Sid Sriram’s musicality is mindbogglingly diverse. Among his inspirations is renowned Carnatic vocalist Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer on one end of the spectrum, while American-Ghananian musician Stevie ...
At two years old, Rahul Vellal wasn’t humming absent-mindedly—he was identifying devotional and film songs. Up to 50 of them. His parents took the hint early, e ...
Carnatic music can look like a world of polish and perfection from the audience, but the ongoing Hyderabad Tyagaraja Aradhana ...
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Like other South Indian diaspora kids whose uprooted parents wanted them to retain something of their heritage, she may have started learning Carnatic music as a child. However, ...
I n LA-based musician Aditya Prakash’s album Isolashun (2023), a slow and bruised ditty titled XenoF.O.B draws from Wajid Ali ...
Jagadeesh sees this openness as a shared instinct. “Both Carnatic music and jazz are driven by personal exploration,” he says., adding, “It’s a continuous dialogue. There is no finishing point.” ...
The occasional pair of shoulders could be seen swaying among the hundreds gathered in the audience, as heads nodded and feet tapped to the rhythm of percussion and vocals of the Indian classical art ...