3 famous Indian Percussionist, you must know about

1. 3 famous Indian Percussionist, you must know about To begin this blog I would like to tell you about the instrument called Percussion. It is one of the oldest musical instrument after the human voice. This instrument creates a sound when it is struck by a beater including an attached or enclosed beaters or rattles which are either struck, scraped, rubbed by hand or the sound is generated by banging it against another similar instrument. Some of the common instruments that you might find in the percussion section of an orchestra are timpani, snare, drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangles and tambourine. There are two major categories namely pitched percussion instruments that produce a note with a pitch that is identifiable and the other one is an unpitched percussion instrument that produces sounds that do not include an identifiable pitch. When we talk about famous percussionist in the world several names will be included in that list. Many countries all over the world have given some very talented percussionist to the world. One such country is India. India has always been a land of cultural diversity. Also, it holds the roots of some very professional and talented percussionist. These artists have been famous nationwide and some of them have got global recognition. If you also love listening to someone who plays a percussion instrument then you can book percussionists to have a mind-blowing performance by them in your events. In this blog, I will mention some famous and extremely talented percussionist from India. Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma :- who plays an instrument called Mridangam. He is the son of Vidwan Anoor R Ramakrishna and Smt Sree Lakshmi. He started learning from Vidwan R A Rajagopal. Anoor Anantha Krishan Sharma holds a BA degree in music. He has given some amazing performances all over the globe. This blessed musician has won many awards for his phenomenal performances. Some the awards and titles that he got are, ‘Best Mridangam Artist’ in 1981 By Gayan Samaj, ‘Laya Kala Prathibhamani’ and Vidwan H Puttachar Memorial Award by Percussive Arts Center in the year 2000, ‘Best Mridangam Artist’ in 1996 by Madra Music Academy and many more. Arun Kumar, G. Guruprasanna are some of the artists trained by him. aka shivu is a very popular percussionist • Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam percussionist. After learning to play the instrument from his father he started to play with many other famous musicians. But later on, he started to play with Thiruvizha Jayashankar and Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan. He has played over three thousand concerts with these musicians. He has received a lot of appreciation and has received many awards like Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2009 by Madras Music Academy, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and he has also got the title of ‘Thavil Ulaga Sooriyan. is a Padma Shri musician and a • Late Shree E. M. Subramaniam music industry and is a very popular Indian Classical Carnatic classical has always been a very prominent name in the •

2. percussionist. He got his training from his father and has performed with many other famous percussionists as well. He has also worked with All India Radio for about forty years. India lost this gem on April 23, 2015. If you want to book precussionist visit starclinch they have a wide range of professional precussionist in their collection.