Harris Jayaraj Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Harris Jayaraj
Nickname	The King of Melody (fondly called by his fans)
Profession(s)	Film Composer, Musician, Songwriter
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 173 cm in meters- 1.73 m in feet inches- 5’ 8”
Weight (approx.)	in kilograms- 70 kg in pounds- 154 lbs
Eye Colour	Dark Brown
Hair Colour	Black
Personal Life
Date of Birth	8 January 1975 (Wednesday)
Age (as of 2024)	49 Years
Birth Place	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Capricorn
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
School	Sri Krishnaswamy Matriculation Higher Secondary School, K K Nagar, Chennai
College/University	University of Madras, Chennai Trinity College of Music, London
Educational Qualification(s)	Graduate Grade 4 in music
Debut	Bhojpuri Music Composition: Pyaar ki Whiskey Tamil Film Composition: Minnale (2001) Bollywood Film Composition: Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (2001) Telugu Film Composition: Vasu (2002)
Religion	Christianity
Hobbies	Playing musical instruments, Writing
Awards/Achievements	Kalaimamani Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu Life Time Achievement Award from Konijeti Rosaiah, the Governor of Tamil Nadu Maestro Award from the Ritz Style Awards 2015
Girls, Affairs and More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	Suma Jayaraj
Marriage Date	18 October 1999
Family
Wife/Spouse	Suma Jayaraj
Children	Son- Nikhil Daughter- Nikitha
Parents	Father- S. M. Jayakumar (Film Guitarist) Mother- Name Not Known
Siblings	Not Known
Favourite Things
Favourite Musician(s)	M. S. Viswanathan, R.D. Burman, A.R. Rahman
Style Quotient
Car Collection	Lamborghini

Some Lesser Known Facts About Harris Jayaraj

Does Harris Jayaraj smoke?: Not Known

Does Harris Jayaraj drink alcohol?: Not Known

When Harris was six years old, he started learning ‘Carnatic music.’

He also got training in ‘Classical Guitar’ from ‘Mr. Abdul Sattar.’

In his Trinity College of Music London’s ‘Grade 4’ exam, he scored the highest marks in Asia.

At the age of 12, he started his career as a ‘Guitarist’ and made his film song debut with the Bhojpuri song ‘Pyaar ki Whiskey.’

He is trained in several other traditional and western musical instruments like ‘Synthesizer’, ‘Piano’, ‘Percussion’, and ‘Keyboard.’

Harris has composed several famous Bollywood songs including ‘Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein.’

He also composed music for TV commercials like ‘Coca-Cola’, etc.

Harris worked with numerous popular music directors and music composers like ‘Vidyasagar’, ‘Mani Sharma’, ‘Raj-Koti’, ‘A.R. Rahman’, ‘Karthik Raja’, etc. as a ‘Programmer.’

He worked in different languages like Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu.

In 2001, he started working as a film composer and made his debut with the Tamil film ‘Minnale.’ He was awarded the ‘Best Music Director – Tamil’ for that film at Filmfare Awards. The song ‘Vaseegara’ of that film became so popular. He even broke the music director A.R. Rahman’s 9 years record.

In 2009, Harris worked in two shelved films such as ’24’ and ‘Yoddha 2.’

He gave several live performances all over the world and his first tour was in 2011 named ‘Harris on the Edge.’

In January 2016, he founded his own studio, named, ‘Studio H’ and his first musical composition in this studio is ‘Halena’ from the Tamil film ‘Iru Mugan’ (2016).