Who is the highest paid singer in the industry. Its not SPB or the latest sensations Karthik and Tippu. It’s our old, Illayaraja. Yuvan Shankar is the music director of Ameer’s next Paruthiveeran. Yuvan whose combination with Ameer has always turned out to be good, had a top notch song composed for the movie. He was looking for a singer to give the right modulations and touch to the song.

Flash came the thought and he promptly fixed his dad for the assignment. “Only he can do justice to the song..” says the young composer. Illayaraja is said to be paid 2 lakhs for that single song, creating records of sort. The present salary for singers ranges from anywhere between ten to twenty five thousand rupees a song.