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Karthik Raja Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Family, Caste, Wiki & More

Updated On : June 29, 2018

Short Biography

Karthik Raja was born on 29-06-1973 in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He is an Indian Composer, Musician, Music Director & Singer who known for his work in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi and English films.

Karthik Raja Complete Bio & Career

Karthik Raja is a South Indian composer. He is from Chennai, India. In a Tamil film Alexander (1996), as a film composer, he had made his debut and since then he has continued his journey by scoring music for various commercial and critical feature films. He born in a family, where music was all around him. Since his childhood, From Trinity School of Music, he had exposed himself to the different types of music. In the Western classical music, he has got the formal training and it was mainly on piano. From respected T. V. Gopalakrishnan& respected V. Dakshinamoorthy, a Malayalam composer, he had got the training in Carnatic music.
 
In the childhood, Karthik Raja used to frequently visit recording studios with his father. In a small age, he played the keyboard, which was for the song named Kannukkum. The song was from the movie NinaikkaTherinda Manama in the year 1987. He had continued his journey through playing the keyboard. He had played it for the Nayagan movie’s soundtrack. Many recordings had been arranged by him for his musician Maestro father. He had composed the first song in 1992. The song was "PandianinRajiyathil" from the film Pandiyan. After that in 1993, he had composed the song "Ninaikindra", which was from the film Athma. For a TV series named Bible, some of the background scores were composed by him.
 
In a full swing, he had debuted in the year 1996. The movie was Alexander, which was a Tamil movie. He had continued with his next work at Manikyam. After that, there came many Chartbusters, which included various films like NaamIruvarNammakuIruvar, Ullaasam, DummDummDumm, KadhalaKadhala, and others. With the film Grahan, he had debuted in the Hindi films and for his work; he has won the prestigious R.D. Burman Award.

Karthik Raja Family, Relatives and Other Relations

Karthik Raja is the eldest son of the musician Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. His brother Yuvan Shankar Raja and sister Bhavatharini are also the Tamil film music directors and playback singers. They have worked with him on notable projects. On the 8 June 2000, Karthik Raja has married Raja Rajeswari in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Body Measurements

Chest Size 42
Biceps Size 15
Waist Size 32
Skin Colour Fair
Eye Colour Black
Hair Colour Black

Karthik Raja Age, Birthday Facts and Birthday Countdown

51 years, 4months, 9 days old age Karthik Raja will turn 52 on 29 June, 2025. Only 7 months, 21 days, 18 hours,20 minutes has left for his next birthday.

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Karthik Raja has celebrated the total number of 51 birthdays till date. See the analysis by days count and bar graph.

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