Ramakrishnan Murthy is a

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vocalist from

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. He regularly performs in the annual

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besides being featured in music festivals world over that focus on Indian Classical music. He is an A-grade artist of the

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and

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, Chennai.

Early life and tutelage

Ramakrishnan Murthy began his Carnatic music training from Smt. Padma Kutty in Irvine in 1997. In 2001, he began to take advanced lessons from veteran violin artist

Delhi P. Sunder Rajan Delhi P. Sunder Rajan is a violinist- vocalist of India performing South Indian Classical music ( Carnatic music) . He is known for his improvisations and style of playing. References External links Sunder Rajan Official Website. Concert ...

. Ramakrishnan also spent brief periods of time learning from Vairamangalam Lakshmi Narayanan, CR Vaidyanathan, Vaikom Jayachandran and Chengleput Ranganathan.G. Swaminathan
"Artists are highly sensitive"
'' The Hindu'' Chennai, 28 August 2014. He is currently under the tutelage of

R. K. Shriramkumar R. K. Shriramkumar (born 4 October 1966) is a virtuoso violinist and accompanist of the Carnatic Music (South Indian classical music). He hails from the Rudrapatna family of musicians from Karnataka. He is the grandson of the violinist R. K. Ven ...

Education

Ramakrishnan Murthy is an Informatics graduate from the

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Concert career

In June 2011, after completing his undergraduate education, Ramakrishnan moved to Chennai permanently and began pursuing Carnatic music full time. He has, since, performed regularly in Indian and international music festivals and famous ''sabhas'', including the

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and has been accompanied by virtually all the notable names in the field of music today. Ramakrishnan has also done playback singing for films, debuting with the song "Nalla Nanban" under composer

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for Shankar's 2012 film ''

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''.

Style and influences

His wise sense of aesthetics, his alignment to pitch(''shruthi shuddham''), enunciation of words, the clarity of his '' gamakas'' and his ''patanthara'' are often appreciated by critics. Some critics have noted a coarseness in his voice, but this texture of his voice is also seen to lend a husky texture to certain ragas like Sahana. The influence of

Ramnad Krishnan Ramnad Krishnan (14 September 1918 – 29 January 1973) was a vocalist in the Carnatic tradition. Krishnan did his schooling in Ramnad in Madras Presidency. His elder brother Prof. V Lakshminarayana took him to C. S. Sankarasivam to get him sta ...

Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Semmangudi Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer (25 July 1908 – 31 October 2003) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist. He was the youngest recipient of the Sangeetha Kalanidhi awarded by the Music Academy in 1947, a distinction he holds to this day ...

, and

K. V. Narayanaswamy Palghat Kollengode Viswanathan Narayanaswamy (15 November 1923 – 1 April 2002), often referred to as K. V. Narayanaswamy was an Indian musician, widely considered to be among the finest Carnatic music vocalists of the 20th century. He was award ...

has been observed in his music.

Awards and titles

* Yagnaraman Award of Excellence, Shri Krishna Gana Sabha, 2016 * Kalki Krishnamurthy Memorial Award,

Kalki Krishnamurthy , birth_name = Ramasamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy , birth_date = , birth_place = Puthamangalam, near Manalmedu , death_date = , death_place = Chennai, India , occupation = journalist, critic and writer , nationality = Indian , education = H ...

Trust, Chennai, 2014 * Shanmukha Sangeetha Shironmani title from Shanmukhananda Fine Arts and Sangeetha Sabha, Mumbai, 2013. * Outstanding Vocalist for four consecutive years from the Madras Music Academy, 2011-2014 * Best Senior Vocalist, Madras Music Academy, 2016 * Asthana Vidvan,

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, 2017 * Senior Outstanding Concert Award, Madras Music Academy, 2017 * Senior Outstanding Vocalist, Madras Music Academy, 2019 * Isai Peroli title from Kartik Fine Arts, Chennai

References

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