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Sunday 11 August 2013

Kadayanallur Venkataraman

It was Subbulakshmi’s good fortune to have had the right persons walking into her life at the right time—Sadasivam, Radha, Semmangudi, Musiri, Dilip Kumar Roy.  The last of the musicians to make a dynamic contribution to her music had a long innings of composing many of the best-known MS songs.

Born in 1929, Kadayanallur Venkataraman studied at the Swati Tirunal Music College, Thiruvanantapuram, and worked as a concert tambura player in his early years. A job with AIR Madras made for closer association with Semmangudi, whose disciple and accompanist Kadayanallur became. Though his extreme reticence kept him out of the music circuit, one aspect of his talent fortunately came to be recognised without any effort on his part. Read more

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