# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/varadharajan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:43:02.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/varadharajan"
name: "Varadharajan"
slug: "varadharajan"
description: "Ramasamy Daniel Varadharajan, popularly known as \"Pavalar\" Varadharajan, was a singer, lyricist, composer, musician, and playwright from Tamil Nadu, India. He headed a musical troupe named Pavalar Brothers in the 1960s. The group consisted of his later popular brothers - R. D. Bhaskar, Ilaiyaraaja, and Gangai Amaran."
tagline: "Singer, lyricist, musician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Pavalar_Varadharajan.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
deathDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.15
  momentum:             25
  historical:           2.346376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavalar_Varadharajan"
    title: "Pavalar Varadharajan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9C%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "வரதராஜன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110916838"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations