He received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director вЂ“ Tamil for his work in Minnale, breaking the 9 years continuous record of A.

The album was well received, particularly the song Vaseegara was exceptionally popular. Harris debuted as a film composer with Gautham Menon's Minnale. In his early years, he admired music composers M. Rahman, he composed music for various television commercials including a Coca-Cola commercial featuring actor Vijay. While working as an additional programmer under A. Rahman, Sadhu Kokila, Mani Sharma, Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Vidyasagar. He worked under noted composers including RajвЂ“Koti, A. He then started programming with his Roland MC-500 and went on to work as a programmer under more than twenty five music directors in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam, working in more than 600 projects till the year 2000. He started playing keyboard and developed interest over synthesizers. He started his music career as a guitarist in 1987 at age twelve. Harris scored the highest mark in Asia on his 4th grade exam of Trinity College of Music, London. His father wanted him to become a guitarist and made him learn classical guitar from Mr.A.Abdul Sattar. At age six, Harris began his formal training in carnatic music. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and an assistant to Malayalam music director Shyam and later became a noted musician and film composer. He studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School. His father is a Tamil Christian while his mother is from Madurai. Harris Jayaraj was brought up in Chennai.

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