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작곡가 · 현대
A. R. 라만
b. 1967
주요 업적 분야
아직 성격 매칭에 포함되지 않았습니다 — 기록된 근거가 성격 모델 전체를 다루기에는 충분하지 않습니다. 이 페이지의 다른 모든 내용은 자유롭게 확인하실 수 있습니다.
핵심 특성
주요 업적
라만은 1992년 마니 라트남 감독의 타밀 영화 「로자」의 음악으로 영화음악가로 데뷔해 국가영화상 음악감독상을 받았다. 후쿠오카상 소개문은 이 사운드트랙이 훗날 타임지의 역대 영화 사운드트랙 10선에 꼽혔다고 전한다.
그는 영화 「슬럼독 밀리어네어」(2008)의 음악을 맡아 2009년 아카데미 작곡상과 주제가상을 받았고, BAFTA, 골든글로브, 그래미상 2개도 수상했다.
라만은 마니 라트남을 비롯한 여러 인도 감독의 영화 50편 이상에서 음악감독을 맡았고, 앤드루 로이드 웨버와 뮤지컬 「봄베이 드림스」를 작업했으며, 2008년 첸나이에 KM 음악원을 설립했다.
삶의 장면들
다른 곡에 맞춰 이미 촬영된 「슬럼독 밀리어네어」의 '자이 호' 장면을 위해 라만은 영상에 맞는 새 곡을 썼고, 대니 보일이 현악을 더 요청하자 같은 날 편곡해 들려준 것으로 전해진다.
라만 본인의 이 설명은 감독의 의견에 맞춰 빠르게 작업을 조정하는 협업자의 모습과 부합한다. 협업 성향
2010년 영연방경기대회 주제곡이 널리 비판받자, 2022년 회고 기사에 따르면 그는 대회 며칠 전에 곡을 다시 편곡했다.
이 일화는 비판을 받은 곡을 다시 손보는 작곡가의 면모와 부합하지만, 이런 작업에 대한 평가는 엇갈렸다. 적응력
전환점
마니 라트남이 그의 스튜디오를 찾은 뒤 몇 달 동안 연락이 없다가 「티루다 티루다」에 이어 「로자」를 맡기면서, 「로자」는 전국적 현상이 되었고 그의 영화 데뷔작이 되었다.
이 흐름은 스스로 갖춘 스튜디오와 작업물이 영화음악 경력의 기회를 만든 광고 음악가의 모습과 부합한다. 선제적 행동력
비슷한 인물
전체적인 프로필이 이 사람과 닮은 사람들이에요.
출처
- A. R. Rahman (Q108560) -- verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-10-23): English label 'A. R. Rahman', description 'Indian composer and musician', Korean label 'A. R. 라만', citizenship India, no date of death; date of birth is recorded twice (6 January 1966 and 6 January 1967). Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- Fukuoka Prize 2016 Grand Prize laureate profile, 'A. R. Rahman' (fukuoka-prize.org, PDF of the laureate page), read in full: composer, songwriter and singer, born 6 January 1967 in Chennai; played keyboard with various orchestras and composers 1987-92; more than 300 advertising and television jingles; the 1992 score for Mani Ratnam's Roja (National Film Award and Tamil Nadu State Film Award for music direction), music director for over 50 films by directors including Mani Ratnam, Shaad Ali, Ashutosh Gowariker and S. Shankar; Bombay Dreams for Andrew Lloyd Webber; Time rating the Roja soundtrack among its all-time top-10 movie soundtracks and the Guardian listing the Bombay soundtrack in its 1000 albums to hear before you die; founder of KM Music label, the KM Music Conservatory and the A. R. Rahman Foundation; two 2009 Academy Awards, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and two Grammys for Slumdog Millionaire; Padma Shri 2000 and Padma Bhushan 2010; the SuperHeavy band project. CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE (with the Berklee page). Prize-body profile, admiring; the 2016 award is a recognition document, not an assessment.
- Berklee College of Music, 'A. R. Rahman awarded honorary doctorate' (college.berklee.edu, October 2014), read in full: honorary doctor of music presented 25 October 2014 for professional achievement and contributions to contemporary music; describes him as performer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who began with advertising jingles and drew wide attention with the 1992 Roja score; lists Bombay, Dil Se, Lagaan, Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours and collaborations with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Black Eyed Peas; credits him with founding the KM Music Conservatory in Chennai; praise from Alan Silvestri and Hans Zimmer on his influence. CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE (with the Fukuoka Prize page). Institutional honour page, admiring; its remarks on family background, philanthropy and performances for officials were not used.
- Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, 'Honorary President A.R. Rahman' (trinitylaban.ac.uk), read in full: describes him as composer, multi-instrumentalist, educator and producer; works named include Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, a 2012 London Olympics song, Bombay Dreams and a stage version of The Lord of the Rings; the KM Music Conservatory, established in 2008 in Chennai and offering education in all aspects of music and music technology; the Sunshine Orchestra (2008) giving free musical training to disadvantaged children; Honorary Fellowship of Trinity College London (2009); a 2024 partnership agreement between Trinity Laban and the conservatory after years of exchange. Institutional page, admiring; its UN-ambassador, charity-fundraising and family passages were not used.
- The News Minute, 'AR Rahman may have been jamming in US night clubs had Mani Ratnam not discovered him' (4 April 2017; excerpt from Kamini Mathai's book 'A. R. Rahman: The Musical Storm'), read in full: the early-1990s sequence in which Mani Ratnam's cousin and her husband, who knew Rahman's jingle work, pitched him to the director; Ratnam visited the young composer's studio and then said nothing for months before offering Thiruda Thiruda and then Roja; another director signed him with an advance; Roja became a national phenomenon and won him the National Award, while Thiruda Thiruda was a box-office failure though its score is still rated among his best; he has kept scoring one director's commercially unsuccessful films, at times unpaid. Biographer's excerpt carried by a news site: outside voices, but a single narrative; the passages about his family circumstances and study plans were not used.
- David Benjamin, 'A.R. Rahman Talks Slumdog Millionaire Music', The Playlist, 14 November 2008 (summarising Rahman's New York magazine interview), read in full: Danny Boyle approached Rahman, who was committed to other Indian film work and had to leave another project; Boyle wanted a driving, pulse-heavy, unsentimental score (Rahman quotes his 'no cello' instruction); the score pairs modern Indian sound with 1980s Hindi film soundtrack styles; about two months of planning and about two weeks of completion, compared with around six months for his usual Indian musicals; the track O... Saya made with M.I.A. by exchanging files by email, she recording vocals in England and he finishing the rest in India. Contemporaneous trade-blog summary of a self-interview: the process details are Rahman's own account (self), so used only with corroboration.
- Areeba Hashmi, 'AR Rahman secretly made Slumdog Millionaire's Oscar score in 3 weeks', Gulf News, 10 September 2026 (reporting Rahman's YouTube interview with Hasan Minhaj), read in full: Boyle approached him, his agent warned that Boyle might discard a score; he left a prior commitment and kept the project quiet; about three weeks for the score, composed in New York, Mumbai and Chennai and mixed in London; Boyle visited each evening to hear new material and give notes; the Jai Ho dance sequence had been filmed to another song, so he wrote an original track to fit the footage, and Boyle asked for more strings, which Rahman arranged and played back the same day. Retelling of a self-interview (self); the timeline (three weeks) differs from the two-month-plus-two-weeks account of 2008, which is noted rather than reconciled. Not used alone for any row.
- Arkadev Ghoshal, 'From Isai Puyal to Oscar-winner and beyond: 30 years of AR Rahman', The South First, 15 August 2022, read in full: career chronology (Roja 1992, Rangeela 1995 and the Hindi breakthrough, the Mani Ratnam films, Lagaan shortlisted for the Oscars, Bombay Dreams with Andrew Lloyd Webber in London and on Broadway, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the Slumdog Millionaire wins); remarks by collaborators quoted or cited (Asha Bhosle on recording for him with only a flute track, Ram Gopal Varma initially hearing a Carnatic concert in a requested song that later grew on him, Shekhar Kapur's 'slow poison' description of his music, Gulzar, Karan Thapar on his brief interview answers); a song delivered to Varma on cassette within a few days; and a critical section: the 2010 Commonwealth Games theme widely panned as below his usual standard (rearranged days before the event) and its fee criticised, a lukewarm reception for a 2019 Avengers: Endgame song, and a collaboration judged forgettable. Independent journalist's retrospective with collaborator voices and a critical counter-voice. Its passages on religion and his father were not used.
- Wikimedia Commons file page 'A.R. Rahman at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.jpg' (with the Commons API record) -- checked for the portrait: own work of photographer Desmond Herzfelder, taken 6 September 2025 at the Toronto International Film Festival under the WikiPortraits campaign, licence CC BY 4.0. Rights-basis page; no person-specific claim rests on it.





