Maanikkam Yogeswaran is a

Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lankan Tamils ( or ), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, live in significant numbers in the Eastern ...

musician and exponent of

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. He was born 1959 in Meesalai, Sri Lanka, where he attended Jaffna Hindu College before moving to London. He currently lives in Berlin and is co-artistic director of the Global Music Academy. As a classical singer of

, he trained under S. Balasingam and P. Muthukumaraswamy Sarma. His guru was T. V. Gopalakrishnan He has contributed to film scores and dance and theatre companies in and outside the United Kingdom and performed with European classical orchestras. He performed at BBC Proms, the Royal Albert Hall with the

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, the

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, Glastonbury, Arts and ideas Festival, Spitalfields, Womad and with

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for the Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee. Besides being a member of the London-based band ''The Shout'', he has performed with the German world music band ''Dissidenten''. As part of the AIUME educational project, he has brought Indian music to new audiences. The 2008 world conference of ISME in Bologna familiarized educators from different cultures with his approach. He has sung on the soundtrack to

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's film ''

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'' in a piece composed by

, thus becoming the first Tamil singer whose work has been featured in a Hollywood movie. He was featured throughout the Spike Lee's film ''

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'', ''Sarah Gavron’s film''

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and has recorded the Tamil

Thirukkural The ''Tirukkuṟaḷ'' ( ta, திருக்குறள், lit=sacred verses), or shortly the ''Kural'' ( ta, குறள்), is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. The text ...

in 133 different

raga A ''raga'' or ''raag'' (; also ''raaga'' or ''ragam''; ) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode. The ''rāga'' is a unique and central feature of the classical Indian music tradition, and as a ...

s. Yogeswaran dedicated his 2005 album Peace for Paradise to human rights, peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka.

References

The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music
p. 70. .

External links

Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yogeswaran, Manickam 1959 births Alumni of Jaffna Hindu College Living people Singers from Berlin Sri Lankan Tamil musicians