Honours and accolades faithfully follow Rahman wherever he goes. The Oscar-Grammy winner has been selected and listed as one of ‘Tomorrow’s World Music Icons’ by the top United Kingdom based magazine — Songlines.

The music maestro winner has tweeted on his micro-blogging site, “It’s a great honour for me to be selected as one of ‘Tomorrow’s World Music Icons’ in the current issue of Songlines.”

Only recently Rahman’s composition ‘If I Rise…’ from the film ‘127 Hours’ has been nominated for the World Soundtrack Awards (WSA). The event will be held at Ghent, Belguim on the 22nd of October.

“‘If I Rise..’ from ‘127 Hours’ is nominated for the World Soundtrack Awards in the category - Best original song written directly for a film,” Rahman said. Performed by singer Dido and Rahman, ‘If I Rise…’ is a part of Danny Boyle’s 2010 movie ‘127 Hours’, which stars James Franco, Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara.