A.R.Rahman是印度乐坛的重要人物之一，并迅速成为印度在世界乐坛的大使。在他众多作品当中，最引人注目的是享誉世界的《印度之行》(Lagaan)和音乐剧《孟买之梦》(Bombay Dreams)，Andrew Lloyd Webber担任制片，今年夏天在伦敦拉开帷幕。Rahman将现代音乐和传统东方旋律相结合的独特风格在西方引起了强烈反响。\r Born A.S. Dileep Kumar on January 6th, 1966, in Madras, India, Allah Rakha Rahman was exposed to music from the time he was a child, entered in classical piano studies by his parents at the age of four. At 16, he quit school and was following in his father's footsteps (K.A. Sekhar was a successful film musician, arranger, and conductor himself), working full-time as a session musician on soundtracks under the popular South Indian composer Illaiyaraja. The monotony soon grew tiring however, and at the suggestion of a colleague, Rahman tried his hand at television commercials, eventually composing over 300 jingles in just five years. It wasn't until 1989 that ...