Celebrating the legacy of Padmashri U.Shrinivas U. Srinivas was a virtuoso Indian mandolin maestro, prodigy, trailblazer and composer belonging to the classical Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India. He pioneered the introduction of the mandolin, a western instrument, into classical Carnatic music. Recognized worldwide as a colossus and the rarest of musical geniuses, he is regarded as the Mozart of classical Indian music. "George Harrison's favourite piece of Indian music was Mandolin Ecstasy, an album recorded by a child prodigy from Madras called U Srinivas at the age of 13. It was, like, my dad's favourite album of all time,"…
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