About this sound Ilaiyaraaja is an Indian film composer who works in the South Indian cinema but predominantly in Tamil since the late 1970s. Regarded as one of the greatest music composers in India, Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, singer, and songwriterIlayaraaja has composed more than 6000 songs and provided film scores for more than 1000 films, particularly being acclaimed for his background scores. Ilaiyaraja is a gold medalist in classical guitar from Trinity College of Music, London. In 2003, according to an international poll conducted by BBC, people from 155 countries voted his composition Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu from the 1991 film Thalapathi as fourth in the world's top 10 most popular songs of all time.