![]() ![]() Gemini ganesh who portrayed soft romantic characters in many movies had Raja sing for him and became Gemini’s permanent voice until G.Ramanathan made P.B.Srinivas sing for Gemini. Especially in Malayalam Raja was accepted instantly and he sang so many Malayalam songs and to an extent became the voice for Sathyan. Raja sang for all heroes starting with MGR (Genova ) and many films including the mayakkum malai pozhuthe nee po po(With jikki), kan moodum velaiyilum (with P.Suseela), Sivaji ganesan in several movies, NTR, A.Nageswara rao in many early telugu movies, Prem nazir & Sathyan in Malayalam too, ![]() He along with Jikki went to Bombay for the first time to record Tamil & Telugu versions of Aah and thus he was the first singer from south to go to Bombay to record under a hindi music director. He was the popular numero uno singer during that period. He started to sing in all languages and for all actors till late 50’s. He sang the samsaaram title track in all languages including hindi. After Samsaaram his career began sky rocketing. When it comes to happy romance or sad romance Raja had it in his voice. ![]() When the music world was dominated by heavy Carnatic based male voices here came a guy with a mild voice which delivered every emotion with ease and with perfect shruthi. Listening to the Songs he composed & sung for HMV in All India Radio Gemini Studio owner Sri S.S.Vasan was very much impressed and thus Raja sang “Samsaaram” track for the movie Samsaaram in 1951. He composed few telugu songs for HMV and thus got to know K.V.Mahadevan. Raja was trained in Carnatic and Western Classical and was also influenced in the hindi songs & ghazals during that time. Rajah hails from Chittoor District, having lost his father at his young age their family moved to the then survival land “Madras” Music by A.M.Raja, wonderful lyrics by Pattukottai kalyana sundaram & beautifully rendered by Smt P.Susheela. Yes “unnai kandu naan aada ennai kandu nee aada ullasam pongum deepavali “ from KAlyana Parisu. Now that noise of fire crackers have reduced post Deepavali, let’s remember the man behind the Deepavali song which has been aired the most number of times since it was created. ![]()
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