When singer Hrishi Balaji was growing up in Potomac, Maryland, he was the least prepared and least interested student in his South Indian singing classes. Now, the 24-year-old TikToker has over 60,000 ...

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For 35 years, O.S. Arun has been a professional singer of Carnatic music, a classical genre popular in South India. It's an embellished form of singing frequently backed by the tanpura, a long-necked, ...

Chong Chiu Sen does not fit one’s expectations of what a Carnatic vocalist should look like. But a conversation with the 38-year-old reveals his deep passion for this Indian classical art form. His ...

For University of North Texas alumnus Aakash Sridhar, the journey to jazz — and his debut album, Revived Emotions — started with the tabla and few chances to improvise. “I was not into the concept of ...

Observing his affinity for nadaswaram ensembles at weddings, Vignesh Ishwar’s grandmother, Sarada Krishnan, enrolled him for vocal lessons at age four. “I am singing now only because of her,” says ...