File photo of Carnatic musician Uppalapu 'Mandolin' Srinivas. Famous mandolin player and musician Uppalapu Srinivas, popularly known as Mandolin Srinivas, died in Chennai on Friday in a private ...

Mr Srinivas was the first to use the Mandolin in Carnatic music. New Delhi: Famous mandolin player and musician Uppalapu Srinivas, popularly known as Mandolin Srinivas, died in Chennai on September 19 ...

Traditionally, the mandolin is not an instrument that had a place on the Carnatic music stage, which was populated by stringed wonders like the veena, violin and tanpura. But when a six-year-old boy ...

U. Shrinivas was a trailblazer who not only adapted the mandolin for the Carnatic genre, he gradually criss-crossed all genres on this foreign instrument for his global audiences on world music ...

The romantic view of music is that it is divine, soul-stirring and above shallow commercialism. Wrong. In today’s Carnatic music world, lots of things that have nothing to do with music matter.

CHENNAI : Uppalappu Srinivas, who was known for playing rare ragas on mandolin at his concerts, never played a false note in his illustrious career. His death Friday morning at the young age of 45 ...

Popular carnatic musician Mandolin U Srinivas passed away at a private hospital in the city on Friday. CHENNAI: Popular Carnatic musician Mandolin U Srinivas passed away at a private hospital in the ...

Srinivas was always courteous, soft-spoken, unassuming. But whenever he wanted to prove a point, he would simply let his mandolin do the talking. He challenged them all, not verbally, but through his ...

After violin, guitar, harmonium and harmonica, the eight-stringed strumming instrument -- mandolin -- demands its due from its players in India. To celebrate its unique melody and legacy, it was ...

Mumbai: Legendary Carnatic musician Uppalapu Srinivas – better known as Mandolin Srinivas for his instrument – breathed his last at around 9.30 am in Chennai on Friday. He was 45. Srinivas was ...