Also known as TMK Name T. Krishna Origin Andhra Pradesh,India Role Vocalist · tmkrishna.com | Parents T.M.Rangachari Years active 1988–present Movies Margazhi Raagam | |
Occupation(s) Singer, Teacher, Lecturer, Author Spouse Sangeetha Sivakumar (m. 1997) Children Anantha Krishna, Arya Krishna | ||
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T.M. Krishna (Thodur Madabusi Krishna, born in 1976) is a Carnatic music vocalist. He was exposed to the south Indian classical music at an early age. His first concert was at the Spirit of Youth series organized by the Music Academy, Chennai (India). T.M. Krishna was born in Chennai on January 22, 1976. His father was a businessman in the automobile industry and his mother has founded several educational institutions, most recently a school for tribal children (Vidyavanam) which caters to over 300 children.
Contents
- Adbhutha audio jukebox vocal carnatic t m krishna
- T M Krishna in Concert
- Early life
- A Southern Music 2013
- Voices Within 2007
- Professor P Sambamoorthy 1999
- Articles
- Initiatives
- References
Krishna's mother learnt from Krishna's guru (teacher) B. Seetharama Sharma who on noticing Krishna's interest in music, started teaching him when he was six years old. Krishna had his schooling in The School KFI, an institution founded and run by the Krishnamurti Foundation which influenced his perceptions and outlook towards life, a fact mentioned by him in various interviews. He received his B.A. degree in economics from Vivekananda College, affiliated college of the University of Madras. Married to Sangeetha Sivakumar, who is also a Carnatic musician, on November 7, 1997, he has two daughters by name Arya and Anantha, and lives in Mylapore.
On July 27, 2016, he was honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
T M Krishna in Concert
Early life
Krishna's mother was a carnatic music graduate, and his father T.M. Rangachari had an ear for carnatic classical music. His grand uncle T.T. Krishnamachari (former Indian finance minister and an industrialist) was one of the founding members of the Madras Music Academy.
After tutelage under Bhagavathula Seetharama Sharma, Krishna underwent special Ragam Thanam Pallavi grooming under Chingleput Ranganathan. He also received advanced training from the late Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer for more than seven years.
A Southern Music (2013)
In 2013, he authored a book 'A Southern Music – The Karnatik Story' and it was released by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Chairman of Kalakshetra, Gopalkrishna Gandhi. It discusses the philosophy, aesthetics, sociology and history of Carnatic music. The book was published by Harper Collins.
Voices Within (2007)
Bombay Jayashri, T.M. Krishna and Mythili Chandrasekhar published the first-ever coffee table book on Carnatic Music in January 2007. The book is a labor of love and pays tributes to seven Carnatic music maestros. The first copy of the book was received by the former President of India, Abdul Kalam at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. This book was later translated in Tamil and published by Ananda VIkatan Publications in the year 2011.
Professor P. Sambamoorthy (1999)
Commemorative volume containing brief life sketch and several unpublished and some speeches delivered at various conferences brought out on the occasion of the birth centenary of P. Sambamoorthy, a musicologist, teacher, researcher.
Articles
On Society, Culture, Politics and Religion
On Music, its Practice, Musicians, History and Future
Initiatives
Chennai Poromboke Paadal
The Chennai Poromboke Paadal music video was released on January 14, 2017 on YouTube. An initiative by T.M.Krishna and environmental activist Nityanand Jayaraman - the Tamil song was written by Kaber Vasuki and composed by R. K. Shriramkumar, and the video was directed by Rathindran Prasad. The video featured Krishna performing in and around the Ennore creek and highlighted the environmental damage done to the creek by the power plant in that region. The music video trended on YouTube India for a week after its release becoming the first Carnatic song to trend on YouTube. The song's title contained the word "Poromboke" which formerly meant land of the commons but has become a popular swear word. The music video also garnered attention for combining Tamil slang dialect with carnatic music. The song is a raga-malika and is based on the ragas Anandabhairavi, Begada, Hamir Kalyani, Devagandhari, Salaga Bhairavi and Sindhu Bhairavi.