Musicians

Babu Parameswaran is one of the sought after musicians who is specialized in singing Indian Classical Music. Babu traces direct lineage with the legendary Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, and has mastered the art of singing and conducting Bharatanaatyam performances under the Dhananjayans.

His evocative singing with a consummate understanding of the idiom has made him a much sought-after accompanist by many performers, culminating in his becoming a US resident. 

Babu is the Director of Keerthana School of Indian Music & Fine Arts, Los Angeles, is a boon to talented students who require advance training in Carnatic music. He is a versatile artist who can sing both the Carnatic and Hindustani styles of music and Keyboard artist who can create great music on the newly developed synthesizers. A composer of both classical and fusion music, Babu has enriched the Naatya productions of the Indian artistes in America, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He has performed with most of the leading dancers in India and abroad. He is a staff artist of Bharata Kalanjali, the dance academy of the world-renowned dancers The Dhananjayans for the past 14 years.

Sudakshina Alagia began singing at the early age of five. She completed her Bmus at 15 and continued to study Northern Hindustani Classical music from Pandit J V Subba Rao.

She has a melodious voice and is able to sing a wide variety of songs including Ghazals, Bhajans, Classical, Semi-classical, Orissi as well as Bengali songs.

Through her studies in School and College, she won several awards and competitions. Sudakshina holds a Masters degree in Biological Sciences with Cytogenetics emphasis and was completing her PhD in Zoology when she got married and came to the United States.

She has studied music with Lakshmi Shankar in Los Angeles, California and has performed with Lakshmiji, alongside concerts of her own in the U.S. Canada and Europe; including concerts involving dance troops of different languages and cultures of India. In the year 2000, Sudakshina released her first CD in India. She also sang in hindi television series including solo songs and a duet with Sonu Nigam.

Currently Sudakshina lives in San Diego, California and is a board member for the center for world music. She offers classes in Northern Hindustani Classical music and she is available to do concerts.

Jyoti Prakas began his musical career in Tabla at childhood with his father, Sri Nagendranath, and later with Pandit Brojen Biswas and Sri Sumantra Guha.

As his passion and experience playing Tabla progressed, he came under the guidance of Pandit Abhijit Banerjee, one of the world’s top ranking Tabla players.

Jyoti Prakas has participated in numerous music concerts in Kolkata and performed in other cities of India and the US with world famous vocalist Pandit Jasraj and Kathak dancers like Shrimati Sova Kosar. He has also played with Pandit Keshav Ghinde, Flute, and Pandit K. Sidhar, Sarod.

He performed with Kathak dancer Pandit Chitresh Das and tap dancer Jason Samuel Smith in Monterey Bay University, California. He also played with David Tasroff, Sarod, and Paul Livingstone, Sitar. He worked as an Assistant Music Director for a telefilm on Child Psychology for Kolkata Television. He was honored to play in the prestigious EMMY AWARD in 2005.

Currently Jyoti Prakas teaches at the prestigious music school DHWANI ACADEMY OF PERCUSSION MUSIC, founded by Pandit Abhijit Banerjee representing Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.

Radhakrishnan Ramachandran is a carnatic musician playing on the Indian Bamboo Flute

He started his music training on the violin and then went on to learn flute under Sri Nataraja Iyer, senior most disciple of the Indian flute wizard T.R.Mahalingam (Mali). He also had the opportunity of getting guidance from the flute exponent Padmasri Dr. N.Ramani and Mridangam vidwan Thanjavur Sri Ramdas. He also had the rare privilege of learning a few Hindustani compositions directly from the living legend Pandit Ravishankar.

He has presented flute concerts and accompanied several musical presentations at various venues all over the US including performing at the prestigious Lincoln Center, New York and as part of the Pandit Ravishankar ensemble at the Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood California.

Radhakrishnan is a Senior Firmware engineer at the Wireless Datacom Division at CalAmp Corporation, San Diego,  California and lives in North San Diego county with Arthy and 5 year old Adarsh.

Dr. Subrahmanyam Sudhakar had his initial mridangam tutelage from Sri Kumbakonam Narayanaswamy Iyer and then with the Late Sri M.N. Kandaswamy Pillai of the Palani School.

He is currently taking advanced lessons from Kalaimamani Sri Guruvayur Dorai. Dr. Sudhakar has accompanied several musicians and dancers all over the US and in India. He lives with his family in Phoenix, Arizona.

Krishna Kutty has been playing the violin for a number of years.

At age 13, he began his initial training with V. Lakshminarayan, father of renowned violinist L. Subramaniam. Later he continued his advanced training with Viji Krishnan, daughter of Padmabushan T.N.Krishnan. Since 1988, Krishna has accompanied numerous music and dance performances in California and abroad. Krishna is currently a senior research scientist working for a private Biotech company outside of San Diego. His fluency and love for the music is eloquently displayed in his proficiency of playing violin.