Grand virtual music season

By
Renowned Cartoonist and Artist
Keshav Venkataraghavan
M 9790929563 email:kamadenu@gmail.com
Compiled by Dr. Balasandilyan
Lyricist, Music Lover, Singer, Poet, M- 9840027810

 Balamurali Krishna was born in
Sankaraguptam, East Godavari
District, Andhra Pradesh state.
His father was a well known
musician and could play the
flute, violin and the veena and
his mother was an excellent
veena player. His mother died
when he was an infant and
Balamuralikrishna was raised by
his father. Observing his
penchant for music, his father
put him under the tutelage of
Parupalli Ramakrishnayya
Pantulu, a direct descendant of
the shishya parampara of
Tyagaraja.
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 Semmangudi Radhakrishna Srinivasa
Iyer (Tamil: செம்மங்குடி
ராதாக்ருஷ்ண ஸ்ரீ஥ிவாஸ
ஐயர்) (25 July 1908 – 31 October
2003) was a Carnatic vocalist. He was
the youngest recipient of the
Sangeetha Kalanidhi awarded by the
Music Academy in 1947 and has
received many awards including
Padma Bhushan and Padma
Vibhushan from the Government of
India,Sangeet Natak Academy award
(1953), Isai Perarignar from
Government of Tamil Nadu and
Kalidas Samman from Government of
Madhya Pradesh. He was
affectionately addressed as
"Semmangudi Maama" (Semmangudi
Uncle) by his disciples.He was also
considered the "Pitamaha" or the
grand sire of modern Carnatic Music

 Begum Parveen Sultana
(Assamese: বেগম পাৰৱীন
চুলতানা) (born 10 July 1950)
is an Assamese Hindustani
classical singer of the Patiala
Gharana.
 She was awarded the Padma
Shri (1976), Padma Bhushan
(2014) by the Government of
India, and the Sangeet Natak
Akademi Award, 1999, given
by Sangeet Natak Akademi,
India's National Academy of
Music, Dance and Drama.

 Swami Haridhos Giri has gone to a
lot of countries and has given so
many awesome speeches and sang
bhajans just like Swami
Vivekananda. He has even spoke
about Swami Vivekananda. He is the
Chief Disciple of Swami
Gnanananda Giri. He was devoted
his entire life to serve the Lord
Panduranga and his guru,
Gnanananda Giri. During his time,
he established spiritual haven in
Thennangur-Dakshina Halasyam in
South India. Haridhos Giri built
temple of Panduranga, shrine of his
beloved guru Gnanananda Giri and
also he has built cottages for people
to stay, temples, and canteen. Swami
Haridhos Giri saved for 14 years and
built the place

 Subbudu spent his early life in
Burma (present name Myanmar). In
the wake of the World War II, under
general evacuation orders by the
British, his family left Burma,
undertaking a long and hard
journey on foot through the North-
East India. In India, first he moved
to Shimla and soon blossomed into
a cultural critic, when he started
commenting local carnatic music
soirees. Soon Kalki the Tamil
magazine started by Kalki
Krishnamurthy and T. Sadasivam.
published his first full-fledged
review. A chance meeting with V K
Narayana Menon, the then Deputy
Director of All India Radio resulted
in Subbudu's appointment as dance
and music critic for the newspaper
The Statesman.

 He was born to Sri Ramaswamy
Sastri and Smt. Meenakshi at
Kunnakudi, a temple town of Lord
Murugan in the South Indian state
of Tamil Nadu.
 His father was a scholar in Sanskrit
and Tamil, and a composer and
exponent of Carnatic Music and
Kathakalakshepam. Vaidyanathan
started learning South Indian
Classical Music from his father at a
very young age.
 Vibhuti or sacred Ash and a large
Vermilion dot smeared prominently
on his forehead were his trademark
symbols.

 Her birth name was Mani
Perundevi. Her father,
LakshmiNarasimhachari, was
the Secretary of Vellore
Sangeetha Sabha. When Mani
was six years of age, her
mother Maragathavalli taught
her to play violin. Mani's
husband Krishnaswamy is an
active arts promoter. Mani
Krishnaswamy followed the
Musiri Tradition. She was a
key figure in popularizing the
works of Musiri Subramania
Iyer

 Doreswamy Iyengar, generally
known as Mysore V. Doreswamy
Iyengar (1920 – October 28, 1997 was
a Carnatic musician and one of the
greatest exponents of the Veena in
modern history. Born into a family
of musicians, His father, Venkatesha
Iyengar, was himself a Vainika and a
musician in the court of the
Maharaja of Mysore.
 He started learning the Veena from
his father at an early age and soon
became the disciple of Veena
Venkatagiriyappa, one of the
foremost Vainikas of the day in
Mysore. He performed in the
esteemed presence of the then
Maharaja of Mysore at the age of 12

 Chaurasia was born in Allahabad in
the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
His father was a wrestler. His mother
died when he was 6. He had to learn
music without his father's
knowledge, for his father wanted
him to become a wrestler. He did go
to the Akhada and train with his
father for some time, although he
also started learning music and
practising at his friend's house.
Apart from classical music, he has
made a mark as a music director for
Indian films along with Shivkumar
Sharma, forming a group called
Shiv-Hari. He has collaborated with
world musicians in experimental
cross-cultural performances,
including the fusion group Shakti.

 Umayalpuram
Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman
(born 17 December 1935) is
an Indian mridangam
player. He was awarded the
Padma Vibhushan, India's
second highest civilian
honor, on the occasion of
the country's 61st Republic
Day observance on 26
January 2010 and received
an honorary doctorate
from the University of
Kerala in 2010

 Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram
(born Aug 11, 1942), also known as
Vikku Vinayakram is a Grammy
Award–winning Indian
percussionist. He plays Carnatic
music with the ghatam, an earthen
pot, and is credited with
popularizing the ghatam.
 He was awarded the Padma Shri,
given by Government of India in
2002,and later the 2012 Sangeet
Natak Akademi Fellowship, the
highest honour in the performing
arts conferred by the Sangeet Natak
Akademi, India's National Academy
for Music, Dance and Drama. Finally
he was awarded the Padma Bhushan
in 2014.

 Karaikudi Mani (born as
Ganapathy Subramanyam
on 11 September 1945 in
Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu,
India) is an Indian
percussionist, primarily
adept in the mridangam.
He is regarded by the vast
majority of Carnatic
connoisseurs and
aficionados as one of the
greatest mridangam
players ever.

 Guruvayur Dorai (born July 2, 1935)
is an Indian percussionist. He is one
of the most senior-most exponents
of the South Indian classical
percussion instrument, the
mridangam. He had his initial
training under Palghat Subba Iyer
and E.P. Narayana Pisharody, and
later from the legendary master
Palani Subramaniam Pillai.
Initiating his concert performances
at the age of eight, Guruvayur Dorai
has performed on the concert
platform for the past 60 years. His
wide range of efforts in the field of
mridangam and music have helped
propagate the art around the globe.

 Kanyakumari is a native of
Vijayanagaram, Andhra
Pradesh and has been living
in Chennai for more than 4
decades.She belongs to a
family of musicians.Her
parents Sri Avasarala
Ramarathnam and
Smt.Jayalakshmi encouraged
her immensely to pursue
music. She was fortunate to
be a sishya (disciple) of 3
great legendary gurus, Ivaturi
Vijeswara Rao, M.
Chandrasekaran and M. L.
Vasanthakumari.

 Govinda Rao Harishankar,
(India, June 10, 1958 –
February 11, 2002) was a
player of the kanjira, a
tambourine-like frame
drum used in the Carnatic
music of South India. As of
2012, he is the only kanjira
player to be awarded the
Sangeet Natak Akademi
Award, the highest
national recognition given
to performing artists

 Uppalapu Srinivas (28
February 1969 – 19 September
2014) was a virtuoso Indian
mandolin maestro, prodigy,
trailblazer and composer
belonging to the classical
Carnatic musical tradition of
Southern India. Recognized
worldwide as a colossus and
the rarest of musical geniuses,
Srinivas is regarded as the
Mozart of classical Indian
music. Srinivas pioneered the
introduction of the mandolin,
a western instrument, into
classical Carnatic music,

 Kadri Gopalnath was born in
1949 in the city of Mangalore to
Thaniappa and Gangamma.[1]
He acquired a taste for music
from his father Thaniappa, a
nadaswaram vidwan. As a child,
Gopalnath once saw the
saxophone being played in the
Mysore palace band set. Upon
hearing the vibrant tone of the
saxophone, Gopalnath decided
to master it. It took him nearly
20 years to conquer the complex
western wind instrument, and
he was eventually crowned as the
"Saxophone Chakravarthy

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born January 10,
1940) is an Indian Carnatic musician and
filmi playback singer.
Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional
and cinematic songs . He has recorded more
than 70,000 songs[not in citation given] in
many languages including Malayalam,
Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali,
Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit,
Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and
English during a career spanning more than
five decades. He has performed in most
Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani
and Kashmiri.He also composed a number
of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and
1980s. Yesudas is fondly called Gana
Gandharvan (The Celestial Singer).
Yesudas has won the National Award for the
Best Male Playback Singer seven times (the
most by any Indian singer), 5 Filmfare
Awards and the State Award for the Best
Playback Singer 43 times

 The Hyderabad Brothers,
D. Raghavachari and D.
Seshachari, are a Carnatic
music singing
duo.Hyderabad Brothers
are one among the most
popular duo vocalists in
Indian Classical Carnatic
music. They are popularly
known as Hyderabad
brothers because of their
long association with the
city

 Dr. Lakshminarayana
Subramaniam (born 23 July
1947) is an acclaimed
Indian violinist, composer
and conductor, trained in
the classical Carnatic
music tradition and
Western classical music,
and renowned for his
virtuoso playing
techniques and
compositions in orchestral
fusion.

 Sudha Raghunathan (Tamil:சுதா
ரகு஥ாதன்) is a Carnatic composer
and vocalist from South India.
 Padma Bhushan award in the field
of Carnatic vocal music (2015).
 Sangita Kalanidhi from Madras
Music Academy (2013).
 Padma Shri award in the field of
Carnatic vocal music (2004).
 Sangeetha Choodamani, from Sri
Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai
(1997).
 Kalaimamani award from the state
government of Tamil Nadu, India
(1993).

 "Bombay" Jayashri Ramnath is an Indian
Carnatic music vocalist and music
composer. She is a disciple of violin
maestro Lalgudi Jayaraman.
 Another dimension of music which
Jayashri is focused on is in exploring the
therapeutic and healing value that music
can generate. She has been working
closely with institution like Kilikili,
Sampoorna in Karnataka and Sankalp in
Tamil Nadu which care for autistic
children. This domain is a matter of
serious engagement for Jayashri and her
students. Some other institutions that
Jayashri has worked with include: The
Banyan Chennai (rehabilitation of
homeless/mentally challenged women),
Vasantha Memorial Trust (cancer
patients),Stepping Stones Orphanage
Home, Malaysia, Multiple Sclerosis
Society of India, Bangalore and more.

 Nithyasree Mahadevan, (born 25
August 1973) also referred to as S.
Nithyashri, is an eminent Carnatic
musician and playback singer for
film songs in many Indian
languages. Mahadevan has
performed in all major sabhas in
India and has presented her concerts
in many destinations around the
world. She has received multiple
awards and honours, and has
released more than 500 albums.
 She is best known for her full-
throated rendition of the chart-
busting A. R. Rahman composition,
"Kannodu Kaanbadhellam" - her
playback debut song in the Tamil
movie Jeans.

 Sanjay Subrahmanyan (born 21 January
1968) is a Carnatic vocalist from India.
He has performed widely in India and
overseas and has won many awards for
his performances. Sanjay teaches music,
and has many successful students such
as Prashanth Viswanathan, Swarna
Rethas, Sandeep Narayan, and Prasanna
Venkatraman in the contemporary music
field.
 Sanjay Subrahmanyan has been the
subject of documentary film Aaraar
aasaippadaar by filmmaker Prasanna
Ramaswamy. It opened to rave reviews in
November 2006 in Chennai.
 He has performed in Chennai as well as
in Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Delhi
and other places in India. He has toured
Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,
Australia, US, Canada, UK, Switzerland
and Oman.

 ‘GHATAM’ KARTHICK, as he is
affectionately called is one of the shining
star artistes on his captivating CLAY POT
instrument. Dr.Karthick has shared the
stage with almost all top artists and has
been featured in many respected festivals
and many recordings. Inheriting the
legacy and heritage from his Great
Gurus, Padmasri Sri.T.H. Vikku
Vinayakram and Kalaimamani Sri.
T.H.Subash Chandran, Dr.Karthick has
travelled and performed all over the
world in various prestigious venues
including the ‘United Nations’.
 Dr. Karthick also leads, conducts and
orchestrates the popular ensembles
HEARTBEAT incorporating innovative
concepts in the fine art of
melodic/rhythmic improvisations.

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