Musically Yours

My Retrospective on Harris Jayaraj Once upon a time,  there lived a musical ghost. He was known for bringing in melodies that left us in awe of his music style but is now struggling to stay relevant in today's times. That guy's name is Harris Jayaraj. Harris started out as an assistant musician for many films until 2001 where his talent had signed. He signed up with a young debutant named Gautham Vasudev Menon for a musical romance named Minnale. The songs that he produced turned out to be a hit and brought him close to the masses. Since then Harris never looked back. He composed for many films from 2000s- 2010s thus being dubbed the Harris Era. Harris Jayaraj entered at that time when Ilayaraja's career had witnessed a slowdown and A.R Rahman was going all out in other industries. Yuvan Shankar Raja had also branched out and made himself the man to go for Remixes. Harris had composed songs and bgms that stayed with us when it came to melodies. His discographies spoke volum...

Daddy Yankee - The Big Boss of Reggaetón Feb 17th 1977, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Just when Latin America was just on the rise as a political power, A young boy was born. His name was Ramon Luis Ayala Rodriguez. He had been an athletic person during his childhood and had been dreaming to be a professional baseball player. His dreams unfortunately had to bite the dust after he was shot by a stray round of  AK47s. He spent a year and a half recovering from the wound. Just then suddenly, Another door opened in his life and that was music. Ramon took the stage name Daddy Yankee and got into the reggaetón field which was at the time coming from the underground as started by DJ Playero. He was just 18 when he got married to his high school girlfriend. He started his first ever record company called El Cartel records. One of his singles Gasolina from Barrio Fino was a massive breakthrough for both Daddy Yankee and Reggaetón. This changed him into a megastar and he also gave many hits. He als...

KJ Yesudas - The Singer with a Godly Voice Imagine that you are listening to a song sung by a person with a Godly Voice. You would start to imagine the fact that you are listening to God who is speaking to you. There is only one person who has that Godly Voice and that has to be none other than Dr. KJ Yesudas. Kattesery Joseph Yesudas was born on January 10th 1940 to a musically inclined Christian family. His father Augustin Joseph was a musician and stage artist. He started learning music from a family friend and also from Chembai a legendary singer. Yesudas started his career in 1961 with a song called jathi matham by singing 4 lines written by Narayana Guru. Since then he started singing many songs in a versatile manner. Dasettan sang in many languages and genres ranging from sentimental, devotional and romantic songs. He sang not just Christian songs but also was credited with singing hindu devotional songs and mapilla paatukal. This showed that he was a spiritual and secular singe...

KK - The Voice of Love August 23rd 1968, Delhi, A young boy was born to a Malayali Family. His name was KK alias Krishnakumar Kunnath. He was a student at Kishori Mal College which was affiliated with Delhi University. KK was a person who had an amazing voice, though he was not trained. He started his career as a singer through ad jingles. He debuted in a Music Industry via an A.R Rahman Soundtrack.  It was his debut album Pal that turned KK into a sensation. Two of its songs named Pal and Yaaron were the best tracks that were most commonly used in School Farewells. KK as a singer was well known for bringing out his versatility in his singing. Be it A Kuthu track like Appadi Podu or Annanodu Paatu, A Heartbreak song like Tadap Tadap or Awaarapan Banjaarapan, KK is a gem. He is also well known for his work with Harris Jayaraj and Yuvan Shankar Raja. KK as a person was well known to be very humble and friendly. He also was well credited for helping notice the talent of Arijit Singh w...