C. S. Jayaraman

C. S. Jayaraman
Genres	Kollywood films
Occupation(s)	actor, Playback singer, music director
Instruments	Vocalist

Chidambaram Sundaram Pillai Jayaraman or C. S. Jayaraman (Tamil: சி. எஸ். ஜெயராமன்) was a noted actor, music director and a successful playback singer whose numerous songs were featured in many Tamil films, between the 1940s and 1970s.

Jayaraman hailed from the temple town Chidambaram and his father was a noted traditional Tamil music vocalist Sundaram Pillai. Jayaraman was a brother in law of M. Karunanidhi, then the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, India. It was through the courtesy of Jayaraman, who had solicited a movie-industry career to Karunanidhi as a good script writer to the senior script writer cum director Arul Soosai Arokiya Sami or the popular A. S. A. Sami. M. Karunanidhi entered the Tamil movie world in 1947 in the A. S. A. Sami directed movie Rajakumari which starred M. G. Ramachandran in the hero role.

Jayaraman's birth year is not well known. As he had begun acting in Tamil movies in 1934, it could be assumed that he was born around 1917. Jayaraman had acted in the Tamil movies: Krishna Leela (1934), Bhakta Duruvan (1935), Nalla Thangaal (1935), Leelavathi Sulochana (1936), Izhantha Kaadhal (1941), Poompaavai (1944) and Krishna Bakthi (1948).

In addition, he was the sole music director for the Tamil movies, Udayanan Vaasavathatha (1946) and Ratha Kanneer (1954). For two movies, Vijayakumari (1950) and Krishna Vijayam (1950), he functioned as a co-music director as well. Jayaraman's gifted tremolo voice and his enunciation of Tamil words had a mystic charm and grace to the fact that he owned the title Tamil Isai Chittar (Tamil: தமிழ் இசை சித்தர்) which reads as Tamil Music Mystic. Jayaraman also had sung a few songs in Kannada movies.

He died on January 29, 1995.

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