Vijay Antony Biography 
Vijay Antony is a music composer, playback singer and actor of Tamil cinema. Born in Nagercoil in 1975, he completed his degree course from the Trinity College London and set up his own in-house studio named Audiophiles in Chennai. He debut as a music director with the Tamil movie Dishyum in 2006. It was followed by the movie Sukran, but the movie got released one year earlier. Vairamuthu wrote the lyrics of his debut movie Dishyum while Vijay himself penned the lyrics of the song, Dailamo Dailamo. The duet was sung by himself alongside Sangeetha Rajeshwaran and became the chartbuster hit of the year. Thus Vijay established himself as a multi-facet personality of music with his debut movie. As a music director, his popular films are Naan, Kadhalil Vizhunthen, Vettaikkaaran and Ninaithale Inikkum. He has received multiple nominations and awards for these movies as well. His latest project ‘Salim’ will be released in 3 Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu and Hindi.
Vijay debut movies as an actor for the movie, Naan in 2012. He was its music director as well, thus becoming the first music director to venture out as an actor. He received 3 nominations in SIIMA awards for different categories. Those categories include – Best debutant, music director and Best Debutant Producer. He was the producer of the movie also. He was the first Indian to win the 2009 Cannes Golden Lion for ‘Nakka Mukka’ commercial for The Times of India in the Best of Music category. This song was played in the 2011 cricket world cup also.
As a music director he has received many awards also. He won Vijay Award for Favourite Song - Chinna Thamarai of the movie Vettaikaran in the year 2009. He received best music director nomination at Vijay awards as well. He has been nominated twice in Filmfare Best Music Director Award (Tamil) - Kadhalil Vizhunthen in 2008 and Ninaithale Inikkum, the following year.
Published: N/A
Updated: November 22, 2013
