Bombay Jayashri

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Bombay Jayashri

Background information
Origin India
Genre(s) Indian classical music
Playback singing
Carnatic music
Bhajan
Instrument(s) veena
Years active 1989 – present

Bombay S Jaishree was born to Shri N N Subramaniam and Smt Seetha, who groomed her in carnatic music in her initial years. Her regimented initiation into music was under her father's guidance at the age of four and she is now one of the promising carnatic vocalists.

Jaishri started her learning under the tutelage of Smt T R Balamani Ammal. She was quickly into concert performances in her teens and in 1989, she had the rare privilege of enrolling herself as a disciple of the legend Padmashri Lalgudi G Jayaraman. Since 1989, she has been under the guidance and tutelage of the renowned violin maestro.

Jayashri has performed in all the major institutions, festivals and sabhas in India and has won rich acclaim from critics and rasikas. Bombay Jaishri is an ‘A’ grade artiste of All India Radio and is a regular performer on Doordarshan.

She is also a student of veena, under Shri G N Dhandapani Iyer.

Jayashri is a commerce graduate from Bombay University. While at university, she collected an impressive array of awards and titles in the fields of music, dance and dramatics. She also received a Diploma in Music from the Gandharva Maha Vidyalaya.

She was the recipient of the first award given by CMANA to the best artiste under 25 tears of age. She was awarded the title of Yuva Kala Bharathi ("young poet of the fine arts") by Bharat Kalachar in the year 1992.

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[edit] Profile

Bombay S Jayashri is an exciting young star of Carnatic music. She hails from a musical family. Therefore, it was only natural that she received her initial training from her parents. Her inborn skills and flair for Carnatic music were further honed by Smt T R Balamani Ammal of Bombay. This opportunity and her subsequent move to Madras, provided her with increased avenues and wider perspectives on music. Since then, she has been continuously and devotedly applying her musical talents and interpretations to perfection.

She has released several cssettes and CDs on the major labels, like HMV, Sangeetha and Inreco and is a popular favourite at the record stores.

She is the recipient of several awards from reputed institutions like The Music Academy, Shanmukhananda Sabha (Bombay), Krishna Gana Sabha (Madras) and Indian Fine Arts (Madras).

She has performed extensively in India at the above organisations and also at others such as Mylapore Fine Arts Club (Madras), Kalangan (Delhi), ramakrishna Bhajana Mandali (Bangalore), Gayana Samaj (Bangalore), Seshadripuram Rama Seva Samithi (Bangalore) and Indian Fine Arts (Madras).

According to many critics, Jayashri's music is as much an emotionally enriching experience as it is a satisfying essay in musical artistry. In the words of SVK, the renowned critic who writes for The Hindu newspaper, "In the ultimate analysis, good music is not acquired, it is gifted as in the case of Bombay Jayashri." Her music contains conventional decorum, exquisite musical quality, bhava laden richness and an exquisite tonal texture, which is sustained right through her concert. She has, under the guidance of her illustrious guru-s, fined tuned the art of projecting her sweet voice, along with her erudite interpretations of Carnatic music, in an immensely popular and knowledgeable framework, to produce enjoyable music.

Gaining deeper insights into the richness and beauty of this great art form, from a Guru who has demonstrably mastered every aspect of Carnatic Music, Jayashri's career took wings. She has been growing from strength to strength. Harnessing a facile and mellifluous voice with great restraint and dignity she presents her music with a rare charisma which invariably draws a large listening audience to her concerts. Today, Jayashri occupies an important place in Carnatic Music's hierarchy and makes bold to becoming, along with an exclusive band of colleagues in the profession, a name to be reckoned with, and remembered well into the next millennium.

[edit] from Newspapers

She feels deeply and consistently and communicates her art in chaste melody… her music is more of esoteric langour. [SR, Indian Express]

Some artistes are endowed with a good voice, some with gnana, but Bombay Jayashri is blessed with both. She has an intuitive feel for the ingredients of musical excellence. (SVK, The Hindu, 10 Jan 1993)

{Jayashri's rendition of} Dikshitar’ song Sri Lakshmi varaham, not in common use, breathed the fragrance of aesthetic authenticity. She has realised that sangitam becomes sukham when it looks askance at the gross and clings to the subtle. [SVK, The Hindu, 10 Jan 1993]

For over three hours, music rasika-s of Delhi were transported to Indralok by Bombay S Jayashri… Her voice, an alchemy of the veena, violin and nadasvaram, gripped the audience totally… Kapi and Shakarabharanam sparkled like the Kohinoor in her crown of delineations. She delineated the Kapi in both the Carnatic and the Hindustani styles… The alapana had its due share of the reposeful vilambit, the soothing madyama and the tempestuous bravura passages… All without a single tonal slip. [Subbudu, The Statesman, 24 November 1994]

{Jayshri's} recital at the Mylapore Fine Arts Club had a touch of class – melodious and professional. In her two hour recital, never once did she strike a false note. [Subbudu, Indian Express, 20 December 1992]

Endowed with a sweet voice Jayashri displayed the happy results of her training in distinguished classical schooling… [RV, The Hindu, 25 December 1992]

{Bombay Jayashri} is aware that each song has a distinctive personality of its own and should be sung with such a consciousness. She realised the objective by the total receptivity with which the jampacked audience melted with the Ahiri melody.

[edit] Discography

  • Shambho Mahadeva (1993, Sangeetha Records/Koel Records 014)
  • Rare Blend of Raga & Sahitya CD (1997, Magnasound Records/OMI Records 5046)
  • Paalinchu Kaamaakshi CD (1997, Koel Records 070)
  • Atma: Soul CD (2000, CDW Records 6235)
  • Nekkurugi Irnagalada CD (2000, Saregamma Records 6234)
  • Shravanam: Music for Meditative Listening CD (2001, Charsur Digital Workstation 018)
  • Vatsalyam: Collection of Traditional Indian Lullabies CD (2003, Orchard Records)
  • Ksetra Kanshi CD (2004, Orchard Records)

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