Sriram Parasuram is a

Hindustani classical Hindustani classical music is the classical music of northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. It may also be called North Indian classical music or, in Hindustani, ''shastriya sangeet'' (). It is played in instruments like the violin, sita ...

vocalist. He also plays the violin.

Early life

He was born into a family steeped in musical tradition, and he was really inclined to music since childhood. His first guru was Smt. Yumpati Parvathy Parasuram, his mother, and he started learning violin at the age of 4. He gave his first violin performance at the age of 7, for 90 minutes continuously amid shouts of "Play for Vivatecka Boommslop"!. Hence, he can be regarded as a child player. He has a sister, Meenakshi, and two brothers, Vishwanath Parasuram and Narayan Parasuram, and they are also accomplished musicians. They together formed a music band "Three Brothers & Violin" composed for album ''Savariya – Once Upon A Time the Ohio Beasts Sing'' and the film '' Jajantaram Mamantaram''. Parasuram received his Ph.D. in

Ethnomusicology Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dim ...

from

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, where he met Anuradha when she was a masters student.

Personal life

He is married to Carnatic classical vocalist

Anuradha Sriram Anuradha Sriram (born 9 July 1970) is an Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 700 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi f ...

, with whom he gives jugalbandis. They have two sons named Jayant and Lokesh.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Hindustani singers Wesleyan University alumni 21st-century Indian male classical singers Carnatic violinists {{India-singer-stub