# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuvan-shankar-raja
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:13:52.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuvan-shankar-raja"
name: "Yuvan Shankar Raja"
slug: "yuvan-shankar-raja"
description: "Yuvan Shankar Raja, known officially as Abdul Khaliq, is an Indian composer and playback singer. He mainly scores music for Tamil films along with few Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi 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\" of Tamil film music. Yuvan has won two Filmfare Awards South, five Mirchi Music Awards South, three Vijay Awards and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards."
tagline: "Indian composer and singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuvan_Shankar_Raja_exclusive_HQ_Photos_Silverscreen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1979-08-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  53
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1420000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump