T. M. Soundararajan
| T. M. Soundararajan | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | TMS |
| Born |
24 March 1922 Madurai, Madras Presidency, British India |
| Origin | Madurai, Madras Presidency, British India |
| Died | 25 May 2013 (aged 91) Chennai, India |
| Genres | Playback Singing and Classical Musician. |
| Occupation(s) | Singer and Actor |
| Instruments | Vocal |
| Years active | 1946–2013 |
Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan (24 March 1922 – 25 May 2013), popularly known as TMS, was a playback singer in Kollywood for over six decades. He gave his voice to actors and thespians in the South Indian film industry such as M. G. Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan, N. T. Rama Rao, Gemini Ganesan, S. S. Rajendran, Jaishankar, Ravichandar, AVM Rajan, Muthuraman, Nagesh,Siva Kumar,Kantha Rao, Rajkumar and A. Nageswara Rao. He also gave his voice to many new generation actors like Kamalahasan, Rajanikanth, Vijayakanth, Satyaraj, Rajesh, Prabhu, Vijaya Kumar,in addition to various other known and unknown heroes and supporting actors like M.R.Radha,K R Ramaswami,T.Rajendar,V.K.Ramaswami,Thengai Sreenivasan,M.N.Nambiar,Thangavelu,Y.G.Mahendran,R.S.Manohar,S.V.Ashokan,Ranjan,etc. He has sung over 10,138 songs from more than 5,000 films, including over 3,000 devotional,semi-classical,Carnatic, classical and light music songs. He has also given classical concerts since 1945. In a career spanning over 6 decades he has recorded film songs in eleven languages including, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and other languages. He was an excellent lyricist,music composer for most of the ever green devotional songs that was recorded in thousands by numbers. He was the music director for the film "Bala Parikshai". His peak period as a male playback singer in the South Indian film industry was from 1955 to 1985.The first film song was in the year 1946,at the age of 24 and the last film song was with Great P.Suseela during 2010 at the age of 88.TMS died on 25 May 2013 at his residence in Mandaveli, Chennai due to illness. He was 91 years old at the time of his death.
Soundararajan was born in Madurai second son of the Meenakshi Iyengar and Venkatammaa on 24 March 1922. He had been training his voice since he was 7 years old. He was born in a prominent priest family and his elder brother was a scholar. He first studied carnatic music from Chinnakonda Sarangapani Bhagavathar, a music teacher from Sourashtra High School, Madurai. Later, he learnt carnatic music from Arayakkudi Rajamani Iyengar and started giving stage concerts at the age of 23. His first carnatic musical concert was at SathGuru Samajam, Madurai in the year 1945 with violinist C. R. Mani and Mridangist S. S. Vijaya Ratnam accompanying him on the instruments. He started singing in stage concerts in the voice of the then-famous classical singer and actor M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar.
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