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'''Rajkumar Bharathi''' is a classical singer and music composer from India. He is the great grandson of the renaissance poet [[Subramanya Bharathi]].<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiansarts.com/rajkumarbharathipage.htm |title=Rajkumar Bharathi |access-date=2013-11-28}}</ref> Rajkumar is an Electronics and telecommunications engineer graduated from the [[College of Engineering, Guindy]], Chennai.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /><ref name="rock">{{cite news|author=Feroze Ahmed|url=http://hindu.com/thehindu/lf/2002/12/15/stories/2002121502330200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203044024/http://hindu.com/thehindu/lf/2002/12/15/stories/2002121502330200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-12-03 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|title=Carnatic, rock and a cause |date=2002-12-15|access-date=2013-11-29}}</ref> Rajkumar Bharathi | '''Rajkumar Bharathi''' is a classical singer and music composer from India. He is the great grandson of the renaissance poet [[Subramanya Bharathi]].<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiansarts.com/rajkumarbharathipage.htm |title=Rajkumar Bharathi |access-date=2013-11-28}}</ref> Rajkumar is an Electronics and telecommunications engineer graduated from the [[College of Engineering, Guindy]], Chennai.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /><ref name="rock">{{cite news|author=Feroze Ahmed|url=http://hindu.com/thehindu/lf/2002/12/15/stories/2002121502330200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203044024/http://hindu.com/thehindu/lf/2002/12/15/stories/2002121502330200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-12-03 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|title=Carnatic, rock and a cause |date=2002-12-15|access-date=2013-11-29}}</ref> Rajkumar Bharathi a native of [[Chennai]] stands today as one of the most popular artists of his generation. He has also got a great following in the Indian state of [[Karnataka]] owing to his pleasing style of rendering ''Dasara Padagalu''.<ref name="Rangoli">{{cite web|url=http://www.rangoli.org/bharati.htm |title=Rajkumar Bharathi |access-date=2013-11-30}}</ref> | ||
==Music training== | ==Music training== | ||
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==Performer== | ==Performer== | ||
Rajkumar Bharathi has given Classical Carnatic music concerts throughout India and abroad. He has traveled across USA, Canada, U.K. Gulf countries, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /> He has many audio cassettes and CDs to his credit. He has also rendered all the 18 chapters of Srimad Bhagavd Gita, in 4 volumes produced by Ramakrishna Math.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /> He was also a member of the ''[[Madras Youth Choir]]'', one of the oldest Indian choral groups formed under the aegis of the late music director [[M. B. Sreenivasan]].<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Perfect harmony|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/perfect-harmony/article428331.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=29 November 2013|location= India}}</ref> He has sung in films – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit and Tulu and was the leading Indian singer along with Sharon Rose the widely respected Black American singer in the adventurous venture, the Asian Mafia – a daring interplay between Indian and Pop style singers.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /> Rajkumar conducts workshops every summer for the London based Carnatic music students and has performed Jugalbandi concerts with Ramesh Narayan, Parameshwar Hegde and Sanjeev Abyangar. He has given performance | Rajkumar Bharathi has given Classical Carnatic music concerts throughout India and abroad. He has traveled across USA, Canada, U.K. Gulf countries, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /> He has many audio cassettes and CDs to his credit. He has also rendered all the 18 chapters of Srimad Bhagavd Gita, in 4 volumes produced by Ramakrishna Math.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /> He was also a member of the ''[[Madras Youth Choir]]'', one of the oldest Indian choral groups formed under the aegis of the late music director [[M. B. Sreenivasan]].<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Perfect harmony|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/perfect-harmony/article428331.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=29 November 2013|location= India}}</ref> He has sung in films – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit and Tulu and was the leading Indian singer along with Sharon Rose the widely respected Black American singer in the adventurous venture, the Asian Mafia – a daring interplay between Indian and Pop style singers.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /> Rajkumar conducts workshops every summer for the London based Carnatic music students and has performed Jugalbandi concerts with Ramesh Narayan, Parameshwar Hegde and Sanjeev Abyangar. He has given performance in the prestigious Canadian ''India Festival'' to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Indian Independence, in 1997.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /> | ||
==Musical Excellence== | ==Musical Excellence== | ||
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* Soorya Kanti (1997)<ref name="SK">{{cite web|url=http://www.rangoli.org/soor97.htm |title=Soorya Kanti - 1997 |access-date=2013-11-29}}</ref> | * Soorya Kanti (1997)<ref name="SK">{{cite web|url=http://www.rangoli.org/soor97.htm |title=Soorya Kanti - 1997 |access-date=2013-11-29}}</ref> | ||
* Sacred Geometry (2002)<ref name="SG">{{cite web|url=http://rangoli.org/portfolio/sacred-geometry-2002/ |title=Sacred Geometry (2002) |access-date=2013-11-29}}</ref> | * Sacred Geometry (2002)<ref name="SG">{{cite web|url=http://rangoli.org/portfolio/sacred-geometry-2002/ |title=Sacred Geometry (2002) |access-date=2013-11-29}}</ref> | ||
* Patanjali (2008) <ref name="Patanjali">{{YouTube|id=ZbrnZNDpk0g|title=Patanjali: Legends of Yoga and Dance 2008}}</ref> | * Patanjali (2008)<ref name="Patanjali">{{YouTube|id=ZbrnZNDpk0g|title=Patanjali: Legends of Yoga and Dance 2008}}</ref> | ||
He has also composed music for dance ballets like | He has also composed music for dance ballets like | ||
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* The Descent (2019) | * The Descent (2019) | ||
* Awakening (2019) | * Awakening (2019) | ||
* [[ | * [[The Colors Trilogy]] (2020 -21) | ||
He was nominated for the prestigious Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composing Music for Creation Myth, a dance ballet for the UCLA Centre for Performing Arts (University of California, LA, USA) in 1995.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /> | He was nominated for the prestigious Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composing Music for Creation Myth, a dance ballet for the UCLA Centre for Performing Arts (University of California, LA, USA) in 1995.<ref name="Rajkumar Bharathi" /> | ||