ISAIGNANI ILAIYARAJA TO WIN THIS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FROM KERALA GOVERNMENT!

Having ventured into Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and most Indian languages, the music composer has over 40 years of experience working in this industry. Now, Kerala Government have released an official press note mentioning that Ilaiyaraja will be awarded the Harivarasanam Award.

This award will be presented to the Maestro on the 15th of January 2020 at 9 AM, at the Sabarimala Sannidhanam. The award carries a cash prize of Rs one lakh and a citation and was first instated in 2012. The first recipient of the Harivarasanam award was KJ Yesudas. The other recipients are KG Jayan (2013), M Jayachandran (2014), SP Balasubrahmanyam (2015), MG Sreekumar (2016), Gangai Amaran (2017), KS Chitra (2018), and P Susheela (2019).