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Gobalsamy Ramanathan or G. Ramanathan ((タミル語: ஜி. இராமநாதன்)) was a music composer for Tamil movies. He is also known as ''Isai Methai'' (Genius of Music) or ''Sangeetha Chakravarthy'' (Emperor of Music) and considered to be one of the influential Tamil Music composers to take Carnatic Music to the masses. Notable for his association with M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar. G. Ramanathan also composed for films of Salem Modern Theatres and Coimbatore Central Studios. His career lasted until his death in 1963. During the 1950s G.Ramanathan's music dominated most of the box office hits of the then leading Tamil Movie stars Shivaji Ganesan and M. G. Ramachandran. ==Early life== G. Ramanathan (GR) was born in Bikshandarkoil, Srirangam, Tamil Nadu, India. GR's father was Gobalsamy Iyer who worked as sub-inspector in the Indian Railways. GR studied till standard 5. He was married in 1942 and has two daughters-one is Sai and the other is Lakshmi. He joined the Baratha Gana Saba, a drama troupe and played harmonium at the age of 18. Then he joined the famous V. A. Chellappa Drama company, and sang playback and played harmonium. In 1932, he first played musical instrument for a Tamil film called "Kalavarishi" which was produced in Calcutta. In 1938 M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar produced ''Sathyaseelan'' in Bombay and GR became the music director for that film which followed by the Vipranarayana (old). The first film to be produced in Madras with GR as the music director was Poogailas, followed by Parasuraman and Boologa Rambai(old). GR was a resident music director for the Modern Theatres since the beginning except a few which were done by K. V. Mahadevan. He had acted in ''Aayiram Thalai Vangiya Aboorva Chintamani'' (1947) as the role Sanyasi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「G. Ramanathan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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