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Kadri Gopalnath
12+ albums
saxophonecarnaticindian classicalIndianindia
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Dr. Kadri Gopalnath (11 December 1949 – 11 October 2019) was an Indian saxophonist and one of the pioneers of Carnatic music on the saxophone. Kadri Gopalnath was born in 1949 in Mangalore to Thaniappa and Gangamma. He acquired a taste for music from his father Thaniappa, a nadaswaram vidwan. As a child, Gopalnath once saw the saxophone being played in the Mysore Palace band set. Upon hearing the vibrant tone of the saxophone, Gopalnath decided to master it. It took him nearly 20 years to conquer the complex western wind instrument, and he was eventually crowned as the "Saxophone Chakravarthy". Gopalnath had to make certain modifications to the conventional alto saxophone to play Carnatic music. So successful was this adaptation that the great musician Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, the doyen of Carnatic music, acknowledged Kadri Gopalnath as a true Carnatic music genius. Gopalnath learned to play the instrument under Gopalkrishna Iyer of Kalaniketana, Mangalore. In Madras, Gopalnath came in contact with the mridangist T.V. Gopalkrishnan, who identified the youngster's potential and tutored him. His maiden performance was for the Chembai Memorial Trust. The 1980 Bombay Jazz Festival was a turning point for Gopalnath. John Handy, a jazz musician from California was present at the festival. Hearing Gopalnath play, Handy asked if he could go on stage and perform alongside him. So well did the two mesh, Handy in the jazz style and Gopalnath in the Carnatic style, that it became
top songs
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Shakthi Sahitha Ganapathi (Saxophone) (Raga: Sankarabharanam; Tala: Adi (Tisra))
1,1752Sababathikku Abhogi Rupakam Gopalakrishna Bharathi - Kadri Go
1,0113Vinutasanam
8734Endaro Mahanubhavulu
7675Biranavara (Saxophone) (Raga: Kalyani; Tala: Tisra Adi)
4546Endaro Mahanubhavulu - Sri - Adi
4117Yaen Pallikondirayya (Saxophone)
4008Napali Srirama
3939Sowkkiyama
34110Saranu Siddhi Vinayaka
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