->GreenC bot: Rescued 1 archive link. Wayback Medic 2.5

2021-08-09T01:54:01Z

Rescued 1 archive link. Wayback Medic 2.5

New page

{{short description|Indian tabla player (born 2003)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Keshava Kaarthikeyan
| image = Keshava Kaarthikeyan.png
| image_size =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| alias =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2003|03|01|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Chennai]], Tamil Nadu
| origin = [[India]]
| death_date =
| genre = [[Hindustani classical music]]
| occupation = Tabla Prodigy
| instrument = ''[[tabla]]''
| years_active = 2010–present
| label =
| associated_acts =
| website =
| current_members =
| past_members =
}}
'''Keshava''' Kaarthikeyan (born {{birth date|2003|03|01|df=y}}) is an Indian [[tabla|tabla player]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101006063213/http://sify.com/news/young-tabla-prodigy-enthrals-cwg-audience-news-national-kkduachebih.html sify.com]</ref> He is a prodigy and performed at the age of seven at the [[Delhi Commonwealth Games]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Child-tabla-prodigy-enthralls-audience-at-CWG-opening/Article1-607734.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024080146/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Child-tabla-prodigy-enthralls-audience-at-CWG-opening/Article1-607734.aspx | url-status=dead | archive-date=24 October 2010 |title = Hindustan Times – Archive News}}</ref>
[[File:Keshava CWG.png|thumb|Keshava performing at Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony 2010]]

==Early life==
Keshava Kaarthikeyan was born in Chennai, India and grew up in a musical family in Pondicherry, Auroville, India <ref>{{Cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Biggest-ever-Commonwealth-Games-begins-in-Delhi/articleshow/6678262.cms | title=Biggest ever Commonwealth Games begins in Delhi|work=The Times of India}}</ref> He is the grandson of noted artist and arts patron, [[Prafulla Dahanukar]].<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/article811429.ece?homepage=true | title=Child prodigy delights spectators| newspaper=The Hindu| date=4 October 2010| last1=Sarkar| first1=Urvashi}}</ref> He started learning tabla when he was two years old.

==Career==
Keshava was spotted by [[Bharat Bala]] at an event, while he was conceiving ''Rhythms of India'', the first Part of the Delhi Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in 2010. Since then he has performed extensively with his mother Gopika Dahanukar and raga-guitarist [http://www.ragamantra.com Nadaka] and learnt from Amit Kavtekar a student of [[Ustad Allarakha]]. Keshava was also enrolled in the Pandit [[Shankar Ghosh]] Academy online and has also taken classes with Pt. Arup Chattopadhay and masterclasses with Ustad Zakir Hussain. Currently he is under the guidance of Pt. Yogesh Samsi from the Punjab Gharana and a long time student of Ustad Allarakha.

Keshava has performed extensively in India, Europe, USA and Canada. Some of the noted bands and musicians he has played with are Portico UK in jazz improvisation for Action against Hunger, Marc Longis bass guitarist, Mahesh Vinayakaram vocalist, Pt Raja Kale vocalist.

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Keshav}}
[[Category:Hindustani instrumentalists]]
[[Category:Indian drummers]]
[[Category:Tabla players]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:2003 births]]
[[Category:21st-century drummers]]

Keshava (musician) - Revision history

->GreenC bot: Rescued 1 archive link. Wayback Medic 2.5