MUMBAI: There are two great days in a person’s life, maybe more than two in fact. However, the day we are born and the day we discover why. Be it the neat production, the attractive lyrics, energizing music or the soulful singing, you can’t get over Ram Sampath.

The celebrated music producer-director Ram Sampath who turned 40 today, is a prodigy and he constantly strives for better. We at Radioandmusic would like to take you through some of the facts about the musician which you should know.

•  Both of his parents were musically inclined, while his grandfather TV Ramanujam was one of the founders of Shanmukhananda Hall (established in 1952), a cultural centre in Sion, Mumbai.
   
•  Sampath has learnt Carnatic music for eight years and during his college he played keyboard in a rock band.
   
•  His first toy was an LP player and his parents told him that from the age of two, he would mount his own LP and play it himself.
   
•  Sampath started composing at the age of eight and by the age of 12, he was clear about the fact that he wanted to be a composer.
   
• Ram Sampath started his career composing ad jingles and he has jingles for brands like Airtel, Docomo, Thums Up, Pepsi, The Times of India among others.
   
• His first produced indipop album was Loveology (1996) and the singer was Shaan.
   
• Ram Sampath met Sona Mohapatra in 2002 and got married within three years in 2005.
   
• Best known for his work in Delhi Belly, Ram Sampath’s Bollywood debut as a music director was in 2004 for Rajkumar Santoshi’s film Khakee.
   
• The musical couple is also business partners in their music production house OmGrown Music.
   
• In 2009, he appeared as a judge of singing reality series, MTV Rock On (Season 1) on MTV India, along with singer Kailash Kher and Nikhil Chinapa.
   
• Sampath is also the man behind the popular title track Tera Rang Aisa (2002) forSatyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan.