List out couples who both are performing artists-CM

balusatya · Post by **balusatya** » 28 Sep 2008, 14:14

Let the forum help me in collating the data for a proposed project of mine.OK if one is a performing artist and other is teaching.Also relevant if in a family-father-son- daughter, grandchild-brothers are performing.
For my better understanding please specify the nature-vocal,Instrument etc.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 28 Sep 2008, 17:10

few are here..

1. D.K.Pattammaal - D.K.Jayaraman - sister - brother
2. D.K.Pattamaal - Lalitha sivakumar - MIL - SIL
3. D.K.Pattamaal - Nityashree - Grand mom - Grand daughter
4. D.K.Pattamaal - sivakumar - mother - son (apply all above combinations!!!!)
5. lalgudi jayaraman - GJR Krishnan - Vijayalakshmi - Sankari Krishnan (father, son, daughter - violin, daughter in law - vocal)
6. Ravikiran - gottuvadhyam; carnatica brothers sashikiran - ganesh - brother, cousin
7. ganesh - kumaresh - violin - brothers
8. bombay sisters - vocal - sisters
9. maharajapuram vishwanatha iyer - santhanam - srinivasan/ramachandran - grand dad, son, grand sons
10. malladi brothers - vocal
11. vijay siva - manoj siva - poorna siva - (vocal, mrudangam, violin - brother, brother, sister)
12. J.Vaidhyanathan - mridangam (son of DKJ, husband of poorna siva)
13. Tanjore sivanandam, sarada sivanandam - veena - husband - wife
14. trichur ramanchandran, charumati ramachandran, subhashini ramachandran - husband, wife, daughter
15. T.M.Krishna, sangeetha sivakumar - husband, wife
16. K.V.Narayanaswamy - padma narayanaswamy - anuradha suresh krishnamurthy - husband, wife, dauthgter
17. T.N.Krishnan, viji krishnan, sriram krishnan - father, daughter, son
19. M.S.Subbulakshmi, radha vishwanathan, vijaya rajendran - mother, daughters
20. Madurai mani iyer - T.S.Vembu Iyer - T.V.Shankara narayanan - vocal - uncle / brother in law / nephew
21. T.Brinda, T.Mukta - sisters - vocal; Dhanammal - veena - grand mother

There will be many more, i will add if i think of.. I am sure others will help you...

-hari

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 28 Sep 2008, 18:23

Priya Sisters, Hyderabad Brothers, Mambalam Sisters, Sikkil Sisters, Kasaravalli Sisters, N.Ramani/R.Thiagarajan, Alattur Brothers, B.V.Raman/B.V.Lakshmanan, Radha/Jayalaksmi, Ranjani/Gayatri, Mysore Brothers (violin), R.K.Srikantha/Ramanath, Brinda/Mukta, Hyderabad Sisters.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 28 Sep 2008, 18:29

Lakshman Sir - Alathur brothers are not real brothers - as far as i know - they learnt under same guru

http://www.carnaticcorner.com/articles/ ... others.htm

Mambalam sisters - Their father is S.K.Rangachari - kanjira vidwan, and their sister Dr.Hemalatha is violinist..

-hari

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 28 Sep 2008, 19:31

Sikkil Sisters - Mala Chandrasekhar (mother-daughter)
Sikkil Sisters - Sikkil Gurucharan (grandmother-granndson)
Mala Chandrasekhar - Sikkil Gurucharan - (aunt-nephew)
Radha Viswanathan - Mala Chandrasekhar - (MIL-DIL)
Sulamangalam Sisters
Charumati Ramachandran - Trichur V Ramachandran - Subhashri Ramachandran (wife-husband-daughter)
Flute Mali - Ramani - (uncle-nephew)
T.N. Krishnan - N. Rajam - (siblings)
Lakshmi Shankar - L. Subramaniam (OK not fully CM -

) - (MIL-SIL)
Lakshmi Visvanathan - Charumati Ramachandran (bharatanATyam CM combo) - (sisters)
TNS - TNS Krishna - (father-son)
Siva brothers - J Vaidyanathan - (Brothers-in-law)

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 28 Sep 2008, 19:46

Palghat Mani iyer - palghat raja mani (father - son)
Palghat mani iyer - lalitha sivakumar (father - daughter)

Parur sundaram iyer - M.S.Anantharaman - M.S.Gopalakrishnan - dad & sons - violin
M.S.Anantharaman - M.A.Sundaresan

N.Ramani - R.Thyagarajan - Atul kumar - flute - grand father - son - grand son

Palghat Raghu - Abhishek Raghuram - - mridangam / vocal - grand father - grand son

Lalgudi Rajalakshmi - Lalgudi Jayaraman - Lalgudi Srimati Brahmanandam violin - sister, brother, sister

Abhishek Raghuram - Lalgudi Rajalakshmi - vocal/violin - Grandson - grand mother

Jayanthi Kumaresh - Lalgudi Rajalakshmi - veena/violin - daughter - mother

Kumaresh - Jayanthi - husband - wife (violin / veena)

Ganesh - Kumaresh - violin - brothers

How is N.Ramani & Mali related?

venkatr · Post by **venkatr** » 28 Sep 2008, 19:48

Good to see that Sankari Krishnan is from the LGJ family. I thought GJRK's wife was Lalitha Krishnan the reviewer in Hindu. Sri N Ramani is a disciple of TRM. Is he also related to him ?

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 28 Sep 2008, 19:51

I think, i got name wrong - Lalitha krishnan is GJR's wife and LGJ's d-i-l. Sankari krishnan is just student of LGJ. Sorry for goof up..

-hari

balusatya · Post by **balusatya** » 28 Sep 2008, 22:26

Thank you all for the spontaneous response.
I can now supplement
Srimushnam RajaRao-his wife-Padma chandilyan?-Mridangam-Vocal.
Meera Sivaramakrishnan-Radha Narayanan-Daughter-Mother-Violinists.
Mangalam Sankar- Kalpagam Swaminathan-Dil_Mil-Vocal-Veena
Neyveli santanagopalan and her daughter-sri ranjani.

Sriram Parasuram-Anuradha.Violin/Vocal.
Binny Krishnakumar-Trivandrum Krishnakumar.Sarada Kalyanasundaram(Mother of Krishnakumar)
Lakshmi Krishnasamy-Vocal-(Dis.ofSri.TNS@Madurai)W/o M.A.Krishnasamy.(Parur)-Violin.
A.S.Ranganathan-Hemamalini-Mridangam-Violin.
Jayaraj-Jayashree Jayaraj-Both Veena.
Sai Narasimhan-(forget her name)-Flute/Vocal.
Bhaskar-Dr.Radha Bhasker-Mridangam/Vocal.
A.S.Murali???(Dis.ofPSN).
Udipi Gopalakrishnan???
continue.....
Sankari Subramaniam(started giving concert recently)-Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam-Vocal.
Dr.Subhashini Parthasarathy and her mother.Nirmala Sunderrajan.?.
OST family -Is it covered earlier?
Vasundara Rajagopal-Nisha Rajagopal.
Rama Ravi-Nandita Ravi.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 28 Sep 2008, 23:07

Anantalakshmi Sadagopan - Sujata Venkataraghavan - Sumitra Nitin - (Mother-daughter-grand-daughter)
GNB - Viswesvaran (dancer Smt. Chitra's husband) - (Uncle-Nephew)

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 28 Sep 2008, 23:50

Hari,

DKP and lalitha sivakumar are mil-dil..
DKP and I.Sivakumar(mrudangam) are mother n son.

balusatya,

chengalpet ranganathan mama - sai narasimman - prarthana sai narasimman [ father - son -dil ]

a.s.krishnan(morsing), a.s.ranganathan(mrudangam), a.s.murali(vocal), a.s.shankar(gatam) are brothers. shreesundarakumar(kanjira) is related to them.

some more....

madurai balasubramaniam (vocalist and disciple of Dr.MBK) - madurai b.sundar(mrudangam,disciple of uks sir) father - son

trivandrum n.hariharan(mrudangam, disciple of uks sir) - trivandrum padma krishnan(violinist, disciple of kanyakumari) = bro-sis

palghat sriram(vocal, music director, flute,keyboard, mrudangam, drums) - trivandrum baby sriram (vocal) = husband - wife

v.l.kumar - v.l.sudharsan (both violinists, their father too) = bros

thanjavur kumar(mrudangam) - shyamala venkateswaran (vocal) = bro-sis

parthasarathy (veena)- sriram parthasarathy (vocal0- ananthanarayanan (veena) = father - son -sil

melakaveri thyagarajan - melakaveri balaji = bros

v.m.ganesan(mrudangam) kalyani ganesan (veena) subha ganesan (vocal) = hus-wife-daughter...

nagaraja rao - n.guruprasad - gatam = father - son

c.k.shyamsundar - c.s.venkataramanan - kanjira -father - son

k.v.r.s.mani - k.v.gopalakrishnan - kanjira = father - son

delhi sairam(mrudangam) - chaithra(vocal) - couple

lot more to write...

last, but not least....

umayalpuram sir - erode nagaraj = guru - disciple

[also,sir treates me as a son only....

]

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 29 Sep 2008, 00:10

Wow, quite a network of family relations.

Ravi: Can you put in the relationships in your list?

Nagaraj: Good one on your 'relationship' to your guru..

Given this many, may be a shorter list would be the ones who do not have such family connections/networks

Sanjay is probably in such a stand-alone category so far.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 29 Sep 2008, 01:56

vasanthakokilam wrote:Sanjay is probably in such a stand-alone category so far.

And T. M. Krishna

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 29 Sep 2008, 01:59

Thanks Ravi for the updates to your list with relationships. I did not know about the Mali-Ramani relationship.

BTW, Sangeetha bolts Krishna out of the standalone list

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 29 Sep 2008, 02:03

s_hari wrote:

Lakshman Sir - Alathur brothers are not real brothers - as far as i know - they learnt under same guru

Yes. I knew that they were not related. Thanks.

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 29 Sep 2008, 02:39

Hyderabad brothers, Padmashri M S Gopalakrishnan and Smt M Narmada, M. Lalitha and M. Nandini, Trichur Brothers

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 29 Sep 2008, 04:50

Some more:
R. K Srikantan - R. K. Sriramkumar - (granduncle - nephew)
Malladi Suri Babu - Malladi Bros - (father - sons)
Lalgudi Jayaraman - Lalgudi Padmavati - Lalgudi Rajalakshmi - (siblings)
L. Subramaniam, L Shankar, L. Vaidyanathan - (siblings)
L brothers - Lalita and Nandini - (uncles and nieces)
Pallavi Gopala Iyer - Lalgudi Siblings - (father-children)

Radhakrishnan · Post by **Radhakrishnan** » 29 Sep 2008, 06:29

s_hari wrote:few are here..

5. lalgudi jayaraman - GJR Krishnan - Vijayalakshmi - Sankari Krishnan (father, son, daughter - violin, daughter in law - vocal)

-hari

GJR Krishnanâ€™s wife is Lalitha Krishnan.She too was a vocalist.Their daughter plays violin.There was a concert couple of years ago with LGJ,GJR and his daughter.
Sankari Krishnan is a disciple of LGJ

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 29 Sep 2008, 06:50

Wow! What a list!
R.K. Srikantan's son Ramakanth
V.V. Sadagopan's sister Jayalakshmi Santhanam, sister-in-law Rukmani Sundararajan; cousin's wife Anantalakshmi Sadagopan--and her nephew is Madurai Sundar!
Saralaya Sisters.
Radha Viswanthan's granddaughter Aishwarya sings with her grandmother now.
Sanjay is the great nephew of Rukmani Rajagopalan.

My son was asking me why in India we are fascinated about discussing relationships and resemblances? I had to tell him it has all got to do with music

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 29 Sep 2008, 07:00

"Judges son become a judge and pauper's son remain a pauper" is a a fact with some exception. In music the progeny must be carrying the genes of their parents and grand parents and so several musicians in the same family! Any truth to this statement with some exceptions?

thanjavooran · Post by **thanjavooran** » 29 Sep 2008, 07:23

Dwaram - mangathayaru
Madurai T. venkatesan T. srinivasan
B Rajam iyer, B. Krishnamoorthy

kmrasika · Post by **kmrasika** » 29 Sep 2008, 07:27

rAdhA & jayalakshmi are not sisters... they were cousins that met while learning under GNB and later TR bAlu.

Some others:

vEgavAhini vijayarAghavan & t brindA - daughter & mother- vocal
ranjani & nAgavalli nAgarAj - daughter and mother- vocal
subhikshA & lakshmi rengarAjan - daughter and mother- vocal
nishA & vasundharA rAjagOpAl - daughter and mother- vocal
subhAshiNi pArthasArathi & nirmalA sundararAjan - daughter & mother - vocal

sarAlaya sisters - kavitA & trivENi - sisters - vocal. trivENi is married to violin vidvAn bengalUru HK vEngkaTarAm

jayanti & vINA sahasbuddhE - mother & daughter - hindusthAni vocal

ramani & bengalUru S Shankar - son & father - vocal

triccUr brothers - ShrIkr.shNa & rAmkumAr - twin brothers - vocal - their father is mr.Danga vidvAn triccUr mOhan

n rAjam (sister of TN kr.shNan) - sangIta Shankar - mother & daughter - violin (kalA rAmnAth is also related to this family but not sure of the relationship)

bAlasarasvati("bAla") - lakshmi knight - aniruddha knight - grandmother - daughter- grandson - bhAratanATyam

kArakkuDi sAmbaShiva aiyyer - rAjEShvari padmanAbhan - ShrIvidyA candramauLi (grandfather - mother - daughter) - vINA

daNDamUDi rAmmOhan and sumati - husband and wife - mr.Dangam

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 29 Sep 2008, 07:47

Kala Ramnath, is the daughter of Shri .T.N.Krishnan's brother.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 29 Sep 2008, 08:11

Hey, we forgot our own - Manakkal Rangarajan - Prema Rangarajan, Manakkal Sriram -- husband, wife (both vocal), son - mridangam..

Is there anyone in a family who can give kutchery on their own? I think yes -- siva family... Vijay siva - vocal, Poorna siva - violin, manoj siva - mridangam...

Also - Mambalam sisters, vocal; hemalatha - violin, K.S.Rangachari - kanjira!!

We also forgot -- DKJ's daugher - sukanya... she is singing off and on - hope to see more of her in chennai season

We have M.Charasekhar's daughter, accompanying him on violin.

Was rukmani rajagopalan performing artist (Sanjay's aunt)

Papanasam sivan - rukmani ramani - papanasam ashok ramani (composer/singer - grand father ; mother singer ; grandson singer)

Subramanya bharati - composer/poet; rajkumar bharati - vocal

There are two illustrious family with multiple SK award... Maharajapuram & DK family!! Are there other families?

-hari

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 29 Sep 2008, 09:22

Dr. S.Ramanathan - vocal; Geetha Bennent - veena (father - daughter)

-hari

hindolam · Post by **hindolam** » 29 Sep 2008, 10:15

Thanjavur S Kalyanaraman, Bhushani Kalyanaraman,
KV Narayanaswamy, Padma Narayanaswamy, Anuradha Suresh Krishnamurthy
Radha Narayanan, Meera Sivaramakrishnan

hindolam · Post by **hindolam** » 29 Sep 2008, 10:16

Palghat Raghu, Ananthakrishnan, Anand, Abhishek Raghuram

rajumds · Post by **rajumds** » 29 Sep 2008, 15:33

Our own Jaysri & Jayaraj - Veena couple

knrh05 · Post by **knrh05** » 29 Sep 2008, 16:14

s_hari wrote:There are two illustrious family with multiple SK award... Maharajapuram & DK family!! Are there other families?

-hari

Ponniah Pillai, KP Sivanandam
Madurai Mani Iyer, TV Sankaranarayanan
T Brinda, Balasaraswathi, T Viswanathan

thanjavooran · Post by **thanjavooran** » 29 Sep 2008, 16:18

Alandur S. Natarajan violinist is the brother of Dr. S.R.
Kakkayee Nataraja sundaram pillai is the nephew of TNR

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 29 Sep 2008, 17:00

Alandur Natarajan's son, N. Sigamani is also a violinist (mainly for dance)

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 29 Sep 2008, 17:02

rajumds wrote:Our own Jaysri & Jayaraj - Veena couple

Another veena duet are the Iyer Brothers (Ramnath and Gopinath)

shadjam · Post by **shadjam** » 29 Sep 2008, 21:52

Shiek Chinna Moulana, Kasim and Babu (Grandfather and grandsons)
Our own forum members Ashwin and Rohin (aka Toronto brothers)
Nagai Muralidharan and Nagai Sriram (they are related but don't know how

)
Papanasam Sivan and Papanasam Ashok Ramani (grandfather and grandson), Rukmani (Daughter?)
Bharathiyar and Rajkumar Bharathi (not sure if Bharathiyar comes under the banner of carnatic musicians

)
Kumbakonam Rajappa Iyer and KR Ganesh (Father and son)
Sethalapathi Balasubramaniam and B.Ganapathiram (Father and son)
Melakaveri Thyagarajan and Melakaveri Balaji (Father and son)
Sikkil Sisters, Mala chandrasekhar and Gurucharan (various relationships :rolleyes:)
Pantula Rama and MSN Murthy (Wife and Husband)
Palghat Sriram and Baby Sriram (Husband and Wife; not sure if husband sings carnatic but wife used to in Asianet)
Pillu Rao and Thanjavur Subramainam (Father and son)
TNS and TNS Krishna (Father and son)
Thiruvarur Krishnamurthy and Thiruvarur Bhakthavathsalam (not sure of the relationship; may be just friends

)
TH Vinayakaram, TH Subashchandran and Selvaganesh (Brothers and son)
TV Gopalakrishnan and TV Vasan (Brothers)

(My first post in a long time

)

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 29 Sep 2008, 22:16

Nagai Muralidharan is Nagai Sriram's uncle I think-(dont know if cittappa or mama.

tkb · Post by **tkb** » 29 Sep 2008, 22:38

if permitted you can have Sathyanarayanan and Embar S. Kannan - nephew - uncle.

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 29 Sep 2008, 22:53

Akkarai sisters...

My what a list!-
CM seems to be a all family matter.

May be a list of non-family -stand alone would have been easier.

I am not related to anyone except Mali

balusatya · Post by **balusatya** » 29 Sep 2008, 23:32

V.V.Subramaniam-VVRavi-VVS Murari- Violin-Father- Brother-Son.
Prof .Jayasitalakshmi(HOD- Dr.Sankar Srinivas(PSN)-Mother_Son.
SKA-S.Rajam-Pramila Gurumurthy-FIL-DIL.
Tanjore S.Kalyanaraman-Bhushani- Vocal.Husband-wife.
Vedagiri- V.L.Kumar- violin-Father-son.
chittor Gopalakrishnan-Chittur Venkatesan-Violin-flute-father -Son.
( Venkatesan's children are also artists?)
Needamangalam Krishnamurthy Bhagavather-.......Alamelu-..grand daughter?
Karaikudi sambasivaIyer and his brother
Ramanathapuram Sankarasiva Bhagavathar(Guru-teacher)- C.S.Murugabhupathy-Mridangam

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 30 Sep 2008, 02:45

Don't know if T.N.Krishnan / N.Rajam (jugalbandi) was mentioned - brother/sister

Palghat Raghu and Abhishek Raghuram (grandfather-mrdanga / grandson - vocal)

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 30 Sep 2008, 03:00

May be a list of non-family -stand alone would have been easier.

I am not related to anyone except Mali

Hmmm.., intriguing.. Details?

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 30 Sep 2008, 04:02

vasanthakokilam wrote:
May be a list of non-family -stand alone would have been easier.

I am not related to anyone except Mali
Hmmm.., intriguing.. Details?

Actually, I should say my maternal grand father is related to Mali.
My Great grand mother had the good fortune of listening to Mali while he practiced as a child as they lived in the same big house. She passed on the knowledge to my mother and her sisters. She lived for 96 yrs and I remember her singing sItApatE all the time eventhough her memory failed in other aspects- maybe a mAli's favorite?

There is this standing joke among my cousins that none of us inherited the genius that Mali was but craziness yes (mostly aimed at me-

).
For now I am a stand alone dabbler

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 30 Sep 2008, 04:08

Hey! Dabbler of quality!

rajumds · Post by **rajumds** » 30 Sep 2008, 08:40

Anuradha Sriram and Sriram

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 30 Sep 2008, 09:20

Of course!
There are so many that we even forget the familiar ones!

annapoorne · Post by **annapoorne** » 30 Sep 2008, 09:49

S Rajam and S Balachander

S Rajam and Dr Premila Gurumoorthy

Sethalapathy Balasubramaniam - B Ganapathyraman - B Sivaraman

Suguna Varadachari - Bharathkumar

Palghat Mani Iyer - Rajaraman - Ramprasad

Lakshmi Rengarajan - Subiksha Rengarajan

Malladi Suribabu - Malladi Bros

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 30 Sep 2008, 11:30

Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, Dwaram Mangathayaru..

Alathoor Bros, Alathur Venkataraman (son of subbu iyer who sings concerts)
Papa Venkataramaiah, V Thyagarajan, V Nagarajan, KS Ramana, V Anirudh Athreya

Lalgudi, GJR and Vijayalakshmi

MS Anantharaman, MA Sundareswaran, MA Krishnaswami, MA Bhageerathi, MS Ananthakrishnan
MS Gopalakrishnan, M Narmada, MSG Suresh

Rama Ravi, Nandita Ravi

Srimushnam Raja Rao, R Raghavendran

T M Krishna & Sangeetha Sivakumar

Trichur Ramachandran, Charumathi Ramachandran, Subhashree Ramachandran

RK Venkatarama Sastri, RK Srikantan, RS Ramakanth, RK Shriram Kumar

Brinda, Muktha, Viswanathan, Vegavahini, Girish

Sulochana Pattabhiraman, P Vasanth Kumar

Karaikkudi Brothers, Karaikkudi Subramanian, Rajeswari Padmanabhan

...

balusatya · Post by **balusatya** » 30 Sep 2008, 20:36

Violin -Mridangam-Neela Ramgopal?-Ramgopal.?

annapoorne · Post by **annapoorne** » 30 Sep 2008, 20:51

Neela Jayakumar and Jayakumar

Ravikiran - Shashikiran - Kiranavali

Priya_s · Post by **Priya_s** » 30 Sep 2008, 21:11

UP Raju & Nagamani----mandolin
Iyer Sisters
Mandolin sisters

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 30 Sep 2008, 22:52

Tiruvarur N.Rajam, violinist,is the sister of Dr.N.Ramani.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 30 Sep 2008, 23:03

Punarvasu wrote:Tiruvarur N.Rajam, violinist,is the sister of Dr.N.Ramani.

Thiruvarur Smt. N Balam is the fiddle vidushi.

I am told Smt. N Balam and mrudangist Smt. N S Rajam are both sisters of Sri N Ramani.