Tuesday, August 20, 2013
UPPALAPU SRINIVAS, (born February
28, 1969) is an Indian mandolin player of the Carnatic musical
tradition of Southern India. Shrinivas plays an electric mandolin and
has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael
Brook. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1998 and the Sangeet
Natak Akademi Award in 2010.
Shrinivas was born February 28, 1969, in Palakol in Andhra
Pradesh. At the age of six he picked up his father Satyanarayana's
mandolin. Upon realising the talent of his son, his father started teaching
him. Soon, Satyanarayana's guru,Rudraraju Subbaraju, realized the
potential of U. Shrinivas and started teaching him. Since Rudraraju Subbaraju
did not know how to play the mandolin he would just sing and U. Shrinivas would
play it on the mandolin. His brother U. Rajesh is also an accomplished mandolin
player.
U. Shrinivas made his first public Carnatic concert performance in
1978 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, during the Thyagaraja Aradhana festival.
Soon, he came to perform in the Madras Music Season in 1981 for
the Indian Fine Arts Society. In 1983, he performed at the JazzFest
Berlin where the audience requested him to do a repeat performance.
He continued touring the world—Australia, Southeast Asia and then
Southwest Asia, followed by the United States and Canada.
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