 "Mandolin maestro U Srinivas passes away at 45")
Mandolin maestro U Srinivas on Friday passed away at a private hospital in Chennai. He was 45. Unconfirmed reports suggested that the musician had undergone liver transplant recently but developed complications which led to his death.
Uppalapu Srinivas was born in Palakol, Andhra Pradesh, on February 28, 1969, and later came to be known as Mandolin U Srinivas.
His first performance was at the age of six, and his first public performance in 1978 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, during the Thyagaraja Aradhana festival.
Shrinivas played with great Indian artists such as Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain. He played an electric mandolin and had collaborated with world renowned musicians like John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1998 at a very young age of 29. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2010.
Srinivas is survived by his parents, brother Mandolin U Rajesh and a sister.
Uppalapu Srinivas was born in Palakol, Andhra Pradesh, on February 28, 1969, and later came to be known as Mandolin U Srinivas.
His first performance was at the age of six, and his first public performance in 1978 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, during the Thyagaraja Aradhana festival.
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He came to perform in Chennai (then Madras) in the Madras Music Season in 1981 for the Indian Fine Arts Society. In 1983, he performed at the JazzFest, Berlin, where the audience requested him to do a repeat performance.
Shrinivas played with great Indian artists such as Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain. He played an electric mandolin and had collaborated with world renowned musicians like John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1998 at a very young age of 29. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2010.
Srinivas is survived by his parents, brother Mandolin U Rajesh and a sister.