Sunday, February 3, 2008

PALAKKAD SREERAM
A complete musician

An aquarian born on 16th February 1972 to Smt. Jayalaksmi and Sri. K. S. Lakshmi Narayanan in a village, Kavassery near Alathur, Palakkad district in Kerala.

Started learning music under his mother from very young age and also under Sri. Sundareswara bhagavathar, and he had an immense passion on Musical Instruments. His enthusiasm over instruments made him to practice en-number of instruments for hours and hours with an extra care on its intensive gamakas which paved new paths of finger techniques of his own style and he is rather to be called as a perfectionist. As a professional musician, Sreeram is known more as a vocalist ( Play back singer) as well as a flautist and a keyboard artiste. In his own music projects he himself play a number of instruments in the studio.

As many others, he had also acquired a post graduation in Music from Calicut University and moved to Madras for his musical journey. Married to Baby, a vocalist, composer and have two children, Bharath , a child prodigy now nine years old and a daughter, Anagha is now five. Sreeram now own a multi faceted highly modern equipped recording studio “Swararnavam” .


MORE ABOUT THIS MUSICIAN ………..……………………………..


As a singer in the film field

He entered as a flautist in the industry, played flute for many films, for many music albums under many music directors from 1996. His ever first voice recording was done by Music Director Keeravani for the film Annamayya in Telugu. After that, A. R. Rahman the music director of young generations used sreeram’s enchanting voice for his films such as Padayappa, Uyire, Tajmahal, En swasakkattre and he also brilliantly used Sreeram’s multi talents for his film re- recordings and another non filmi album “Vanaseimae”.

Sreeram has given more enthralling songs under the Music Director Harris Jayraj, in his films such as Sami, Arasakshi, Arul, Kovil, Anyan of them the most popular is “Thirunaveli alwada” song in Sami film. His most tough song was under the ever great Ilayaraja, the song “Ulakame nee manithanai” in the film Ivan. Worked under Deva, S.A.Rajkumar, VidyaSagar, Mani Sarma, Devi Sriprasad, A.R.Rehana and sang many songs for other young music directors of next generations such as Yuvan Shankar Raja, Karthik Raja, Sreekanth Deva, G. V. Prakash etc.

As a music Director

He has done music direction for two Malayalam films, “Mazhamegha Pravukal” and “Melvilasam Seriyanu”. Both the films include many beautiful songs and all great playback singers such as Jesudas, Janaki, K.S.Chithra, Sujatha, Jayachandran, Hariharan, Anuradha Sriram, Unnikrishnan has sung in his films.
THRU MUSIC ALBUMS

He has got many music albums to his credit. Re-mix works “Irandayirathil oruvan” and “Galatta Remix” were done for H M V audios of MGR songs. In both the albums Sreeram has sung maximum number of songs. “Yanai Mukhavane” is a devotional music album released by Magna sound in which all the songs were written by his wife Dr.Babysreeram and sung by Sreeram. His audio company, Swararnavam has released devotional albums- “Padipporul” an Ayyappan devotional, “Mathrupranamam”.

14 comments:

Unknown said...

nice blog!!!

Unknown said...

Dear Mr.Sriram,

I have recently seen your performance at Nishagandhi auditorium, Tvm, during the onam festival.
Your performance was Excellant.
Your team also Superb.
Really it was a wonderful day.
Really it was a good Onam treat for all of us.
God bless you, Keep it up.

I would like to know more about your music.

Pls tell me your famous hits/CD's so that I can buy it.
Kindly reply to manojrs70@gmail.com

Thanks

Best Wishes

Happy Onam

Sreemanoj.R
7.9.14

Unknown said...

Hi Mr Sriram ,

Recently I have seen your stage performance with veivekanandan. Its awsome. Your voice and flute are fantastic.
Your voice , its wonderful, its really touched my heart.

Best wishes...

ALEX MALAYIL said...

I watched Doordahrshan Devaragam and heard you present Santha sangeetha gaana rasika,an awesome rendering.

I would ardently like to have this to my collections, kindly share.

Best Wishes for your Musical Journey.

palakkadsreeram said...

Thanks ji!

palakkadsreeram said...

Thanks!

palakkadsreeram said...

Thanks!

palakkadsreeram said...

Thanks!

palakkadsreeram said...

Thanks!

palakkadsreeram said...

Thanks ji!

sjr said...

Love your Thirupachi song.

Unknown said...

Dear Sir,

I seen one of your flute lecture in YouTube. It was mind blowing. As I am inspired from you me also started to learn flute...

Blue Green Media said...

Hi sir
i am your crazy fan.... I like thirunelveli halwa"song.. . Like ur voice... ....

" mine mind " said...

Dear Sree eatta..I am your mom's friend Madona teachers (GGHSS alathur) son ..
We wish to see you while you come to palakkad.