Let the forum help me in collating the data for a proposed project of mine.OK if one is a performing artist and other is teaching.Also relevant if in a family-father-son- daughter, grandchild-brothers are performing.
For my better understanding please specify the nature-vocal,Instrument etc.

few are here..

1. D.K.Pattammaal - D.K.Jayaraman - sister - brother
2. D.K.Pattamaal - Lalitha sivakumar - MIL - SIL
3. D.K.Pattamaal - Nityashree - Grand mom - Grand daughter
4. D.K.Pattamaal - sivakumar - mother - son (apply all above combinations!!!!)
5. lalgudi jayaraman - GJR Krishnan - Vijayalakshmi - Sankari Krishnan (father, son, daughter - violin, daughter in law - vocal)
6. Ravikiran - gottuvadhyam; carnatica brothers sashikiran - ganesh - brother, cousin
7. ganesh - kumaresh - violin - brothers
8. bombay sisters - vocal - sisters
9. maharajapuram vishwanatha iyer - santhanam - srinivasan/ramachandran - grand dad, son, grand sons
10. malladi brothers - vocal
11. vijay siva - manoj siva - poorna siva - (vocal, mrudangam, violin - brother, brother, sister)
12. J.Vaidhyanathan - mridangam (son of DKJ, husband of poorna siva)
13. Tanjore sivanandam, sarada sivanandam - veena - husband - wife
14. trichur ramanchandran, charumati ramachandran, subhashini ramachandran - husband, wife, daughter
15. T.M.Krishna, sangeetha sivakumar - husband, wife
16. K.V.Narayanaswamy - padma narayanaswamy - anuradha suresh krishnamurthy - husband, wife, dauthgter
17. T.N.Krishnan, viji krishnan, sriram krishnan - father, daughter, son
19. M.S.Subbulakshmi, radha vishwanathan, vijaya rajendran - mother, daughters
20. Madurai mani iyer - T.S.Vembu Iyer - T.V.Shankara narayanan - vocal - uncle / brother in law / nephew
21. T.Brinda, T.Mukta - sisters - vocal; Dhanammal - veena - grand mother

There will be many more, i will add if i think of.. I am sure others will help you...

-hari

Priya Sisters, Hyderabad Brothers, Mambalam Sisters, Sikkil Sisters, Kasaravalli Sisters, N.Ramani/R.Thiagarajan, Alattur Brothers, B.V.Raman/B.V.Lakshmanan, Radha/Jayalaksmi, Ranjani/Gayatri, Mysore Brothers (violin), R.K.Srikantha/Ramanath, Brinda/Mukta, Hyderabad Sisters.

Lakshman Sir - Alathur brothers are not real brothers - as far as i know - they learnt under same guru

http://www.carnaticcorner.com/articles/ ... others.htm

Mambalam sisters - Their father is S.K.Rangachari - kanjira vidwan, and their sister Dr.Hemalatha is violinist..

-hari

Sikkil Sisters - Mala Chandrasekhar (mother-daughter)
Sikkil Sisters - Sikkil Gurucharan (grandmother-granndson)
Mala Chandrasekhar - Sikkil Gurucharan - (aunt-nephew)
Radha Viswanathan - Mala Chandrasekhar - (MIL-DIL)
Sulamangalam Sisters
Charumati Ramachandran - Trichur V Ramachandran - Subhashri Ramachandran (wife-husband-daughter)
Flute Mali - Ramani - (uncle-nephew)
T.N. Krishnan - N. Rajam - (siblings)
Lakshmi Shankar - L. Subramaniam (OK not fully CM - ) - (MIL-SIL)
Lakshmi Visvanathan - Charumati Ramachandran (bharatanATyam CM combo) - (sisters)
TNS - TNS Krishna - (father-son)
Siva brothers - J Vaidyanathan - (Brothers-in-law)

Palghat Mani iyer - palghat raja mani (father - son)
Palghat mani iyer - lalitha sivakumar (father - daughter)

Parur sundaram iyer - M.S.Anantharaman - M.S.Gopalakrishnan - dad & sons - violin
M.S.Anantharaman - M.A.Sundaresan

N.Ramani - R.Thyagarajan - Atul kumar - flute - grand father - son - grand son

Palghat Raghu - Abhishek Raghuram - - mridangam / vocal - grand father - grand son

Lalgudi Rajalakshmi - Lalgudi Jayaraman - Lalgudi Srimati Brahmanandam violin - sister, brother, sister

Abhishek Raghuram - Lalgudi Rajalakshmi - vocal/violin - Grandson - grand mother

Jayanthi Kumaresh - Lalgudi Rajalakshmi - veena/violin - daughter - mother

Kumaresh - Jayanthi - husband - wife (violin / veena)

Ganesh - Kumaresh - violin - brothers

How is N.Ramani & Mali related?

Good to see that Sankari Krishnan is from the LGJ family. I thought GJRK's wife was Lalitha Krishnan the reviewer in Hindu. Sri N Ramani is a disciple of TRM. Is he also related to him ?

I think, i got name wrong - Lalitha krishnan is GJR's wife and LGJ's d-i-l. Sankari krishnan is just student of LGJ. Sorry for goof up..

-hari

Thank you all for the spontaneous response.
I can now supplement
Srimushnam RajaRao-his wife-Padma chandilyan?-Mridangam-Vocal.
Meera Sivaramakrishnan-Radha Narayanan-Daughter-Mother-Violinists.
Mangalam Sankar- Kalpagam Swaminathan-Dil_Mil-Vocal-Veena
Neyveli santanagopalan and her daughter-sri ranjani.

Sriram Parasuram-Anuradha.Violin/Vocal.
Binny Krishnakumar-Trivandrum Krishnakumar.Sarada Kalyanasundaram(Mother of Krishnakumar)
Lakshmi Krishnasamy-Vocal-(Dis.ofSri.TNS@Madurai)W/o M.A.Krishnasamy.(Parur)-Violin.
A.S.Ranganathan-Hemamalini-Mridangam-Violin.
Jayaraj-Jayashree Jayaraj-Both Veena.
Sai Narasimhan-(forget her name)-Flute/Vocal.
Bhaskar-Dr.Radha Bhasker-Mridangam/Vocal.
A.S.Murali???(Dis.ofPSN).
Udipi Gopalakrishnan???
continue.....
Sankari Subramaniam(started giving concert recently)-Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam-Vocal.
Dr.Subhashini Parthasarathy and her mother.Nirmala Sunderrajan.?.
OST family -Is it covered earlier?
Vasundara Rajagopal-Nisha Rajagopal.
Rama Ravi-Nandita Ravi.

Anantalakshmi Sadagopan - Sujata Venkataraghavan - Sumitra Nitin - (Mother-daughter-grand-daughter)
GNB - Viswesvaran (dancer Smt. Chitra's husband) - (Uncle-Nephew)

Hari,

DKP and lalitha sivakumar are mil-dil..
DKP and I.Sivakumar(mrudangam) are mother n son.

balusatya,

chengalpet ranganathan mama - sai narasimman - prarthana sai narasimman [ father - son -dil ]

a.s.krishnan(morsing), a.s.ranganathan(mrudangam), a.s.murali(vocal), a.s.shankar(gatam) are brothers. shreesundarakumar(kanjira) is related to them.

some more....

madurai balasubramaniam (vocalist and disciple of Dr.MBK) - madurai b.sundar(mrudangam,disciple of uks sir) father - son

trivandrum n.hariharan(mrudangam, disciple of uks sir) - trivandrum padma krishnan(violinist, disciple of kanyakumari) = bro-sis

palghat sriram(vocal, music director, flute,keyboard, mrudangam, drums) - trivandrum baby sriram (vocal) = husband - wife

v.l.kumar - v.l.sudharsan (both violinists, their father too) = bros

thanjavur kumar(mrudangam) - shyamala venkateswaran (vocal) = bro-sis

parthasarathy (veena)- sriram parthasarathy (vocal0- ananthanarayanan (veena) = father - son -sil

melakaveri thyagarajan - melakaveri balaji = bros

v.m.ganesan(mrudangam) kalyani ganesan (veena) subha ganesan (vocal) = hus-wife-daughter...

nagaraja rao - n.guruprasad - gatam = father - son

c.k.shyamsundar - c.s.venkataramanan - kanjira -father - son

k.v.r.s.mani - k.v.gopalakrishnan - kanjira = father - son

delhi sairam(mrudangam) - chaithra(vocal) - couple

lot more to write...

last, but not least....

umayalpuram sir - erode nagaraj = guru - disciple

[also,sir treates me as a son only.... ]

Wow, quite a network of family relations.

Ravi: Can you put in the relationships in your list?

Nagaraj: Good one on your 'relationship' to your guru..

Given this many, may be a shorter list would be the ones who do not have such family connections/networks Sanjay is probably in such a stand-alone category so far.

And T. M. Krishna

Thanks Ravi for the updates to your list with relationships. I did not know about the Mali-Ramani relationship.

BTW, Sangeetha bolts Krishna out of the standalone list

s_hari wrote:

Yes. I knew that they were not related. Thanks.

Hyderabad brothers, Padmashri M S Gopalakrishnan and Smt M Narmada, M. Lalitha and M. Nandini, Trichur Brothers

Some more:
R. K Srikantan - R. K. Sriramkumar - (granduncle - nephew)
Malladi Suri Babu - Malladi Bros - (father - sons)
Lalgudi Jayaraman - Lalgudi Padmavati - Lalgudi Rajalakshmi - (siblings)
L. Subramaniam, L Shankar, L. Vaidyanathan - (siblings)
L brothers - Lalita and Nandini - (uncles and nieces)
Pallavi Gopala Iyer - Lalgudi Siblings - (father-children)

GJR Krishnan’s wife is Lalitha Krishnan.She too was a vocalist.Their daughter plays violin.There was a concert couple of years ago with LGJ,GJR and his daughter.
Sankari Krishnan is a disciple of LGJ

Wow! What a list!
R.K. Srikantan's son Ramakanth
V.V. Sadagopan's sister Jayalakshmi Santhanam, sister-in-law Rukmani Sundararajan; cousin's wife Anantalakshmi Sadagopan--and her nephew is Madurai Sundar!
Saralaya Sisters.
Radha Viswanthan's granddaughter Aishwarya sings with her grandmother now.
Sanjay is the great nephew of Rukmani Rajagopalan.

My son was asking me why in India we are fascinated about discussing relationships and resemblances? I had to tell him it has all got to do with music

"Judges son become a judge and pauper's son remain a pauper" is a a fact with some exception. In music the progeny must be carrying the genes of their parents and grand parents and so several musicians in the same family! Any truth to this statement with some exceptions?

Dwaram - mangathayaru
Madurai T. venkatesan T. srinivasan
B Rajam iyer, B. Krishnamoorthy

rAdhA & jayalakshmi are not sisters... they were cousins that met while learning under GNB and later TR bAlu.

Some others:

vEgavAhini vijayarAghavan & t brindA - daughter & mother- vocal
ranjani & nAgavalli nAgarAj - daughter and mother- vocal
subhikshA & lakshmi rengarAjan - daughter and mother- vocal
nishA & vasundharA rAjagOpAl - daughter and mother- vocal
subhAshiNi pArthasArathi & nirmalA sundararAjan - daughter & mother - vocal

sarAlaya sisters - kavitA & trivENi - sisters - vocal. trivENi is married to violin vidvAn bengalUru HK vEngkaTarAm

jayanti & vINA sahasbuddhE - mother & daughter - hindusthAni vocal

ramani & bengalUru S Shankar - son & father - vocal

triccUr brothers - ShrIkr.shNa & rAmkumAr - twin brothers - vocal - their father is mr.Danga vidvAn triccUr mOhan

n rAjam (sister of TN kr.shNan) - sangIta Shankar - mother & daughter - violin (kalA rAmnAth is also related to this family but not sure of the relationship)

bAlasarasvati("bAla") - lakshmi knight - aniruddha knight - grandmother - daughter- grandson - bhAratanATyam

kArakkuDi sAmbaShiva aiyyer - rAjEShvari padmanAbhan - ShrIvidyA candramauLi (grandfather - mother - daughter) - vINA

daNDamUDi rAmmOhan and sumati - husband and wife - mr.Dangam

Kala Ramnath, is the daughter of Shri .T.N.Krishnan's brother.

Hey, we forgot our own - Manakkal Rangarajan - Prema Rangarajan, Manakkal Sriram -- husband, wife (both vocal), son - mridangam..

Is there anyone in a family who can give kutchery on their own? I think yes -- siva family... Vijay siva - vocal, Poorna siva - violin, manoj siva - mridangam...

Also - Mambalam sisters, vocal; hemalatha - violin, K.S.Rangachari - kanjira!!

We also forgot -- DKJ's daugher - sukanya... she is singing off and on - hope to see more of her in chennai season

We have M.Charasekhar's daughter, accompanying him on violin.

Was rukmani rajagopalan performing artist (Sanjay's aunt)

Papanasam sivan - rukmani ramani - papanasam ashok ramani (composer/singer - grand father ; mother singer ; grandson singer)

Subramanya bharati - composer/poet; rajkumar bharati - vocal

There are two illustrious family with multiple SK award... Maharajapuram & DK family!! Are there other families?


-hari

Dr. S.Ramanathan - vocal; Geetha Bennent - veena (father - daughter)

-hari