CHENNAI: Artist Manohar Devadoss,84, turned to Carnatic music when he lost his eyesight six years ago. Prabhu, 27, an alumnus of Kalakshetra, started teaching Devadoss Carnatic music and, in return, ...

Sathya Devi (29), a researcher who settled down in the city five years ago, used to travel 10 km in peak traffic twice a week to learn the veena. Twenty-year-old M. Chidananda, a biotechnology ...

MCLEAN, VA — A 16-year-old student from McLean has raised more than $16,000 by teaching traditional Carnatic vocal music and singing at local farmers markets to help residents in rural villages in ...

Carnatic guitar hero Prasanna teaches the technique he has honed over years to students from around the world. He says over a Skype call from Seychelles, “The most beautiful thing is, their mothers ...

Getting RK Shriramkumar to talk about his creative feats is like pulling teeth. With a bashful grin, the Carnatic violinist protests that it is nothing really. The credit roll of those to whom he ...

When you’re a pint-sized musical prodigy, perhaps starting with the mridangam at the age of four is not the greatest of ideas. Too small to hold the instrument then, BC Manjunath thus began his music ...

Waves of excitement envelope Nishagandhi auditorium in Thiruvananthapuram a little before Agam’s concert begins. Agam’s lead singer and frontman Harish Sivaramakrishan beams as he hears the applause ...

CHENNAI:Prakash Hariharan started playing mandolin by chance. In the music industry, he is fondly called ‘Mandolin’ Prakash. Growing up in a south Indian household, it was mandatory for Prakash to ...