Traditional classical music from India by Uppalapu Srinivas (sadly passed away in 2014 at the age of 45).
Uppalapu Srinivas was born in 1969 in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. At the age of five, he picked up his father’s mandolin after hearing the mandolin play at a concert he attended with his father. When Srinivas later gave his first performance, he was compared to the world’s greatest child prodigies.
At the age of eleven, in 1981, he gave his first public concert in Chennai with the Indian Fine Arts Society during the December Music Season, and he never looked back. Srinivas was the first musician to use the electric mandolin in Carnatic music: he modified the electric western instrument by using five single strings instead of the traditional four double strings to match the Carnatic pitch, the raga system, and especially gamakas, or nuanced oscillations.
Srinivas performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival at the age of thirteen. Initially booked to play a half-hour concert after Miles Davis, Srinivas received a standing ovation and had to play for another hour.
CD. Mandolin ecstasy – U. Srinivas.
LABEL: Oriental (1986), code: CD-11. VIDEO
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