The following soundtrack albums 12B and Majunu met with high acclaim and praise. He received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil for his work in Minnale, breaking the 9 years continuous record of A. The album was well received, particularly the song Vaseegara was exceptionally popular. Harris ventured into film scoring with Gautham Menon's Minnale. Viswanathan, percussionist Aruljothi Balagopal, A. In his early years, he admired music composers M. While working as an additional programmer under Rahman, he composed music for various television commercials including a Coca-Cola commercial featuring actor Vijay. Rahman, Mani Sharma, Karthik Raja, Vidyasagar. He worked under noted composers including Raj-Koti, A. He then started programming with his Roland MC-500 and went on to work as a programmer under more than twenty five music directors in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya, working in more than 600 projects till the year 2000. After befitting as a guitar player, he started playing keyboard and developed interest over synthesizers. He started his music career as a guitarist in 1987 at age twelve. Harris scored the highest mark in Asia on his 4th grade exam of Trinity College of Music, London. His father wanted him to become a guitarist and made him learn classical guitar.

At age six, Harris began his formal training in carnatic music. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and an assistant to Malayalam music director Shyam and later became a noted musician and film composer. Harris studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School, K. Harris Jayaraj hails from a pious Christian Nadar family from Tirunelveli and was born and brought up in Chennai.

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