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| 4.8.1929 - 27.2.2012 |
Born on 4 August 1929, Vellore Gopalachariar Ramabhadran was
a celebrated name in percussion, a master of the mridangam.
Ramabhadran was fortunate to have been initiated into
Carnatic music by his father, T.P. Gopalachariar, a konnakol artist and one of
the founders of the Vellore Sangeeta Sabha which had conferred the title
Sangeeta Ratnakara on Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar. Gopalachariar’s residence in
Vellore was frequented by stalwarts such as Tiger Varadachariar, Semmangudi
Srinivasa Iyer, Madurai Mani Iyer, GNB, M.S. Subbulakshmi and D.K. Pattammal,
and it was during one such visit that Ramabhadran had the privilege of
accompanying Tiger Varadachariar at an in-house concert.
Ramabhadran’s first stage performance was at the age of 14
when he accompanied the doyen Madurai Mani Iyer at the Jagannatha Bhaktha
Sabha, Egmore, in 1943. This marked the beginning of an illustrious career
spanning over six decades and as many generations. Ramabhadran’s gentle and
effortless way of playing the mridangam came to be known as the “sarvalaghu”
style.
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