On World Music Day, we spotlight five young artistes making a place for themselves at the intersection popular culture and heritage ...

Dr B Naga Madhuri is a distinguished ophthalmologist and an accomplished Carnatic vocalist, seamlessly balancing medicine and ...

For singer-songwriter Chai Lenin, music isn’t just melody—it’s memory, emotion, philosophy, and healing wrapped in rhythm.

The highly venerated Malayalam singer Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (popularly known as simply Yesudas), who completed 85 years ...

15-year-old Haasini Bhattiprolu, hailing from a Telugu family in San Diego, California, USA, gave her debut Carnatic music performance in Hyderabad The musician Narsimhulu (62), a native of Dappur in ...

Margazhi 2024, however, has been sensational and melodramatic, making more noise than silence ever since the announcement of the Music Academy’s award to the leading Carnatic musician ...

Better known as the Wakro Sisters, Ama and Dellang are Carnatic musicians, or, as they like to put it, students of Carnatic music, because they are still learning. The very first public performance of ...

The Sangita Kalanidhi is a coveted award given annually by The Music Academy, Chennai, to a Carnatic musician. By convention, the designated awardee presides over that year’s prestigious Music ...

Whether Carnatic music concerts should restrict themselves ... and the politico-religious types were piqued. Against this background, they all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much ...

The Madras Music Academy conferring its prestigious title “Sangita Kalanidhi” for 2024 has polarised both the senior artistes and the audiences like never before. The Academy, considered to be the ...

Music is sound that stirs the soul. But right now in Chennai there is a growing noise that Carnatic music and Chennai’s famous December Season is exclusive and shuts its gate to all classes and ...