Simon K. King is an Indian film composer who predominantly composes music for Tamil and Telugu films. He made his debut with
Sasi's ''
Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu'' (2013) and is well known for the song "Yavvana" from the film
''Sathya'', and for background score in ''
Kolaigaran
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.''
Career
Simon K.King started his music career as a
keyboard programmer while he was pursuing his graduation in
electrical engineering. He then continued to work on developing his interests in composing and arranging music. From there he started composing
jingles
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where he has notably worked on more than 300 jingles for various brands. Simultaneously he worked as a
freelance music producer
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for many music directors in
Tamil
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* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
**Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils
**Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia
* Tamil language, nativ ...
,
Hindi
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,
Telugu
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* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
,
Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...
and
Malayalam
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film industries.
Interview with Simon, music director of Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu (555) , Musicperk – Trending news, analysis, reviews, ratings and exclusive content for music
Musicperk. Retrieved on 12 November 2015.
Discography
Television
References
External links
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Living people
21st-century classical composers
Tamil film score composers
Tamil musicians
1986 births
Telugu film score composers