Balamurali Krishna has been invited to give concerts in many countries, including the US, Canada, UK, Italy, France, Russia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Middle East and many more. He is also known for popularising the compositions of Sri Bhadrachala Ramadasu and Sri Annamacharya.īalamuralikrishna's concerts combine sophisticated vocal skills and rhythmic patterns of classical music with the popular demand for entertainment value. He also gave jugalbandi concerts with Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and Kishori Amonkar, among others. Up to the present time, he has given over 25,000 concerts worldwide. He also accompanied various musicians in violin and is also noted to give solo viola concerts.īalamuralikrishna started his career at the age of six. Not merely content with his fame as a Carnatic vocalist, very soon started playing the kanjira, mridangam, viola and violin.
BALAMURALI KRISHNA TAMIL NAVAGRAHA SONGS SERIES
The Janaka Raga Manjari was published in 1952 and recorded as Raagaanga Ravali in a nine-volume series by the Sangeeta Recording Company. By the age of fifteen he had mastered all the 72 melakartha ragas and had composed krithis in the same. This title has stuck ever since and Balamuralikrishna has been known so.īalamuralikrishna thus began his musical career at a very young age. Musunuri Suryanarayana Murty Bhagavatar, a distinguished Harikatha performer, saw the musical talent in the child and gave the prefix 'Bala' (child) to the young Muralikrishna.
At the age of eight, Balamuralikrishna gave his first full-fledged concert at a Thyagaraja Aradhana, Vijayawada. Under his guidance, the young Balamuralikrishna learned Carnatic music. Observing his penchant for music, his father put him under the tutelage of Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu, a direct descendant of the shishya parampara of Tyagaraja. His mother died when he was an infant and Balamuralikrishna was raised by his father. His father was a well known musician and could play the flute, violin and the veena and his mother was an excellent veena player. He was made Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2005īalamurali Krishna was born in Sankaraguptam, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh state. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour, for his contribution towards Indian Art. Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna (6 July 1930 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer and actor.
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