He's fantastic,"[20] raved the legendary Don Cherry at the time. Some of the awards that Mandolin U. Srinivas received: He recorded a CD of Carnatic compositions by Ilaiyaraaja called Ilaiyaraaja's Classics in Mandolin. File photo of Carnatic musician Uppalapu 'Mandolin' Srinivas. Shrinivas married Sree, a veena player, on November 19, 1994, and the couple had a son. He died at 9.30AM on 19 September 2014, due to liver failure at Apollo Hospital, Chennai. Nigam tweeted, "The great mandolin exponent U Shrinivas is no more unfortunately. Paying rich tributes to Srinivas, she said Srinivas won people's hearts with his renditions. He plays an electric five-string mandolin, he's fantastic...." [14], Over his career, he toured across the world, and collaborated with John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook. The Supreme Court has approved renowned Mandolin player U Srinivas` divorce with his wife U Sree on the ground that he was treated cruelly by her. "Regard being had to the status of the husband, the social strata to which the parties belong and further taking note of the orders of this court on earlier occasions, we think it appropriate to fix the permanent alimony at Rs 50 lakh which shall be deposited before the family court judge within a Srinivas' first mandolin belonged to his father, a clarinetist. [10] Since Rudraraju Subbaraju did not know how to play the mandolin, he would just sing pieces from the Carnatic classical repertoire, and U. Srinivas, all of six, would play them on the mandolin, thus developing a phenomenal style of playing entirely his own, and astonishingly, on an instrument that had never been played in the rigorous and difficult Carnatic style before. [23][24][17] Srinivas toured extensively across the world, in his own right, as a prodigy and leading star from the classical Indian music firmament, receiving thunderous applause and appreciation wherever he performed - he played in Australia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and extensively and frequently across the United States and Canada. "Emotionally shaken to hear of Carnatic shining star Mandolin Shrinivasji's demise.. May God bless him with happiness in the next world," Rahman said. Find latest and upcoming tech gadgets online on Tech2 Gadgets. Mandolin U Srinivas was a child prodigy with a rare combination of knowledge and innovation. That instrument was a 'standard' Western mandolin; however, he made modifications to suit his playing style over the course of his musical career. Oscar-winning technician, Resul Pookutty, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan and many others condoled his death on social networking platforms. It passed the order on Sree`s plea challenging the Madras High Court order which had upheld a family court’s decision to grant the decree of divorce to Srinivas. Uppalapu Srinivas (28 February 1969 – 19 September 2014) was an Indian mandolin player in Carnatic classical music and composer. [11] He performed with Western artists such as John McLaughlin, Michael Brook, Trey Gunn, Nigel Kennedy, Nana Vasconcelos, and Michael Nyman, as well as with Hindustani music artists such as Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain, besides Carnatic artists like Vikku Vinayakram and V. Thus, Srinivas stands as a trailblazer and pioneer, who introduced and adapted an unlikely western instrument, the mandolin, at age six, and made it suitable for performing in the rigorous Carnatic style of music, in the same manner that the violin had been introduced into Carnatic classical music some two hundred years before. For the Sangeetha Music label, U. 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