Nadaloludai / Kalyanavasantham / Rupakam / Thyagaraja / U Srinivas ( Mandolin )

Krithi: Nadaloludai Ragam: Kalyanavasantham Thalam: Rupakam Composer: Thyagaraja Mandolin : U Srinivas Uppalapu Srinivas was born 28 February 1969, in Palakollu in Andhra Pradesh. At the age of five, he picked up his father U. Satyanarayana's mandolin, after he heard it being played at a concert he attended with his father. Upon realizing the talent of his son, his father, who had studied classical music, bought him a new mandolin, and started teaching him. Guitarist Vasu Rao, introduced seven-year-old Srinivas to western music in 1976. Soon, Satyanarayana's guru, Rudraraju Subbaraju, (disciple of Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar) who had also taught Srinivas' father and Vasu Rao, recognized the potential of the young Srinivas and started teaching him. Since Rudraraju Subbaraju did not know how to play the mandolin, he would just sing pieces from the Carnatic classical repertoire, and U. Srinivas, all of six, would play them on the mandolin, thus developing a phenomenal style of playing entirely his own, and astonishingly, on an instrument that had never been played in the rigorous and difficult Carnatic style before. Soon, the family moved to Chennai, the hotspot of Carnatic music, where most Carnatic musicians live. When Srinivas gave his first performance it led to him being compared to the world's greatest prodigies: "Some of you have heard or read about exceptionally gifted children, our own Mandolin Srinivas, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Beethoven, Sir Isaac Newton, Picasso, Madam Curie, the list is endless. At a young age he was internationally viewed as the successor to Pandit Ravi Shankar. He was the first musician to use the electric mandolin in Carnatic music: he modified the electric western instrument, using five single strings instead of the traditional four doubled strings to suit the Carnatic pitch, raga system, and especially gamakas, or nuanced oscillations. Over his career, he toured across the world, and collaborated with John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook. U. Srinivas was an ardent devotee of the Paramacharya of Kanchi. He was also a follower and devotee of Sri Sathya Sai Baba and had performed in front of him on several occasions. Srinivas (also known as Mandolin Shrinivas) was undergoing treatment for a liver condition and had undergone a liver transplant on 11 September 2014. While recovering, he died at Apollo Hospital at 9:30 AM on 19 September 2014 after experiencing complications. Violin: A Kanyakumari Mridangam: Praveen Ghadam: H P Ramachar Thyagaraja Swamy teaches that one can attain Brahmananda, the supreme spiritual bliss, through devotion to sacred music (Nada). By immersing the mind in divine sound made of the seven swaras and ragas, one can experience the same bliss that even gods and sages revere. Pallavi Nada loludai brahmanandamandave manasa Anupallavi Swadu phala prada sapta swara raga nichaya sahita (Nada) Charanam Hari haratma bhu-sura pati Sara janma ganesadi vara maunulupasincha re dhara tyagaraju teliyu (Nada) ------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: These songs have been uploaded solely for listening pleasure and as an archive to preserve Carnatic music. I do not intend to violate any copyrights held by the respective owners of these songs. I do not own any copyright to the content uploaded. If any material infringes on your copyright, please notify me, and I will promptly remove it from my YouTube channel.