If You Can Play Carnatic Music, You Can Play Anything | Akkarai Subhalakshmi | Music of India

#darbarfestival | Carnatic violin exponent Akkarai Subhalakshmi explains the power of South India’s classical music to help the improviser understand other forms of music.

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Akkarai Subhalakshmi is a leading Carnatic violinist. Her grandmother R Sornambal was an expert in harikatha (devotional musical storytelling), and she grew up in the music school founded by her father Akkarai S Swamynathan. She sought to replicate the styles of her Carnatic heroes - GN Balasubramaniam, MS Gopalakrishnan, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, TN Krishnan, and Lalgudi Jayaraman (who she describes as ‘God’). Today she performs solo as well as in acclaimed duets with either TM Krishna or her sister Akkarai S Sornalatha.

She speaks out bravely on issues of gender inequality in Carnatic classical: “As female musicians we lose out because of our gender. There are artistes I would love to play for (but) who, I know, would never have a female accompanist”. But she sees music as a uniting force: “Ultimately what binds us are the seven swaras of music. It is what makes music universal even when we cannot speak each other’s languages.”

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2014, at London’s Southbank Centre:
-Akkarai Subhalakshmi (violin)
-VV Ramanamurthy (mridangam)
-G Guruprasanna (kanjira)
-Kiruthika Nadarajah (tanpura)

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