The man who is known to be soft-spoken, mighty religious and passionate about music – Harris Jayaraj celebrates his birthday today. SOFT, SOOTHING and MELODIOUS….these words are apt when it comes to describing Harris Jayaraj's style of music.

Ever since the Gautham Menon film 'Minnale' reached the masses, Harris Jayaraj had become a household name in Tamilnadu. Every single song in the film was embraced with complete raptures by the multitudes so much so that Harris Jayaraj was spoken of more than Madhavan and debut director Gautham Menon. A dream beginning indeed.

Highly sought after from then on Harris Jayaraj exhibited his musical skills with the films 'Lesa Lesa', 'Saamy', 'Chellamae', 'Samurai', 'Kovil' etc.

With audiences completely enjoying Harris Jayaraj's music, scores of directors were mighty keen on having Harris Jayaraj's music for their films and famous associations formed. The Harris - Gautham partnership started and the films 'Khakka Khakka', 'Gharshana' (Telugu) 'Vettaiyadu Villayadu', 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Main' (Hindi), 'Pachaikili Muthucharam', and 'Vaaranam Ayiram' were very well loved by the masses.

Harris had another partnership going with the highly talented late Jeeva and wonderful films that had music as a poignant force came out. '12B', 'Ullam Letkume', 'Unnale Unnale' and 'Dhaam Dhoom'.

It was not only these partnerships that kept the talented musician going. His songs rocked in the films 'Ghajini', 'Anniyan' etc. Harris Jayaraj also composed music for a few Telugu films - 'Munna', 'Sainikudu', 'Vasu'.

Harris Jayaraj was born in a pious Christian family on the 8th of January 1975 in Chennai. His father is an Evangelist Musician who also worked as a film guitarist. Harris studied in the Krishnasamy Matriculation School and was always interested in music and hoped to have a dynamic career in music. Having assisted musicians such as A. R. Rahman, Vidhyasagar, Karthik Raja and Adhityan, he slowly climbed up the ladder and found a firm position for himself in the film industry.

An interesting piece of statistics that was noticed of late is that, it is Harris Jayaraj's songs that are frequently aired on FM stations even ahead of Illayaraja and A. R. Rahman. Surely a terrific honor bestowed by music lovers.

Indiaglitz wishes the highly talented Harris Jayaraj a very happy birthday.