ROSHNI

A Star Studded Multilingual Light Music Program

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Male Vocalists

Madhu is a playback singer of repute in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada movies. He has won many awards / prizes in school and college competitions. Madhu has sung nearly 650 songs, so far, in albums (light, devotional & old re-mix) and Tele Serials. He has also sung nearly 55 songs in films including dubbed films in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi. He has performed in nearly 1200 concert tours in India and abroad along with almost all the leading Playback Singers -- such as Smt. Chitra, Smt. L.R. Easwari, Smt. S. Janaki and Smt. P. Susheela, from the South Indian Film Industry. He has the distinction of performing at the Symphony Hall (First Asian to perform) in Birmingham, UK, in five languages with famous female playback singer Smt. S. Janaki. Madhu also has won several distinguished awards, both in India and abroad.

Ranjini Vijay acquired her initial interest in music from her mother, Mrs. Lakshmi Vijay, at the very early age of 4. At the age of 7, she came under the tutelage of Sri. T.G Badrinarayanan, who was one of the first students of the late Sri. D.K. Jayaraman. Ranjini’s debut concert was at the age of 13. Through her school years she has won nearly 90 prizes and has performed for the All India Radio 4 times. In the film world, she has sung with P.B. Srinivas, given performances with local light music troupes on stage and auditioned with A.R. Rehman. She participated and won awards in the All-India-Youth program vocal competition organized in Delhi. Currently, Ranjini is doing her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

VK—(Vijaykumar)  Started formal carnatic vocal training from his aunt Smt. Bharati in Madras for 4 years since 1983 continued under the guidance of gottu vaadhya vidhwan Late. Shri. Kittappa in Madras for about a year in 1987. He was a part of a light music group AALAAPANAA formed by his brother Rajan in Madras (in 1992), for about 2 years, and performed in tamil light music shows (including computer sequenced music using MIDI – Musical Instruments Digital Interface). He is an active member and co-founder of PALLAVI music group in the SF Bay Area, started back in 1995 – performing in over 25 multi-lingual (tamil, hindi, telugu and kannada) light music shows throughout the Bay Area, for all types of organizations (charitable and otherwise). He has performed occasionally in semi-classical, classical and devotional programs as a keyboard accompaniment. He plays keyboards, sings and whistles; Composes and sequences music and maintains a website, providing notes and chords for famous Indian movie songs (for FREE) at http://my.123india.com/keyless

Dhritiman Dasgupta ( Bass Guitar ) has been playing the rhythm/lead guitar for rock bands, ever since school/college days in India. He has had formal training in tabla as well and has performed at various levels including the AIR. He has played for various bands in the Bay Area including shruthi/Dhun/raaga/kannada koota.

Natraj Gujran ( Rhythm & Lead Guitar) has been playing Rhythm & Lead since college days for several bands and he is a part of a new Hindi band called 'Dhun' and also ‘Raaga' - a Kannada band. Even professionally, he is immersed in Music. He is a software engineer at a Digital Music ASP called Rioport.

Hari Nikesh. As good as it Gets!. Hari lives and breathes Drums. He began his Music career in 1983 and has travelled all around the world ( Malaysia, Singapore, Ceylon, U.A.E., Australia, Japan, the whole of Europe, South Africa and USA) with Play-back singers like, Mr.T.M.S.,Mr.S.P.Balasubramaniam Mr.Udit Narayan, Mr.Jayachandran, Mr.Malayasia Vasudevan, Mr.Mano, Mr.P.B.Sreenivas, Mr.A.V.Ramanan and Uma Ramanan, Smt.P.Suseela, Smt.S.Janaki, Smt.M.S.Rajeswari, Smt.Vani Jayaram, Smt. L.R.Easwari, Smt.Anuradha Padwale and Miss.Kavitha Padwale and Smt.Anuradha Sriram. He started his Film Music Carrier in 1991 and has played for Music Directors such as, Mr.M.S.Vishwanathan, Mastero IIlayaraja, Mr.Raj-Koti, Mr.Keeravaani, Mr.Sirpi and Mr.Ramani Bharadwaj.

Ravi Gutala is originally from Hyderabad, India and has been initiated at a very early age into Tabla by Shri P.Anjaiah, a senior staff artiste at AIR, Hyderabad, India. Currently he resides in San Jose, California and is studying Tabla under Maestro Swapan Chaudhuri at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, CA. He also has been teaching Tabla to a number of aspiring students in the Bay Area. Ravi has won numerous awards and is a recipient of All India National Talent Search Scholarship. He had been a regular performer at AIR, Hyderabad, India during 1982-1986. He has accompanied many noted artistes such as, Pt.Jasraj, Smt.Lakshmi Shankar, Pt.Sachdev, Dr.Rajeev Taranath, Dr.L.Subramaniam, Pt.Madhav Gudi, Ustad Shujaat Khan, Shri Tejendra Mazumdar, Shri Sanjeev Abhayankar, Ms Shweta Jhaveri etc. He has 3 CD recordings and many cassette recordings to his credit. Ravi designs semiconductor chips for a living.

Anjan Srinivas has played Tabla/Congo for several school functions, inter-school competitions and he has also played for Doordarshan, Lucknow as a child artist. He plays the congo drums and octapad for various bands in the Bay Area like Raaga and Dhun.

Ramanath Ramdas is a disciple of Vidhwan K.N.Krishnamurthy for over 16 years. He plays the carnatic percussion instruments Mridhangam, Ghatam & Kanjira, and has been performing in concerts for a decade, both in India & the USA. He has accompanied senior artists (including AIR artists) in carnatic classical recitals, dance programs, harikatha & bhajan concerts. Artists he has performed with include Padmashree Shri Yesudas.

Atul Vaidya, during his 28 years of technical profession, Atul’s first love has remained music. He has done professional quality sound-mixing and audio management for a variety of events and artists such as-- Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Pandit Jasraj, Pandit Hariprasaad Chaurasia, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Zakir Hussain, amongst others. Atul has extensive experience in turn-key technical event management, audio-video recording, special effects, and background music for plays and sound management for small house concerts.
 

Krishna Sivaramapuram is a singer with a special interest in Audio Engineering. He is a co-founder of the famous light music group in the Bay Area, ‘Pallavi” and he also started a full fledged light music group in Oregon State University. He has gained extensive experience in the audio engineering part of each show. He has even completed audio engineering work for accomplished fusion music composers in the Bay Area and has an audio recording and mixing studio at home.