation needed].

Many of his solo songs and duets with all the leading female playback singers of that era were big hits. In playback, what Mukesh was for Raj Kapoor, Rajah was for Gemini Ganesan. Rajah also sang many songs for Sivaji Ganesan and lent his voice to MGR too. Similarly, he sang for N.T.Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao in several Telugu films and for Sathyan and Prem Nazir in many Malayalm films.

A. M. Rajah's exit from the film world remained always a controversial one.[citation needed] Rajah fell out with number of music composers and developed a reputation for being difficult to work with. His ways were rather direct and he had his own strong opinions about how songs must be composed and sung. His original promoter, K. V. Mahadevan, was the first to openly drop him completely after recording the song "Kayile Inippathenna, Kaniyanal Kasappathenna" that sparked off an heated argument at the sets of Manamulla Maru Tharam. It was also known in the cinema circles that M. S. Viswanathan resisted using Rajah in his films.By this time,he suffered the same fate in the Telugu film world, too.However, he continued to sing for Malayala films little longer.

A.M.Rajah's debut as music composer was for the Telugu film Shobha(1958) starring N.T.Rama Rao and Anjali Devi and directed by Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao.It was Sridhar who gave Rajah the second break to be a music director, fulfilling his promise that the day he directed his first film, Rajah would be its music director. The Film was Kalyana Parisu (1959) with Gemini Ganesan and B.Saroja Devi in the lead. . Rajah received the Madras Film Fans Association award of Best Music Director in 1959 for this film.In the same year he composed music for Anbukkor Anni directed by T.R.Raghunath.Sridhar and Rajah thereafter combined for films Vidivelli produced by Sivaji Ganesan and Then Nilavu produced by Sridhar under his own banner Chitrallaya.They fell out after the film was completed and Rajah refused to do the background music, but eventually did under pressure from mutual friends.Sridhar, however, went back to Rajah for Nenjil Or Alayam(1962), but Rajah refused.He then composed music for Adiperukku (1962)directed by K.Shankar.

Rajah still remained a big name because of the popularity of his songs and continued his music by regularly having stage shows in India as well as overseas whilst carrying on his tourist car business. He made a comeback in the 70's through composers V.Kumar and Sankar Ganesh, and the songs were amongst the hits of the respective years. A. M. Rajah also composed music for couple of Tamil films (Veetu Mapillai in 1973, Enakkoru Magan Pirappan in 1975) and a Malayala film (Amma Enna Sthree in 1970) during this period. Composer Sathyam brought him back to sing a duet with P. Susheela for the Telugu film Puttinellu Mettinellu (1973), which was also a hit.

Personal life

He married G. Krishnaveni (popularly known as Jikki), who reigned together with P. Leela as the top two female playback singers in the South during the early fifties. It is said that he met her on the sets of Samsaram and Kumari (1951) and proposed to her on the sets of Maheswari (1954) after they sang the duet Azhagu Nilavin Bavaniyile. They had four daughters and two sons. He had traveled extensively abroad. A. M. Rajah died on April 7, 1989 at the age of almost 60 in an unfortunate train accident when he tripped and fell into the tracks while boarding a moving train.

SL/NO	SONGS	MOVIE	DOWNLOAD
01	Paatu paadavaa	Thein nilavu	DOWNLOAD
02	Unnai kandu naan-	Kalyana	DOWNLOAD
03	Ullathilay-	Vijayapuri veeran	DOWNLOAD
04	Thulliyae odumae-	Vanjam	DOWNLOAD
05	Minnal pol aagum-	Avan	DOWNLOAD
06	Minor liff pomba-	Illaramae nallaram	DOWNLOAD
07	Pazhga theriya-	Missiamma	DOWNLOAD
08	Mudiyum endral-	Missiamma	DOWNLOAD
09	Enullam than-	Veetukku vandha varalaxmi	DOWNLOAD
10	Pothum undan-	Kadan vaangi kalynam	DOWNLOAD
11	Veenil yeno vethanai-	Balae raman	DOWNLOAD
12	Pattathaarigal-	Pakaa thirudan	DOWNLOAD
13	Seitha paavathinilae-	Genova	DOWNLOAD
14	Sirpi sethukaatha-	Ethirpaarathathu	DOWNLOAD
15	Yogamadhae-	Vippira vippra narayanan	DOWNLOAD
16	Manilathil vithiyai-	Samsaram	DOWNLOAD
17	Theriyuma-	Paasama nesama	DOWNLOAD
18	Kalaiyae un vizhi-	Guna sundari	DOWNLOAD
19	Enakku onnum puriyavillai-	Anbu	DOWNLOAD
20	Arugil vanthaal-	Kalathoor kannamma	DOWNLOAD
21	Vazhkai enbathu-	Kathavai thattiya moginipei	DOWNLOAD
22	Thanimayiley-	Adiperukku	DOWNLOAD
23	Kalaiyae yen-	Meenda sorgam	DOWNLOAD
24	Ayyamudalai vaanga-	Anbu	DOWNLOAD