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G. Devarajan was born on 27 September, 1927 in Paravur, Travancore present day Kollam, India, is a Paravoor Govindan Devarajan popularly known as G. Devarajan or Devarajan master. Discover G. Devarajan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation Film composer, Carnatic singer
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 27 September, 1927
Birthday 27 September
Birthplace Paravur, Travancore present day Kollam, India
Date of death 2006
Died Place Chennai, India
Nationality India

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1927

Paravoor Govindan Devarajan (1927–2006), popularly known as G. Devarajan or Devarajan master, was an Indian music composer and Carnatic singer.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Indian film music.

He scored music for more than three hundred Malayalam films, many dramas, and twenty Tamil and four Kannada movies.

His collaborations with Vayalar Ramavarma produced the golden era of Malayalam film music and many of his compositions remain ever green classics in Malayalam.

His music in the Tamil film Annai Velankanni has received many accolades.

Devarajan received Kerala Government's Best Music Director award five times, among other honours.

1946

He did his intermediate college at University College in Thiruvananthapuram from 1946 to 1948 and passed with First Class.

He additionally graduated with BA in Economics from Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvanthapuram.

Devarajan, under the name of Paravur Devarajan or Paravur G. Devaraj, started his illustrious career in music as a classical singer and performed his first classical concert at the age of 17 and started to perform more concerts on AIR Tiruchi and Trivandrum.

1947

He performed a number of classical concerts from 1947 to 1967 with multiple accompanists, his usual ones being Chalakudy Narayanaswamy and Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair.

At the end of his classical concerts, he used to set tunes to the poems of Ulloor Parameswaran Iyer, Kumaranasan, Changampuzha, G. Kumarapilla, O. N. V. Kurup, P. Bhaskaran, amongst many others.

He was soon attracted to the Communist movement and decided to dedicate his creative energy to popular music.

He joined the once-famous drama troupe of Kerala, the Kerala People's Arts Club (KPAC).

The work that brought him to the limelight was the drama song titled "Ponnarivaal ambiliyil kanneriyunnoole", written by his friend O. N. V. Kurup and composed and sung by himself.

KPAC and its members had a distinctive leaning towards the communist ideology, and their dramas played a role in spreading the ideology among the Keralite masses.

1952

Through his compositions, Devarajan would cast an indelible imprint in the Malayali theatre arena, especially after the famous KPAC drama Ningalenne Communistaakki, written by Thoppil Bhasi in 1952.

1955

The first movie for which he composed music was Kaalam Maarunnu (1955).

1959

He teamed up with poet-lyricist Vayalar Ramavarma in Chathurangam in 1959.

1962

His third movie – and the second with Vayalar – Bharya (1962) became a huge hit and made them a popular combination.

His collaborations with Vayalar produced the golden era of Malayalam film music.

Devarajan is remembered by singers in Malayalam like K. J. Yesudas and Jayachandran as their Godfather.

Devarajan was known for his use of numerous raagas in Malayalam film music, using more than 100s of them in his compositions.

His music embraced different styles with the Carnatic and Hindustani melody lines meeting folk idioms and Western harmony.

Despite being a strong atheist, he composed devotional songs like "Harivarasanam", "Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil", "Chethi Mandaram Thulasi", and "Nithyavishudhayam Kanyamariyame", which are considered classics in that genre.

Also, he is particularly noted for his remarkable ability to blend the words of the lyrics with the mood of the situation in his film song compositions, exercising self-restraint while writing songs for the uninitiated audience without relinquishing the magic of his poetry.

Most of his hit songs were written by Vayalar Ramavarma.

1970

The Vayalar-Devarajan combine proved the most successful team till the death of Vayalar in the mid-1970s.

Hundreds of songs contributed by the team are still part of Malayalis' nostalgia.

Apart from Vayalar, he has also given tunes to lyrics by other poets and songwriters like O. N. V. Kurup, P. Bhaskaran, Sreekumaran Thampi and Bichu Thirumala.

Devarajan was at one point in time regarded as the doyen of film music in South India.

He was much feared and respected by all musicians and singers of that period, for his sound knowledge of Classical music.

It might be due to this dominance he had over others that he was widely known as arrogant.

But he enjoyed a royal status till his death in the music circles.

Yesudas, P. Madhuri, P. Susheela, and P. Jayachandran sang most of his songs.

He has sung with more than 130 singers.

M. K. Arjunan, R. K. Shekhar, Johnson, Vidyasagar, Oussepachan, M. Jayachandran, Ilayaraja, A. R. Rahman and many others who later became famous as music directors worked as his assistants, conductors, and instrumentalists.

1999

In 1999, he was honoured with the J. C. Daniel Award, Kerala government's highest honour for contributions to Malayalam cinema.

Born at Paravur, near Kollam in then Travancore to mridangist and classical singer Paravur Kochu Govindan Asan and Kochukunju as their eldest son.

His grandfather, Narayanan Asan, was a Kathakali artist.

His dad, though he was a mridangam vidwan and a disciple of Dakshinamurthy Pillai, primarily taught vocal to his students, and thus Devarajan learned Carnatic vocal for around 12–13 years adeptly from his own father through that.