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Artist
Kunnakkudi Vaidyanathan
12+ albums
about
He was born to Sri Ramaswamy Sastri and Smt. Meenakshi at Kunnakudi, a temple town of Lord Murugan in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on March 2, 1935. His father was an erudite scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil besides being a great composer and exponent of Carnatic Music and Kathakalakshepam (a method of story telling). Known for the dexterity and subtlety in handling the violin, he catered not only to the music scholar but also to the layman. His play reflected his own different moods and the demands of his audience with whom he established and enjoyed a good rapport. He dwelled with ease and competence in the high as well as the low octaves. He stopped accompanying vocal artistes in 1976 to concentrate more on solo concerts. He was famous for his fingering techniques on the violin. His interest in new attempts and innovations led him to work with veteran thavil vidwan Valayapatti Subramanian. They performed over 3,000 shows together which were also very successful. Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan had deep faith in the therapeutic merits of music. Vaidyanathan passed away at 8.45pm on September 8, 2008 at a hospital in Chennai User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
