T. V. Gopalakrishnan

T. V. Gopalakrishnan

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T. V. Gopalakrishnan Profile

  • Name:
  • T. V. Gopalakrishnan
  • Born:
  • June 11, 1932
  • Father:
  • Viswanatha Bhagavathar

T. V. Gopalakrishnan Biography

T. V. Gopalakrishnan is an Indian musician and vocalist from the southern state of Kerala. A doyen of Carnatic music, he has been honoured with Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1990 and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2012. Sangeetha Kalanidhi Award from Madras Music Academy in 2014, Kalaimamani award, Legend of India Life Achievement Award etc are some other musical honours received by him. He has been honoured with life time achievement award by many musical organizations. Apart from Carnatic vocals, he is expertized in Hindustani music and a few musical instruments like mrudangam and violin. He is also hailed as an innovator of Indian Jazz.

 

Expansion of his name is Tripunithura Viswanathan Gopalakrishnan. He hails from Tripunithura of Ernakulam district, Kerala. He was born on 11 June 1932. Currently he is based in Chennai, where he is fully engaged in Carnatic music circles. Mostly recently in 2018 he earned a doctorate degree from Bharatidasan University based on his research topic, "Layathwam in Carnatic music". Belonging to a family with two century old musical tradition, many of his family artists are musicians and vocalists. Gopalakrishnan too follows music as his tradition.

 

His father Viswanatha Bhagavathar, who was a court musician for the Cochin Royal Family, was his first guru. Even before the age of five, TVG was initiated to the great tradition and heritage by his family. His Uncle Narayanaswamy Iyer taught him Mridangam. Gopalakrishnan has toured across the world, and has collaborated with artists of other parts of the world to give fusion music.  Ravi Shankar, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, John Handy, Ustad Alla Rakha etc are some of the world class artists with whom he has performed on stage.

Published: January 17, 2019

Updated: January 17, 2019

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