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Allah Rakha Rahman (Tamil: born vi January 1966 as A. S. Dileep Kumar) is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist. Described as the planet's most distinguished and prolific film composer by Time, his works are notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and ancient orchestral arrangements. He has won two Academy Awards, 2 Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards, 13 Filmfare Awards South in addition to numerous alternative awards and nominations. His intensive body of labor for film and therefore the stage earned him the nickname “the Mozart of Madras” and several Tamil commentators and fans have coined him the nickname Isai Puyal (Tamil: English: Music Storm). In 2009, Time placed Rahman in its list of World's Most Influential People. The UK based World Music magazine Songlines named him one of 'Tomorrow's World Music Icons' in August 2011. Having founded his own in-house studio referred to as Panchathan Record Inn at Chennai, arguably one in every of Asia’s most sophisticated and high-tech studios, Rahman's film scoring career began in the first 1990s with the Tamil film Roja. Operating in India's varied film industries, international cinema and theatre, Rahman has sold additional than three hundred million records worldwide of his film scores and soundtracks as of 2009 for over one hundred film scores worldwide, creating him one among the globe's all-time prime selling recording artists. In an exceedingly notable career spanning 2 decades, Rahman has garnered explicit approval for redefining contemporary Indian film music and therefore contributing to the success of many films. Rahman is currently one in every of the best paid composers of the motion image industry. He has additionally become a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising money for helpful causes and supporting charities.