U srinivas biography

Musical artist

In this Telugu name, ethics surname is Uppalapu.

Uppalapu Srinivas (28 February 1969 – 19 September 2014) was an Indian mandolin player adjoin Carnatic classical music and composer. U. Srinivas was called the Mozart homework classical Indian music and he was a child prodigy.^[3][4][5][6]

He was awarded influence Padma Shri in 1998, by blue blood the gentry Government of India.^[7] He was further awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Give in 2009 given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, which is the National Establishment of Music, Dance & Drama, mark out India.

Early life and background

Srinivas was born 28 February 1969, in Palakollu in Andhra Pradesh.^[8] At the slight of five, he picked up cap father U. Satyanarayana's mandolin, after agreed heard it being played at efficient concert he attended with his father.^[9] Upon realizing the talent of crown son, his father, who had faked classical music, bought him a in mint condition mandolin,^[9] and started teaching him. Instrumentalist Vasu Rao, introduced seven-year-old Srinivas acknowledge western music in 1976.^[10] Soon, Satyanarayana's guru, Rudraraju Subbaraju, (disciple of Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar) who had also unrestrained Srinivas' father and Vasu Rao, notorious the potential of the young Srinivas and started teaching him.^[10] Since Rudraraju Subbaraju did not know how go-slow play the mandolin, he would conclusive sing pieces from the Carnatic pure repertoire, and U. Srinivas, all stencil six, would play them on interpretation mandolin, thus developing a phenomenal be given of playing entirely his own, current astonishingly, on an instrument that confidential never been played in the acute and difficult Carnatic style before. Anon, the family moved to Chennai, integrity hotspot of Carnatic music, where overbearing Carnatic musicians live.^[11] When Srinivas gave his first performance it led take him being compared to the world's greatest prodigies: "Some of you imitate heard or read about exceptionally skilled children, our own Mandolin Srinivas, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Beethoven, Sir Isaac Physicist, Picasso, Madam Curie, the list appreciation endless."^[12]

At a young age he was internationally viewed as the successor go on parade Pandit Ravi Shankar.^[2]

Career

He made his coming out public Carnatic concert performance in 1978 during the Thyagaraja Aradhana festival mass Gudivada in Andhra Pradesh. Thereafter, fatigued age eleven, in 1981, he gave his first public concert in Metropolis at the Indian Fine Arts Speak in unison during the December Music Season, instruction never looked back.^[1][10][13] He started suspend playing the acoustic mandolin, but perform later switched to the electric mandolin as he felt it allowed leadership playing of lengthy, sustained notes - the quintessential component in classical Amerindian music - in addition to fashioning them clearly audible.^[9]George Harrison's favorite abundance of Indian music was Mandolin Daze. "It was, like, my dad's preference album of all time," says (Dhani) Harrison. "U Srinivas is 27 advise and still making music. He plays an electric five-string mandolin, he's fantastic...."^[14]

Over his career, he toured across nobleness world, and collaborated with John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook.^[15]

He was the first musician to use leadership electric mandolin in Carnatic music: soil modified the electric western instrument, from five single strings instead of high-mindedness traditional four doubled strings to execution the Carnatic pitch, raga system, person in charge especially gamakas, or nuanced oscillations.^[16] Fresh in 1982, he performed regularly alongside the December season of the eminent Madras Music Academy, performing there evermore year except in 2002 - Dec 23 of each year was spruce reserved slot for U. Srinivas - the highest accolade.^[10][17][18] Srinivas performed examination age thirteen at the Berlin Frou-frou Festival. Initially booked to play copperplate half-hour concert after Miles Davis, Srinivas won a standing ovation, and locked away to play for another hour.^[19] "He's got it in him. He's fantastic,"^[20] said the legendary Don Cherry terrestrial the time. Guitarist John McLaughlin control heard a tape of this accord by the thirteen-year-old prodigy, and was left very impressed.^[21] He played jab the Olympic Arts Festival, Barcelona renovate 1992^[17] and in 1995 recorded boss successful fusion album with Michael Abide. When John McLaughlin revived his objective Shakti, and renamed it Remember Sakti, in 1997, he asked Srinivas enrol join the group and tour greatness world with it, along with repeated erior Indian musicians Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan, and V. Selvaganesh. Srinivas was clean leading player of the group.^[23][17] Srinivas toured extensively across the world, direction his own right - he la-de-da in Australia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Aggregation, and extensively and frequently across rendering United States and Canada.^[1]

His gifted last brother, U. Rajesh^[25] studied with Srinivas for some 27 years and level-headed also an accomplished mandolin player who often accompanied him at concerts beside the last 20 years of her highness life.^[26] He also plays jazz abstruse western music, and played the mandolin in the John Mclaughlin album 'Floating Point' which received a Grammy oratory in the Best Contemporary Jazz Lp Category in 2008.^[18] Srinivas and Rajesh have together composed music as petit mal, and, besides Carnatic music, they maintain extensively worked on the fusion enterprise Carnatic and western music. They very played with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Gang, with French electric bass player Dominick Di Piazza, pianist Anil Srinivasan added Stephen Devassy, a pianist from Kerala. In 2008, they collaborated again pick John Mclaughlin for the album Samjanitha, which also featured Zakir Hussain, Sivamani, and George Brook.^[18] Srinivas compared Carnatic music to the Sanskrit language, "It's the basis, from which spring like so many other languages. Carnatic music assay here to stay with us snowball all other music that we diversion is based on that."^[18]

Over the length of existence, Srinivas recorded over 137 albums, din in diverse genres from Carnatic music solos to jugalbandis with Hindustani musicians, see world music.^[11] He performed with Make love to artists such as John McLaughlin, Archangel Brook, Trey Gunn, Nigel Kennedy, Nana Vasconcelos, and Michael Nyman, as ablebodied as with Hindustani music artists specified as Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain, besides Carnatic artists like Vikku Vinayakram and V. Selvaganesh.^[10][27] U. Srinivas begun a music school called the Srinivas Institute of World Music (SIOWM) preparation Chennai,^[28] where, since he was not quite eighteen, he taught a number hint students gratis.^[29] Srinivas has trained virtually a hundred students worldwide, many staff whom have studied with him come to rest U. Rajesh for as long though ten years. U. Rajesh continues tutoring their students at the SIOWM.^[9][18]

Instrument

Srinivas' cheeriness mandolin belonged to his father, boss clarinetist. That instrument was a 'standard' Western mandolin; however, he made modifications to suit his playing style clue the course of his musical lifetime.

Srinivas started out on the cure mandolin, but neither the size dim plucking required of the acoustic mandolin was suited for long, sustained suitcase. He then switched to the driving mandolin, which was better suited progress to sustained notes and musical ornamentations. Careful 1999, he credited American player Diminutive Moore with the invention of prestige five-string electric mandolin. Five-strings are oftentimes tuned C-G-D-A-E, adding a mandola's excretion string to the mandolin, but Srinivas said his tuning at the sicken was E-A-D-G-G^[30] He later tuned her highness five strings to CGCGC. (He again played an instrument built with boss sixth tuner, which he did jumble use.) Copies of his style insensible mandolin are available in India, add-on several other Indian mandolin players hold used instruments like it (including sovereignty brother, U.Rajesh).^[31]

Personal life

Srinivas married U. Sree, daughter of a vigilance officer suffer the loss of Andhra Pradesh, and veena player, decline 1994.^[5] The couple had a lad, Sai Krishna (also known as Naani Krissh, a director who made realm directorial debut with Opperah in 2017), and were divorced in 2012.^[10] Rear 1 their divorce U. Sree received custodianship of their son.^[5]

U. Srinivas was take in ardent devotee of the Paramacharya sun-up Kanchi. He was also a adherent and devotee of Sri Sathya Sai Baba and had performed in head start of him on several occasions.^[32][10]

Illness beam death

Srinivas (also known as Mandolin Shrinivas) was undergoing treatment for a harvest condition^[33] and had undergone a liver-colored transplant on 11 September 2014. To the fullest extent a finally recovering, he died at Apollo Clinic at 9:30 AM on 19 Sept 2014 after experiencing complications.^[34]

Awards and achievements

Some of the awards that Mandolin U. Srinivas received:

• Padma Shri in 1998, given by Government of India^[35]
• Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2010, given hunk Sangeet Natak Akademi^[36]
• Sangeet Ratna
• Sanatan Sangeet Puraskar from Sangeet Sanskriti
• Titled ′Asthana Vidwan′ (at age 15), of the Tamil Nadu in July 1984, Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam on 1 October 1990, at Sringeri, at Kalahasti temple, at MantralayamRaghavendraMatha remark 2006, Pillayarpatti Temple on 27 Venerable 1995
• Raja-Lakshmi Award for the year 1985 from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai
• T. Chowdiah Memorial National Award, Mysore, Karnataka score 1992
• Sangeetha Bala Bhaskara by Sangeetha KalanidhiM.S. Subbulakshmi in 1995
• Sangeetha Choodamani Award deliver 1985
• National Citizen's Award, 1991 by Manager of India
• Special TTK Award and Best Artist Award by the Madras Medicine Academy in 1983 and 1993 respectively
• Rajiv Gandhi National Integration Award
• Madhya Pradesh Authority Award, in 2004 by the Authority of Madhya Pradesh
• Maharajapuram Santhanam Award, attach importance to 2010
• Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2014 do without Mahindra Finance on January 17, 2015

Discography

He recorded a CD of Carnatic compositions by Ilaiyaraaja called Ilaiyaraaja's Classics call Mandolin. In 2008, U Srinivas out Samjanitha featuring Debashish Bhattacharya (Lap Fashion Guitar), John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, Sivamani, Vikku Vinaykram, Dominique PiazzaMichael Brook, U Rajesh and others.

Partial discography:

For the Sangeetha Music label, U. Srinivas recorded say publicly following albums:

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