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Jayashri Ramnath | |
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%2c_December_2017.jpg) Jayashri plays a concert at the PJ Civic Centre Auditorium,Malaysia | |
| Born | 2 December 1964 or 1965 (age 60–61)[1] Calcutta,West Bengal, India |
| Alma mater | R. A. Podar College |
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| Years active | 1982–present |
| Known for | Carnatic singing |
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| Instrument(s) | Vocals,veena |
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| Website | bombayjayashri YouTube Channel : Bombay Jayashri Ramnath Facebook Page : Bombay Jayashri Ramnath Twitter : Bombay Jayashri Instagram : Bombay Jayashri Ramnath |
Jayashri Ramnath ("Bombay") is an IndianCarnatic vocalist, singer, and musician. She has sung songs in multiple languages, including forTamil,Telugu,Kannada,Malayalam,Hindi andEnglish movies. Born into a family of musicians, Jayashri represents the fourth generation of music practitioners in her family. Trained byLalgudi Jayaraman and T.R. Balamani,[2][3][4] She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award, thePadma Shri, in 2021.[5][6] In December 2023, she was awarded the most prestigious award in the Carnatic music field, theSangeetha Kalanidhi, by theMadras Music Academy. She was nominated for an AcademyAward for Best Original Song (Oscar) forPi's Lullaby fromLife of Pi movie.[7] She is one of the most sought-after Carnatic musicians today.[4]
Jayashri was born into a Tamil-speaking family inCalcutta. She received her initial training inCarnatic music from her parents, Smt. Seethalakshmy Subramaniam and Shri. N. N. Subramaniam, and was later trained byLalgudi Jayaraman and T. R. Balamani.[8][9] She also learned to play theVeena from G. N. Dhandapani Iyer.
Jayashri received training in Hindustani classical music from K. Mahavir Jaipurwale andAjay Pohankar.[10] She also holds a diploma in Indian music from theGandharva Mahavidyalaya,Delhi.
Jayashri studiedBharatanatyam under Guru K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai of Shri Rajarajeshwari Bharatha Natya Kalamandir, Mumbai. She was also involved in theater with the Amateur Dramatic Club, Mumbai.
Jayashri attended St. Anthony's High School inChembur. She holds a bachelor's degree in commerce and economics fromR. A. Podar College,Mumbai
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Jayashri performed her first concert in 1982. She has performed at various festivals and venues all across India and in over 35 different countries. In India, she has performed at all the major festivals. In New Delhi:Rashtrapati Bhavan, Vishnu Digambar festival, Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Sri Shanmukhananda Sabha, India International Centre, Indira Gandhi National University, and Bhakti Utsav. She has performed also at Saptak,Ahmedabad; The Music Academy and Sri Krishna Gana Sabha,Chennai;ITC Sangeet Research Academy,Kolkata;NCPA and Sri Shanmukhananda Sabha,Mumbai;Chowdiah Memorial Hall and Vasantha Habba,Bangalore;Kuthira Malika and Soorya Festival,Trivandrum, The Palace ofMysore and at theMatrimandir Amphitheatre atAuroville. Across India, she has performed for the Spirit of Unity Concerts for National Integration, theSPIC MACAY Festivals, and All India Radio's Sangeet Sammelan.
In the US, she has performed at the Lincoln centre for the performing arts, Carnegie hall, Kennedy Centre for performing arts World Music Institute – New York;University of Arizona – Tucson;University of Texas – Austin;MIT – Boston; University of Louisiana – New Orleans;Cornell University andAmherst College.She also has performed in theSydney Opera house (The first carnatic Musician to perform there).
Jayashri's Europe tours have included venues such as: Sadler's Wells and Queen Elizabeth Hall – London; Festival of Sacred Voices andMuseum Rietberg – Switzerland; Vantaa Festival and The Russian Opera House – Helsinki, Finland;Théâtre de la Ville, Festival of Nantes, The Museum of Sculpture and Arts, Musee des Asiatiques and Citi de la Musique – in France; Casa da Musica a Porto – Portugal; Sala de Camera – Spain and at theUniversity of Cologne.
She has also performed at The Royal Opera House – Durban,Monash University – Melbourne and Esplanade Theatre – Singapore.
On 19 September 2017, she performed atRoy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Canada, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as they gave the world premiere of Mychael Danna's "Life of Pi" suite.
Jayashri has been supportingSPIC MACAY since more than three decades. She has travelled to many places inIndia including remote places inUttarakhand, hill districts ofHimachal Pradesh,Port Blair, rural and tribal areas ofWayanad and Idukki in Kerala,Goa and many other places to perform hundreds of Lecture Demonstrations to students, introducing them to the Indian classical music.
Jayashri has performedJugalbandi concerts with Hindustani MusiciansRonu Majumdar,[11]Shubha Mudgal,[12]Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Gaurav Mazumdar. She has dialogued with artistes in dance likeLeela Samson, Chitra Visweshwaran, Alarmel Valli, Priyadarsini Govind[13] andShobana. Jayashri has sungThirukkural and anAnnamacharya verse in the prestigious audio autobiography –Wings of Fire of former PresidentShri Abdul Kalam.
Jayashri has also collaborated with Carnatic MusiciansT. M. Krishna,Jayanthi Kumaresh[14] andAbhishek Raghuram.
She performed in 'Bhaire Baanvari', the story of Meera, conceptualised and directed by Gowri Ramnarayan.[15] She also was a part of 'Mathemagician' with actor V Balakrishnan and written by Gowri Ramnarayan.Jayashri also performed at theMTV Coke Studio (India) Season 1 withUstad Rashid Khan andRicha Sharma.[16]
Jayashri also conceptualised 'Listening to Life' – A concert that features the journey of a musician as a lover of music.[17]
Her quest to interact and experiment with various forms of music has resulted in collaborations with various eminent artistes from around the world. Jayashri has sung twoSangam Period songs, Veral Veli (AKuruntokai poem byKapilar) and Yaadhum Ure in the album 'Sandham: Symphony Meets Classical Tamil', an international collaboration of various artists and Durham Symphony by ComposerRaleigh Rajan. Yaadhum Ure song, a multi genre fusion where Bombay Jayashri sang Carnatic portions along with various international singers was declared the theme song of 10thWorld Tamil Conference.[18] The album was featured in Amazon's Top#10 International Albums category in July 2020.
She has sung with Egyptian singerHisham Abbas and Senegalese singerThione Seck. In 2008, she was part of an Indo-Finnish venture 'Red Earth and Pouring Rain', where she sangKuṟuntokai – ancient poems fromSangam literature – withAvanti,conducted by John Storgards set to music byEero Hämeenniemi. This was premiered at Helsinki and was also performed at Lapland.[19] In 2012, she sang the poetry of Mirza Ghalib composed byEero Hämeenniemi at the Vantaa festival, with the Gamba quartet led by Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, Finland. The performance was also held at Hungary.[20]In 2014, she worked with Eero Hameenniemi in Yadhum Oore, Sangam Poetry and performed with Finnish Philharmonic orchestra.[citation needed]
Jayashri is also a playback singer whose film music includes Collaborations with M S Vishwanathan ( Tampathigal), Ilayaraja, A.R.Rahman, M M Keeravani, Johnson, Oesappachan, M Jayachandran,Ramesh Narayan, Haris Jayaraj, Shankar-Ehsan-Loy, Imman, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Govind Vasantha.[citation needed]Her song forHarris Jayaraj won her theFilmfare Awards South forBest Female Playback Singer – Tamil for the popular song "Vaseegara" from the Tamil filmMinnale. She sang the song "Zara Zara Bahakta Hain" (the Hindi version of "Vaseegara") in the movieRehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein with music composerHarris Jayaraj.She sang in Mahesh Dattani's 'Morning Raga' for the music of Amit Heri. She has sung in various films inHindi, Tamil, Bhojpuri,Kannada,Telugu andMalayalam languages. She collaborated with composerMychael Danna on "Pi's Lullaby" from the film adaptation ofYann Martel's bookLife of Pi in 2012.
She has composed music for Kalidasa's Meghadootham, choreographed by Sheejith Nambiar and Parvathy menon, produced by Aim for Seva. She has composed the music for Meera- Soul Divine, choreographed by Chitra Vishweshwaran, produced by Aim for Seva.[citation needed]Jayashri worked withAng Lee on his motion picture,Life of Pi. She performed the lyrics for "Pi's Lullaby", which was nominated for the 2012 Oscars in the Best Original Song category. She has also composed music for actorRevathi's filmsVerukku Neer andMagal inKerala Cafe.[21]In 2004, Jayashri composed music forSilappadhikaaram, a dance drama commissioned by the Cleveland Cultural Alliance.She has composed music for her albums, Shravanam, Smaranam and more.[citation needed]
In 2001, Jayashri, along withSanjay Subrahmanyan andT. M. Krishna wrote the book 'Prof. Sambamoorthy, the visionary musicologist', detailing the life and times of Prof. Sambamoorthy – eminent Indianmusicologist. The book was published to commemorate his centenary. In 2007, Jayashri,T. M. Krishna – leading Carnatic vocalist and Mythili Chandrasekar – Senior Vice-president atJWT together wrote the bookVoices Within,[22] – a one-of-a-kind coffee table book that captures the pioneering spirit of 7 of the greatest Carnatic masters of the previous generations.[citation needed]
Jayashri featured in the first full-length Carnatic music film'Margazhi Ragam', conceptualised by Director P Jayendra. This was a ground breaking venture that showed Carnatic music in a whole different light. The movie, released in 2008, used the very best and latest technologies for video and sound recording. In her quest to reach music to the next generation, she along with T. M. Krishna and YACM initiated Svanubhava – a week-long Music Festival, exclusively for students of music, which continues to be conducted annually.[23]
Another dimension of music which Jayashri is focused on is in exploring the therapeutic and healing value of music. Under her Trust Hitham she shared music with Children in the Autism Spectrum.[citation needed]She and her students teach music at Swami Dayananda School at Manjakudi. She has been working closely with institution like Kilikili, Sampoorna in Karnataka and Sankalp in Tamil Nadu which care for autistic children.[citation needed] This domain is a matter of serious engagement for Jayashri and her students. Some other institutions that Jayashri has worked with include:The Banyan Chennai (rehabilitation of homeless/mentally challenged women), Vasantha Memorial Trust (cancer patients),[24] Stepping Stones Orphanage Home, Malaysia, Multiple Sclerosis Society of India, Bangalore[25] and more.
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The relatives of Malayalam poetIrayimman Thampi and the Irayimman Thampi Smaraka Trust alleged that the lyrics penned by Bombay Jayshree for "Pi's Lullaby", which was nominated for anOscar in the Best Original Song category for the 2012 filmLife of Pi, were copied from Thampi's lullabyOmanathinkal Kidavo.[33][34]Jayashri had rendered 'Omanathinkal Kidao' in a Malayalam version back in 2001 on her albumVatsalyam.[35][36]
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