Saturday, August 3, 2013

“T M S” Life incidents now in TV Serial








Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan (March 24, 1922 - May 25, 2013






He was a playback singer in the Tamil film industry for over six decades. He gave his voice to a galaxy of actors and thespians in the South Indian film industry such as M. G. Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan, N. T. Rama Rao, Gemini Ganesan, S. S. Rajendran, Jaishankar, Rajkumar, A. Nageswara Rao, RaviChandar, Nagesh,AVM.Rajan,MuthuRaman,Siva Kumar, Ranjan, Kantha Rao, T S Balayya, Jagayya,RamaSwami,Rajesh, Rajanikanth, Kamal Hasan and a generation of actors over 60 years in the film industry. He is popularly known as TMS. He has sung over 10000 film songs in 5000 films [1] and over 3000 devotional songs from 1946 till 2008.[2] He had also given classical concerts since 1945. In a career spanning over 6 decades he has recorded film songs in eleven languages including, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and other Indian languages. He also composed music for several of the ever green devotional songs that was recorded.He was the music director for the film "Bala Parikshai". His peak period as a male playback singer in the South Indian film industry was from 1955 to 1985.Soundarajan died on May 25, 2013 at his residence in Mandaveli, Chennai due to illness. He was 91 years old at the time of his death