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‘Thenisai Thendral’ Deva (1950-2026): The maestro who took gaana to the masses
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Chennai: Legendary music composer Deva, who passed away here on Saturday at the age of 75 due to a cardiac arrest, not only brought Tamil gaana — a working-class urban folk music genre from Chennai — into the mainstream by popularising it among the masses but also dominated the Tamil music landscape in the 1990s alongside legends Ilaiyaraja and A R Rahman. Born as Devanesan Chokkalingam in Mylapore here, Deva scored music for over 400 films in a three-decade career spanning Tamil, Malayalam, Kan
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