Aishwarya and Saundarya practised continuously for six months to get the raga inflections and the Sanskrit pronunciation right. Their recording comes with interludes commonly heard in studio-produced devotional music, and is aimed at a younger crowd, and perhaps the car stereo.Īishwarya and Saundarya live in Bengaluru. The family moved from Chennai to Bengaluru in 1999. V Shrinivasan, their father, worked for 17 years for the Swiss perfume company Givaudan, with a factory in Jigani, Bengaluru. It supplies perfumes to many industries and counts leading detergent brands among its clients. Shrinivasan quit in 2016 to manage his daughters’ career. He has a wealth of Subbulakshmi lore, and recalls how his mother Radha groomed the little Aishwarya, and first taught her the suprabhatam in 2010. The Shrinivasans’ home in a gated colony in Gottigere, on Bannerghatta Road, also houses a museum dedicated to Subbulakshmi. On display are the tanpuras she used for her milestone recordings and concerts. One of the unusual exhibits is a letter Mahatma Gandhi wrote to MS on September 28, 1944. He wrote: ‘Dear Subbulakshmi, Rajaji has told me everything about your good work in connection with the Kasturba memorial fund by using your musical gifts. Gandhi was going all out telling all of India to learn Hindi, and had run into opposition in Tamil Nadu. The Rajaji he refers to is C Rajagopalachari, a big name in the freedom movement from the south. Bengaluru has named a neighbourhood in his honour. Gandhi signed the thank-you letter to Subbulakshmi in Tamil to reassure her, and her legion of admirers in the south, that he was not against the southern languages.Īishwarya, now in her mid 20s, was just nine when Subbulakshmi passed away in 2004. Radha Viswanathan is the first daughter of Subbulakshmi’s husband T Sadasivam from an earlier marriage. She sang with Subbulakshmi at almost all her concerts and recordings. After Subbulakshmi’s passing, Radha continued to perform on stage. On YouTube, you can catch Radha singing many compositions made famous by MS, with a teen Aishwarya accompanying her. “We have had really busy schedules in spite of the pandemic,” says Aishwarya. Many of the sisters’ concerts have been virtual since mid-2020, and that has meant better audio quality and bigger audiences.
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