Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian composer and musician who predominantly works in South Indian language films.

He mainly scores music for Tamil films and Telugu films along with few Kannada,Hindi and Malayalam films. Considered a versatile composer, he is particularly known for his use of Western music elements and often credited with having introduced hip hop to the Tamil film and music industry and started the "era of remixes" in Tamil Nadu which included mixed EDM and jazz. He is frequently referred to as the "BGM King" and the "Young Maestro" of Tamil Film Music. Yuvan has won two Filmfare Awards South, five Mirchi Music Awards South, four Vijay Awards and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.

Within a span of 25 years, Yuvan has worked on over 150 films. Being the youngest son of composer Ilaiyaraaja, he began his musical career in 1996, at the age of 16, when he composed the film score for Aravindhan. He got his breakthrough with the Thulluvadho Ilamai (2002) soundtrack, and established himself as one of Tamil cinema's most sought-after composers by the mid-2000s. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil in 2004 for his score in the drama 7G Rainbow Colony. In 2006, he became the only Indian composer to win the Cyprus International Film Festival Award for the soundtrack of Raam. He also won the Filmfare Special Award – South in 2009 for his Telugu musical Oy!.

In 2015, Yuvan created his own music label, U1 Records and in 2017, he started his own film production studio, YSR Films.

Yuvan Shankar Raja has worked with many prominent actors, directors, and also debut filmmakers and delivered chartbuster songs to all of them respectively. Recently, after 20 years of gap, he reunites with Thalapathy Vijay for #Thalapathy68 which is to be directed by Venkat Prabhu. The announcement made the fans of the actor, composer as well as the director go crazy and it is just set the expectation bar more higher. Let's wait and witness what Young Maestro has in store for Thalapathy.

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