Finnish giant Nokia has recently released its Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone for its Indian users.
Ace music director A. R. Rahman, who has been associated with Nokia for several years now, launched the ‘Nokia 5800’ on his birthday on Tuesday.
Rahman has composed a complete album ‘Connections’ for Nokia, which is preloaded in this novel handset and three other models in the XpressMusic series.
Along with a user friendly interface, the new edition of Y-Browser for the XpressMusic phone has added in some handy extras and features.
India’s renowned singer-music composer AR Rahman turned 43 on January 6, 2009.
Rahman, who ihas beenalso honored by the title ’Mozart of Madras’, was born as A. S. Dileep Kumar on January 6, 1966 in Chennai.
His birth name A. S. Dileep Kumar was turned to Allah Rakkha Rahman (AR Rahman) when his family in 1970 adoptsed Islamic religion.
Thise young land Rahman started his career in 1992, when he was approached by film director Mani Ratnam to compose the music for Ratnam’s Tamil flick Roja .
Indian singer-music composer A R Rahman has bagged Satellite Award for Best Original Score for his music in British director Danny Boyle’s flick “Slumdog Millionaire”.
Besides this award, Rehman has pocketed two more satellite awards from International Press Academy for Picture-Drama and Best Director for Boyle.