Sudha Ragunathan: Carnatic (South Indian) Vocal Recital

[shrirambhagavath]

brilliant

[SOMASUNDRAM100]

Sudha Amma, thanks for the great rendition.

[SMahadevanAcademy]

Pleasing Varaali raga composed on lord Muruga...

[bharath1957]

Majority of the Tamilians have faulty pronounciation when it comes to Telugu,Sanskrit and Kannada but unfortunately they are not corrected in the initial stages and they grow up to sing wrong notes and Tamil audience not knowing the chaste notes in other

languages continue to praise the Singer

[karunsai]

Good Evening Carnatic Musical Vocal Exponent, vidhushi sow.Sudha Ragunathan, you had sung the our great lyricist sri Papanasam Sivan's song "Kaa Vaa Vaa" with your beautiful voice and exuberent style. Sudha, my ever best wishes and my hearty congratulations to you, always. Sai Ram.

[musicmuse1122]

Ugh. Instead of saying "vaah vaah" she pronounces it "veh veh" terrible diction. Pity. It might have been pretty good.

[silvicurlytop]

hoe beautiful!! cool voice

[akaajiroes]

India invented Drum n Bass .. i love it

[MrAlphastyle]

I love this! Greeting from Holland!

[poorenglishjuggler]

the guy with the sitar is well chilled..

[Dzongka]

@poorenglishjuggler Well, yes he looks pretty relaxed. But that instrument is actually called a "tambura", and it's used for droning.

[poorenglishjuggler]

@Dzongka thanks for the knowledge

[sitarnut]

Divine singing- is this wonderful woman a goddess that has come to earth to heal us a with her voice?

[MrSunilM88]

Carnatic music is the most divine genre when it comes to music.

[pdykid]

taaLam: aadi

Composer: Paapanaasam Shivan

Language: Tamil

pallavi

kaa vaa vaa kandaa vaa vaa

ennai ka vaa vElavaa

(shhanmugaa vaa vaa)

pazhani malai urayum muruga vaa vaa

[pdykid]

anupallavi

dEvaadi dEvan maganE vaa - para

dEvi maDiyil amarum guhanE vaa - valli

deyvayAnE manavALa vaa -

sharavanabhava paramatha yaala

(shhanmuga vaa vaa)

[pdykid]

caraNam

aabataruLara aruL oli tarum pannai -

annalay eeyya vaa

paaba tiral tarum pabam-agala varum

pazhanivalar karuNai mazhaiyE vaa

tabatraya veyilara nizharal tarum

vandaruvE en kula guruvE vaa

shree padmanaabha marugaa vaa

sharavanabhava muttayyaa vaa

(kaa vaa vaa...)

[pdykid]

pazhani malai urayum muruga vaa vaa kaa vaa vaa kandaa vaa vaa ennai ka vaa vElavaa dEvaadi dEvan maganE vaa - para dEvi maDiyil amarum guhanE vaa - valli deyvayAnE manavALa vaa - sharavanabhava paramatha yaala (shhanmuga vaa vaa) caraNam aabataruLara aruL oli tarum pannai - annalay eeyya vaa paaba tiral tarum pabam-agala varum pazhanivalar karuNai mazhaiyE vaa tabatraya veyilara nizharal tarum vandaruvE en kula guruvE vaa shree padmanaabha marugaa vaa sharavanabhava muttayyaa vaa

[sutharnan]

Cool

[rajabhushanarao]

recent performance at SICA in hyderabad is outstanding.She is blessed with a melodious voice which takes the audience spellbound.

[SweetJaya1978]

This is soothing to my ears. I dont have to understand it. If you cant appreciate beautiful music, you may be better off with pop.

[malboro1979]

Damn she's good!!

[MJsocialstreet]

I don't understand this stuff.

[kikipailol]

@MJsocialstreet u dont have to understand it... i'm tamil, and shes singing in tamil, but i dont understand it!! just go with the flow, and enjoy the beauty of music.... : )

[SuperStagg1]

@MJsocialstreet nah its bullshit aye

[TheAishwarya14]

one of the most beautiful raagas on earth

[podian100]

@TheAishwarya14 The ragam is varaali. This rendering ist one of the best of Sudha Ragunathan.

[KaikiTsuki49]

@podian100

... Do you know if this performance was improvisational then? I heard most Indian Classical music is improvisational, based on a raga...

[ccdlate8]

I'm sorry, but the tambura player is absolutely cracking me up.

[marenahalli]

Very well sung but lip coordination is missing

Amar

[malboro1979]

@marenahalli

whatever dude, this woman is awesome!

[usair97]

Lip ainging

[teyteyify]

i cannot understand.........their voices are of high pitch

[iriasyrenee]

one of my favorites ♥

[riasunkissed27]

incredibly gorgeous voice! My aunt in new york city took Raga singing workshops, she explained the difficulty and level of musicianship required to train the voice to flow as beautifully as one as divine as Sudha! this music makes one fill with great emotion. ( i am not of East Indian origin, yet have a great infinity for the music and culture! ) Beautiful!!! One Divine Love ;-)

[inder19852000]

Listen also to Chitraji´s ´Alaipayuthe´. its also divine

[inkgirl726]

This is my favorite song. Thanks for uploading this.

BTW, I don't think we'll ever lose MSS, she was legendary.

[parryotter123]

think MS Amma is the only one who can mesmerize us with her music.....she is the only cabable person of carrying forward the tradition of Bhava in music....i personally dont prefer sudha as she shows off too much...(no offense)....she is good but not great...

[rajadial]

I agree with your comment except that showing off or not is not the matter. Sudha is unable to draw us into her music while MS Amma did put  her soul in the singing which really tugged at our heart strings and we were able to immediately connect to the music whether we knew carnatic music or not. Great MS Amma!!!!

[parryotter123]

Since I no her personally, I made the comment that she shows off too much...her quality of music is becoming very minimal/average nowdays...as she is more into the commercial side of it...

[Bushrraff]

So what, you indecent idiot? OK, you are GREAT. Get the hell out of here.

[Psyche1954]

Sudha is a such an apt name for this singer and now that WE unfortunately have lost the great MSS she is the only one to carry forward the tradition of bahava in music!It is nectar like 'Sudha varsha' The achievement of sadhana ( riaz) shows

[muralikrishnann]

very soulful rendering

[lacieam]

It takes you to a state of complete peace...she's wonderful.

[smpeddada]

I like her voice

[saintantigen]

try listaning to this song on the london under ground early in the moring on mondays... i felt god droped in to my ipod and took me to uni

[krleza1]

@saintantigen how can download this piece of art???? 

[popinjay3000]

@saintantigen bet you were on your way to soas!

[potrebitel3]

@saintantigen > Is that one more proof that God is an iPod fan? :-)

[hindustanimusiclover]

Very beautiful music. I love her voice.

[BelligerentPacifist]

I feel many many pacific islands' sounds in there, especially in the first 1.5 minutes and whenever she takes the taan. Even the drums sound a bit Maori. Could somebody explain why? I thought the Carnatic was the most isolated region in all of the subcontinent, with overseas contact limited to trade with the Arabs.

This music keeps haunting your mind long after it has finished playing. Its like dead ancestors calling out from the beyond.

[Psyche1954]

I am afraid you got the wrong end of the stick! both carnatik and hindustani paddhati have the SAME discipline and Raga structure but the carnatic style is MORE irgidly structured with fixed alankaras and narrow grammar where as there are elements of Jazz like room for improvisations in hidustani Vocals!

Same ragas can have different names in the two styles and the Vilambit/Drut structure is peculiar to hindustani style,Carnatic is in madhya laya!! I welcome corrections and further enlightening

[MrPontiusPilate]

racist prick

[AtemiRaven]

I don't know what it is about Indian music, but it is very transonic and sucks you in quite well, and I love the way the language sounds too.

[09muscle09]

perfect....

[Biggietatt]

This is wonderful and I would like to learn to speak and sing it.

[rvish000]

superb......splendid.... love Sudha Ragunathan.

[sonali92]

Brilliant

[pedro7762]

This is a singing lesson.

This is ART...

[remahariharan]

I am sorry, but that note seems to have come from someone else who got on to my computer! Will certainly logout from now on?

I never will boo an artist, leave alone my favorite artist like Sudha. I love this song in particular and my daughter loves it too! I can't imagine how someone could do that.

Apologies, for having given room to this comment!

[subramanianvb]

Thanks Rema. It was really big of you to offer the clarification. Best wishes.

[kandaasa]

Great free style rendering. The training the artist got from her guru in singing Purandara Daasa Ugabogha has paid off here. Very good composition by Tamil Purandara Daasar,

Sri Papanaasam Sivan

[dbadagna]

When you say "free style," do you mean the first minute and 47 seconds? Because after that it seems that the melody is fixed, because the violin is playing exactly what she sings.

[adspage100]

Awesome!

[P0K3RFACE2010]

this is beautiful music

[kurts1978]

est ce vraiment neccessaire de comprendre les paroles pour etre profondement touché??!!

[kapwatt]

If you were bright, you would have researched it instead of posing you question to a stranger. In your own interest, I shall not answer you, stop being lazy and look it up. Put it on your college apps. Apply for the Mihir A. Gandhi scholarship and learn how to spell 'sardar' correctly.

[sundar1952]

What language is this? u idiot?

[sundar1952]

This question is to kapwatt.

[kapwatt]

If you were bright, you would have researched it instead of posing you question to a stranger. In your own interest, I shall not answer you, stop being lazy and look it up. Put it on your college apps. Apply for the Mihir A. Gandhi scholarship and learn how to spell 'sardar' correctly.

[mExloKo13]

inglish speakers are not the only people in the world you know?

[P0K3RFACE2010]

thank you, i hate people who are closed minded to any culture they might not understand

[Naisarue]

Wonderful!! I love India!

[pakhrat1]

Sudha very good I dont under stand the bool but you singing is the best thanks .

[krithiga]

DK Pattamal's rendition, anyone?

[artsyjc]

incredible i am learning about indian style music for one of my classes and this is really helping me understand it. I love the tala of this song wa wa.

[vahinith95]

one of gold voice and fantastick

[maslacak3]

tnx

[maslacak3]

why is he holding the violin like that?

anyway,is that classical violin?

what are the names of the other instruments?

p.s.the way she sings is fascinating:)

[blackdemonllama]

The way he is holding his violin is how most Indian violinists choose to hold theirs. The violin is just the same as a western violin, but tuned and played differently. The horizontal drum is a mridangam, the clay pot drum is a ghatam, the tall upright instrument is a tambura, the mouth harp is a morsing.

[blackdemonllama]

Hope my comment above answers your questions maslacak3, sorry, meant to post as a reply to your comment.

[Rigpa7]

India's rich culture...love the music.

[kanbandu]

A great Karnataka Sangeeta composition by Sri Papanasam Sivan following the original format of Sri Purandara Daasa that starts with Ugaabooga(often breaks the monotonous over used allaapanes). Sudhaavar has done an excellent rendering of this beautiful composition. She is one among the best artists similar to Sri VidhyaBhushana that diligently use both Alaapanes and Ugaabogas to make a concert highly enjoyable. Her twin-CD on Sri Purandara Daasa Krithis is the best example and worth buying.

[swerveon]

wow!

[worlddominator62]

Hey zoe, I'm glad your taking an interest in carnatic music, but I feel I must tell you that Sudha Ragunathan is considered to be one of the best female singer that is still alive,

... yes she is very good.

[spidergem1]

thank you for your reply :)

[spidergem1]

hello to Sudha Ragunathan i hope she is well :)

[spidergem1]

namaste i am impressed by your music especualy carnatic

i am a fan of indian music

i often think of india when i hear indian music

you are a exelent musician :)

from zoe

[knataka]

Good Karnataka Music.

[worlddominator62]

you should probably change the first "a" in kakka, to a "u"

[UpcomingJedi]

At 1:40-1:55, what is that style of vocalization?? Very unique. How is it done?

[JasmineStefani20]

she's so beautiful

[vishalbhise]

she sung very beautifull. thanks for this video. i felt like my sole joined to the esteemed & piecefull sole of lord murga.

[rob20061906]

I know where I have seen Sudha before...was watching the video and thinking - Ive seen her before. She was in a Hindi movie and combined carnatic singing with pop Indian. Can't remember the title of the movie but the movie was great to watch. I love Sudha's singing. Thanks for posting the vid.

[danz520]

can sumone translate wat the woman is singing about tq

[chandru80in]

She is singing about one of the Hindu deities - Lord Muruga. The essense of the song if requesting the lord to protect self.

[xwt00]

tuba64--i think coinprotest has valid pts. it's more than just a symbol on the currency.....there should be separation of religion and state......why should the govt use india's currency to promote any religion.....that is not correct!it's just minority appreasement.....proves how pseudo-secular this govt really is....i think coinprotest has a valid pt.

[xwt00]

sudha raghunathan is a very good singer. thanks for his. I enjoy listening to both Hindustani and Carnatic music. tks for this video.

[tuba64]

But on the music: i really like this. I was not used to it either, but listening to it several times made it each time more beautiful and interesting.

[tuba64]

I mean, dear Coinprotest: what do you care about what picture or sign is on the money as long as it is the currency you can pay with and buy and sell? Is it that important? Do you feel oppressed by some sign? Come on... Try to see it is all in fact so very trivial. Don't get mad about it. Promotion of some christianity is only for the people who want to receive that. Let them be. Let yourself be.

[tuba64]

Please people: make no problem about religion. Or else: just don't feel offended by whatever religion. Don't make from religion competition (?coin petition?). Anyway, just do not seek for war. Enjoy life. Try to make the best of your life.

[pnkannan]

Fantasic piece from sudha! Pl upload more of her clips.Thanks

[jackiebrinig]

She tries but her voice is so bad. guy plays very bad. So it's not very good performance.

[saransang]

Thank you very much ! really a good collection !

[kallammackel]

nonsense comment!!

[coinprotest]

Hello friend! The comment has been misconstrued by you. India is a SECULAR country and the use of ANY religious symbols on the NATIONAL CURRENCY for promotion of religion is UNCONSTITUTIONAL (NOT SECULAR)! KEEP INDIA SECULAR! Jai Hind!

[ramaraosuresh]

Hard to believe that she was groomed by M.L.V. She is not half as good!

[sukanyaganesan]

video gets stuck up and doesnot play continuously

[srisairamesh]

can someone give me the lyrics and meaning of the virutham before the krithi?

[simha00]

nice...

[Reshabh]

Excellent ! thanks for sharing.

[drpadhu]

Good rendering of music

[lilitude58]

A good appearance gives,spreads good energy.The spectators also get to see a good looking and well dressed artist.good presentation by Sudha as usual!!

[PichuPeran]

perfection in rendering. That is her inimitable style.God Bless her.

[danz520]

hey guys just listen to the music not her apperance..if ur looking for the persons apperance then no point watching this video coz she is not promoting her appearance but her music..

[thyagp]

she has established her identity but she cant reach MS level as somebody commented.good collection.

[varunasehnu]

she will be the next ms subalakshmee

[sharik3000]

shankvio= idiot, she is wearing something beautiful and distinct as are the men, i see nothing gaudy about it, makes a change from the millions of indian men, ie goats, with their drab shirts, and a pen in their top pocket seeking modernity?, which i imagine is how u might render yourself. peace

[uptothe]

u r rite,,,i mean , complain abt her music, but wht she wears, is her option. atleast she is weari somethin unlike bollywood.......lol

[shankvio]

Can't understand why so much of makeup, ornaments and gaudy Sarees are reqd to render kritis.

[sharik3000]

this is pure funk!!!!

[mayasuman]

very nice hope more

[nts1020]

Good performance by all .

Wholesome rendering.

thanks

[worlddominator62]

Could someone please give me the name of the Mridangist?

[leopoldbloom]

Violin: Embar Kannan

Mridangam: Skanda Subramanian

Ghatam: A.S. Shankar

Moorsing: Sundhar

Tambura: M.R. Narayanan

[SwaminathanVL]

very pleasing and nice indeed; enjoyed listening to the piece

[nramki]

Very good and pleasing

[divinepower31]

very nice

[navarasan]

Not quite Madurai Mani Iyer but not bad :)

[vnbalakrishna]

I don't want the video only MP3 of the songs. The videos keep breaking every few seconds and the song gets disturbed. How I am to acces the MP3?

bala