SNEHA RAMESH
Quirks & Queries SHREYA DEVNATH
Take us through your initial learning years of music
I grew up listening to my mother sing at home , and was instinctively drawn to the music . So when I was about 7 or 8 , she took me to her Guru Vid . Bombay Ramachandran , under whom I learnt vocal Carnatic music for about 3 years . Soon after , I developed problems with my vocal cords , and couldn ’ t continue singing . That actually made me quite miserable , so my mother decided to put me in an instrument , and her mentor Vid . Sulochana Pattabhiraman advised that we go to Vid . Lalgudi Jayaraman , saying she would put in a word . The absolute legend that he was , Lalgudi Sir kept me on probation to begin with , where he ’ d monitor my initial learning under one of his students , once every three months . After about a year of evaluating me , he agreed to teach me himself , and there ’ s been no looking back ever since .
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