Joshua Sridhar (born 1974 in

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

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) is an Indian composer. He made his debut on the runaway hit Tamil film '' Kaadhal'' which was released on 8 December 2004.

Early life and education

Joshua Sridhar was born in

on 9 March 1974 to Saravanan and Rajalakshmi. He studied at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram in

from 1980 to 1990. After finishing High School he studied Western Classical Music for two years. He studied 8 Grades (Trinity College, London) in both Theory of Music and Piano. In 1993 he converted to Christianity and was baptised at Emmanuel Methodist Church (Chennai) and was given the name Joshua, the biblical character from the old testament. Not wanting to remove the name he was given at the time of birth he kept the name Sridhar and came to be known as Joshua Sridhar.

Career

Joshua Sridhar began his career in the year 1993 composing, arranging and programming music for gospel albums and jingles. In the year 1996, he entered

Indian cinema The cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century. Indian cinema is made up of various film industries, each focused on p ...

. He worked as a keyboard player/programmer for many Indian film composers (notably Manisharma & A.R.Rahman) between 1996 and 2004. In 2004 made his film debut as composer of Kaadhal. The film was released on 8 December 2004.

Filmography

Notes: * The films are listed in order that the music released, regardless of the dates the film released. * The year next to the title of the affected films indicates the release year of the either dubbed or remade version in the named language later than the original version. * • indicates original language release. Indicates simultaneous makes, if featuring in more languages. * ♦ indicates a remade version, the remaining ones being dubbed versions.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sridhar, Josh Tamil film score composers Living people 1974 births Musicians from Chennai