Even before her first formal lesson, a varnam, the young girl had already picked up the corpus of songs that the entire household knew by heart, like Santhi Nilava Vendum, Eppadi Paadinaro, Maamava Pattabhirama. Nithyasree Mahadevan was born on 25th August 1973 to I. Sivakumar and Lalitha Sivakumar. A more…
Senior mridangist J. Vaidhyanathan believes his commitment to accompaniment begins right from arriving well on time for the concert. “A concert is like a yagna, a lot of effort—we should not cause any consternation to either the organiser or the artists—rather, we should ensure that we do whatever we can…