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Vidyasagar is an Indian Composer, Musician and Singer who works predominantly in the Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi film industries.
Vidyasagar was born to a Telugu musical family, brought up in Bobbili, who got exposed to music at a very early age of 3 by his father who was a self-led musician. He underwent carnatic vocals training first and then started taking classical guitar classes in Chennai from Master Dhanraj along with A. R. Rahman and then later piano.
After working with several composers as assistant and conductor, Vidyasagar made his debut as a film composer in the 1989 Tamil film ‘Poomanam’. Working for over 250 feature films, he is the recipient of the prestigious National Award and five Filmfare Awards.
Vidyasagar became an independent film composer with the song En Anbe in the 1989 Tamil movie Poomanam. Vidyasagar started his music career with a Tamil film, he gained recognition in the Tamil music industry at a later stage. He shifted base to Telugu cinema in 1989.
In 1994–95, Vidyasagar was approached by Tamil actor-director Arjun, with whom he worked for many acclaimed musical films like ‘Jai Hind’, ‘Karna’ and ‘Subash’. Their combination resulted in acclaimed Tamil language melodic songs like Malare and Padu Padu.
From 1996 to 2001 Vidyasagar mainly concentrated on Malayalam films.
From the year 2002, he started churning out blockbusters in Tamil and Malayalam simultaneously,The song ‘appadi podu’ in Ghilli was accepted widely by all the listeners.
During this period, Vidyasagar composed for his first English language feature, ‘Beyond The Soul’, a low-budget independent film directed by Rajiv Anchal.
In 2007, Vidyasagar was signed by Prakash Raj for his production venture ‘Mozhi’ starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Jyothika. The film directed by Radha Mohan had critically acclaimed melodies like ‘Kaatrin Mozhiye’ and ‘Sevvanam’.
After his brief dull phase in Malayalam, he bounced back into the scene with the Lal Jose directorial ‘Neelathamara’, scripted by the legendary M.T. Vasudevan Nair, with the song ‘Anuraga Vilochananaayi’ becoming a cult favourite.
his noteble albums are ‘Oru Indian Pranayakatha’, ‘Anbe Sivam’, ‘Dongodu’, ‘Chandramukhi’, ‘Swarabhishekam’, ‘Mozhi’, ‘Kuruvi’, ‘Neelathamara’, ‘Siruthai’, ‘Kaavalan’, ‘Diamond Necklace’, ‘Ennum Eppozhum’, ‘Jomonte Suvisheshangal’.
