MUMBAI: Chennai's Radio Citizens were in for a treat on November 20, 2008 as Music Director Deva also known as �Thenisai Thendral' celebrated his birthday LIVE in-studio Chennai's Radio City 91.1FM on Vanakkam Chennai (7-11 AM) with RJ Gobi.

Deva celebrated his birthday with the Radio City team by cutting the birthday cake and interacting with a number of listeners who called in to the FM station from all across Chennai to send him their birthday wishes. He was especially overwhelmed to receive surprise calls to the studio from his son, granddaughter, son-in-law and other actors and singers.

Renowned for his �gaana paattu' (songs written mostly using Madras bashai and which even the common man can relate to), Music Director Deva is widely acknowledged as the 'Father of the Gaana Genre' in the Tamil movie industry.

With his knowledge of classical music, experience in Television and a course in Western music conducted by London Trinity Music College, he is one of the most successful music directors with more than 400 films to his credit which include Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. He is the music director who gave Superstar Rajinikanth the ever popular music in the hit movie �Baasha'. Some of the movies for which he has composed music are - Aasai, Annamalai, Vaali and Kadhal Kottai among several others.

Bringing Chennai intelligent infotainment which does not interfere with the listener's busy morning schedule, �Vanakkam Chennai' with RJ Gobi on Chennai oda Radio City 91.1FM is a light-hearted breakfast show packed with fun, informative snippets coupled with the best Tamil melodies. Discussing an array of various topics from fun astro predictions, listener call-ins, discussing issues dear to Chennai and listener feedback on the topic of the day, Vanakkam Chennai with RJ Gobi covers it all with the right mix of music and interactivity truly making Radio City 91.1FM - Namma city, Namma radio!