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Born on the 17th of May 1977 at Palakol,
Andhra Pradesh, Rajesh is the last child of Shri U.Satyanarayana
and Smt. Kantham and Brother of Mandolin Maestro Shri U.Shrinivas.
Tutored under the guidance of his father and brother, Rajesh
started playing Carnatic Classical Music on Mandolin at the
young age of 6 and gave his first concert at Kanchi Kamakoti
Peetam in the presence of His Holiness Shri Chandrasekarendra
Saraswathi Swamigal. Since then he has been performing extensively
in India and Abroad both alone and along with his brother.
He has also performed along with great artists like Ustad
Zakir Hussain, Vikku Vinayakaram etc.; He has traveled far
and wide in his musical journey and has performed in all major
cities around the world. The most unforgettable among all
his concerts is the performance in the prestigious International
Mandolin Festival held at Rudolstadt, Germany organised by
Folk and Tanz festival.
He is an avid listener of various forms of Music across the
world. This exposure has always motivated him to nurture dreams
of blending music forms of different origin and creating a
whole new form of Music. Thus there is identification of Carnatic
Music in Beethoven’s Symphony, Thumri in Jazz Music,
Indian Folk in the American Country Music and Folk Music in
the Rock and the Pop versions. This form of Musical Amalgamation
may not be a novelty as far as Mandolin Rajesh is concerned
since few musicians have already popularised this form of
Music. The novelties lies in following their footsteps and
unleashing an all new and fresh variety of Fusion Music that
is comprehensible to one and all, from the lay man to the
most intelligent music lover.
His ultimate dream lies in binding the world by a common musical
language that will cross the barriers of generation by being
a bridge that gaps the older and the newer generations; a
music that surpasses boundaries of age, time, sex, caste,
creed, economy etc. According to him, the purpose of his music
is not to produce a ready-made audience with “well-informed”
tastes; it is decidedly not the object to produce a market
for specific goods; it is to produce a musical climate both
open-minded and critical, to produce musical skills and crafts,
and to encourage human beings to be humane.
Music being a special form of thought can express nothing
but itself. He takes great pleasure in being one of the messiahs
of Fusion Music in the lines of Shri Yehudi Menuhin, Pandit
Ravishankar L.Subramaniam, L.Shankar etc., and his team comprises
of musicians who are legends in their own right and highly
worthy of fulfilling his dream.
Mandolin U.Rajesh
12 A, Venkateswara Street,
Dhanalakshmi Colony,
Vadapazhani,
Chennai - 600 026.
Phone: 23623672
Email: urajesh@mandolinrajesh.com
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