Mannargudi Easwaran
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| Mannargudi A Easwaran | |
| Born | April 1, 1947 Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu, India |
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Mannargudi Easwaran (Tamil: மன்னார்குடி ஈஸ்வரன்) (b. April 1, 1947) is a leading contemporary mridangam vidwan and exponent of the Carnatic musical tradition. He is a staff artiste of All India Radio and has received several prestigious awards, including Kalaimamani from the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2003 (for the year 2001)[1] and the Palghat Mani Iyer Award in 2006.
Mannargudi has accompanied many giants of Carnatic Music, including Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, M. S. Subbulakshmi, M. L. Vasanthakumari, Maharajapuram Santhanam, M. Balamuralikrishna, Veena S Balachander, T. N. Krishnan, Lalgudi Jayaraman, Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan, Flute Mali, Dr N. Ramani. Among the leading contemporary artists he has accompanied are T. V. Sankaranarayanan, O. S. Thyagarajan, N. Ravikiran, Maharajapuram S Ramachandran, Sudha Raghunathan, Unni Krishnan, Sanjay Subramaniam, Vijay Siva, Ganesh and Kumaresh and T.M. Krishna.
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