List of Carnatic artists
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The following is a list of prominent Carnatic musicians.
Prominent modern artists
Vocalists
Modern golden period of Carnatic music
The 1930s to the 1960s, often referred to as the modern Golden era of Carnatic music,[1][2] was a period in which a number of Carnatic vocalists of high calibre, great skill, and musical insight rose to fame as concert star-musicians.[3][4]
D. K. Pattammal, M. L. Vasanthakumari and M. S. Subbulakshmi, commonly referred to as the female trinity of Carnatic music,[5] were in their teenage years when they began their careers, and rose to fame during this era.[3] Other female singers that followed included K. B. Sundarambal,[3] N. C. Vasanthakokilam,[3] T. Brinda,[3] T. Muktha,[3] as well as Radha Jayalakshmi.[3]
The leading male vocalists during this period were Muthiah Bhagavathar,[3] Mysore Vasudevachar,Chintalapalli Venkata Rao, D Subbaramaiah,[6] Asthan Vidwan Chintalapalli Ramachandra Rao, Kanchipuram Naina Pillai, Kanchipuram N.S.Krishnaswamy Iyengar, Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer,[3]Nagercoil Sthanu Bhagavathar, Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar,[3] Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar,[3] Musiri Subramania Iyer,[3] Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer,[3] Alathur Brothers,[3] G. N. Balasubramaniam,[3] Madurai Mani Iyer,[3] Ramnad Krishnan,[3] Chittoor Subramaniam,[3] V. V. Sadagopalan,[3] Alathur Venkatesa Iyer, and M. D. Ramanathan among others.
The next generation of vocalists who were prominent in the concert area included K. V. Narayanaswamy,[4] D. K. Jayaraman,[4] Maharajapuram Santhanam,[4] Tanjore S. Kalyanaraman, S. Ramanathan, T. K. Rangachari, Mysore V. Ramarathnam, Madurai Somu, Sirkazhi Govindarajan, Vairamangalam Lakshminarayanan, Voleti Venkateswarulu, and Neyyattinkara Vasudevan, among others.
Past/Present Vocalists
Some of the most famous and accomplished senior vocalists today include Dr M Balamuralikrishna, K. J. Yesudas, T. V. Gopalakrishnan, T. N. Seshagopalan, R. Vedavalli, T. V. Sankaranarayanan, Neyveli Santhanagopalan, , S.R.Janakiraman, Nedanuri Krishnamoorthy, T. R. Subramaniam, Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana, Bombay Sisters, Neelaramgopal,O. S. Thyagarajan, P. S. Narayanaswamy, Prince Rama Varma, Manda Sudharani, M. S. Sheela, R. K. Srikantan, Raji Gopalakrishnan, Rama Ravi, Suguna Purushothaman, Suguna Varadachari, Parassala B Ponnammal, Vijay Siva, and others.
Current Vocalists
Leading current vocalists include T. M. Krishna, Sudha Ragunathan, Nithyashree Mahadevan, M. K. Sankaran namboothiri, Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Ranjani-Gayatri, Abhishek Raghuram, Bombay Jayashri, P. Unnikrishnan, Aruna Sairam, O. S. Arun, Vishaka Hari, T. M. Krishna, S. Sowmya, Sikkil Gurucharan, Malladi Brothers, Sriram & Anuradha Parashuram, Gayathri Venkataraghavan, and others.
Other popular current vocalists include Carnatica Brothers (Shashikiran & Ganesh), Charulatha Mani, Vani Sateesh, Raji Gopalakrishnan, Nisha Rajagopal, Gayathri Girish, K Bharat Sundar, Ramakrishnan Murthy, V. Shankaranarayanan, Savitha Narasimhan, Amritha Murali, Dr Ganesh, Shankari Krishnan, Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam, Mambalam Sisters, R. Suryaprakash, Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna, Sreevalsan J Menon, Mahanadhi Shobana, Saketharaman, Srividya Ramanath and others.
Upcoming Vocalists
Upcoming vocalists include Sampagodu Vighnaraja, Bharathi Ramasubban, Aishwarya Shrinivasan (great grand daughter of M.S.Subbulakshmi) S. R. Mytreyi, Govind Balasubramanyam (Grandson of Flute B. Shankar Rao ), Jayam Venkateshwaran ( disciple of Bombay Sisters and Lalitha Sivakumar ), Nandhitha Gurunath, Vidya Kalyanaraman, D V Suresh Rao, Sriranjani Santhanagopalan, Sruthi Ravali (daughter of Manda Sudharani), R. Raghavendra, S.Naveen, Vishnudev Namboothiri, V R Dileep Kumar, Vaikam Jayachandran, Vinay Sharva, Chong Chiu Sen - Sai Madhan Mohan Kumar (Disciple of D.K. Pattammal) and others.
Instrumentalists
Past Instrumentalists
T. Chowdiah, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, M.S.Gopalakrishnan Nagercoil S Harihara Iyer among others, excelled in violin, while Palghat Mani Iyer, Nagercoil S Ganesa Iyer, Palani Subramaniam Pillai, C.S. Murugabhupathy, Palghat R. Raghu varanasi ghantaiah sastryvaranasi brahmaiaiah sastryvaranasi gopalam sastry and Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair redefined the role of mridangam in concerts in the recent past. Sharaba Shastry, Palladam Sanjeeva Rao, T.K.Radhakrishnan, T. R. Mahalingam, Dindigul S.P. Natarajan, T. Viswanathan and Thyagarajan were famous flute players. Some of the well known veena players include Veena Dhanammal, Karaikkudi Brothers, Doraiswamy Iyengar, Emani Sankara Sastry, Veena Chitti Babu, S. Balachander and K. S. Narayanaswamy .
Past-Present Instrumentalists
S.Seshagiri Rao (Violinist), L. Subramaniam, L. Shankar, T.N.Krishnan, M. Chandrasekaran, Nagai Muralidharan A. Kanyakumari and Padma Shankar are among the living violinists who still perform. The mridangists who fall under this category includes Karaikudi R Mani, T S Nandakumar, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, Late Nagercoil S Ganesa Iyer, T. K. Murthy, Guruvayur Dorai, Mannargudi Easwaran, T. V. Gopalakrishnan, Srimushnam V. Raja Rao, I. Sivakumar and J. Vaidhyanathan. T. H. Vinayakram, T.H. Subash Chandran and N. Govindarajan are Ghatam players who are in this category.
N. Ramani, K S Gopalakrishnan, K. Bhaskaran, Sikkil Sisters,A V Prakash, Shashank Subramanyam, are the most well known flute players of today, while E. Gayathri, S. Balachander, Kalpakam Swaminathan, Bonala Sankara Prakash and Rugmini Gopalakrishnan are known in the same way for playing the Veena. Kadri Gopalnath is similarly known for his Carnatic talents on the saxophone, U. Srinivas for Mandolin, while N. Ravikiran is known in the same way for playing several stringed instruments, most notably the Chitraveena/Gottuvadhyam.
Current Instrumentalists
Violinists of today include Padma Shankar , Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan, Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, H.K. Venkatram, Mysore Manjunath, Mysore Nagaraj, Nagai Muralidharan, Ganesh and Kumaresh, Vittal Ramamurthy, Avaneeswaram S R Vinu, R. K. Shriramkumar, Nagai Sriram, L.Athira Krishna, Mysore Srikanth, A. Kanyakumari, Charumathi Raghuraman, Akkarai Subbalaksmi, Murari Vadakkencheri, Balabaskar.
Mridangists of today include Thanjavur K. Murugaboopathi, Neyveli Skandasubramanian, Trivandrum Balaji, Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan, D.S.R. Murthy, K. Arun Prakash, Patri Satishkumar, Papanasam R. Kumar, Trichur Narendran, Anand Subramaninan, Neyveli Narayanan, Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam, Changanassery Harikumar, R Vydianathan, Erickavu N. Sunil, Nanchil A R Arul, Trivandrum V Surendran, H. S. Sudhindra, Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma, B. C. Manjunath, Tumkur B. Ravishankar, Bangalore R. Ramanath.
Ghatam specialists include Vikku Vinayakram, S. Karthik, V. Suresh, V. Selvaganesh, Sukanya Ramgopal, Uduppi Sridhar, Giridhar Udupa, G. Chandrashekara Sharma, Vaikom Gopalakrishnan and Thripunithura Radhakrishnan.
Khanjira specialists include N. Amrit N, K.V. Gopalakrishnan, V. Selvaganesh, B. Shree Sundar Kumar, N. Ganeshkumar, K. S. Rangachari, K. V. R. S. Mani, C. P. Vyasa Vittala, C. S. Venkatramanan, Alathur T. Rajaganesh, B. S. Purushotham, Guru Raghavendra, Latha Ramachar, Nerkunam S. Sankar, Neyveli B. Venkatesh, Papanasam S. Sethuraman, Thenkasi H. Paramasivam, Thiruvayur Saikrishnan, Thrikakkara Y. N. Shantharam, Tirupur G. Sridhar Kumar, Trichy V. V. S. Manian
Flute players of today include Dr. N. Ramani, Mala Chandhrashekhar, Shashank Subramaniam, K. Bhaskaran, Kudamaloor Janardanan, R. Thiagarajan and K. S. Gopalakrishnan.
Veena players of today include E. Gayathri, Bonala Sankara Prakash ,Rajhesh Vaidhya, D. Balakrishna, Jayanthi Kumaresh, Ayyagari Syamasundaram and Nirmala Rajasekar.
U Rajesh, U P Raju and his wife Nagamani and SM Subhani are notable musicians who play the mandolin.
See also
Notes
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References
- Vaasanthi. ‘God's own season’. In Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
