NEW YORK
Music maestro A. R. Rahman will kick start his three-month-long North American tour this spring. Beginning May 21 at The Paramount in Huntington, New York, Rahman will travel to major cities across the country including the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey, the Beacon Theatre in New York City, Bass Concert Hall in Austin, The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago and the Nokia Theatre at Los Angeles.
“I’ve been wanting to return to North America to perform for a while now, and I’m excited to be coming back for a series of concerts this spring,” Rahman said in a press release. “These are going to be very special performances and I’m grateful to have the chance to share them with you.”
The concert will include a range of material from his illustrious career, which has spanned two decades. A two-time Academy Award winner, Rahman was hailed by Time magazine as “the musician who has helped redefine contemporary Indian music” and is one the world’s best-selling recording artists of all time.
Rahman has sold more than 150 million albums comprising of music from more than 100 film soundtracks and spanning over half a dozen languages, including landmark scores such as “Roja”, “Bombay”, “Dil Se”, “Taal”, “Lagaan”, “Jodhaa Akbar”, “Delhi 6”, “Slumdog Millionaire”, “127 Hours”, “Rockstar”, “Couples Retreat”, “People Like Us”, “Highway”, “Million Dollar Arm”, and “The Hundred-Foot Journey.” . Rahman’s non-film projects include orchestrations for athletic and other big events, including the Commonwealth Games in 2010 and the London Olympics opening ceremony in 2012.
He is currently working on a composition for the forthcoming film “Pele,” a biopic chronicling the legendary Brazilian soccer player’s life.
Winner of two Academy awards, two Grammy awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, and 29 Filmfare awards, Rahman has also been awarded six honorary doctorates, the most recent being from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts