God's Gift!!!

kkumar29 · Post by **kkumar29** » 14 Mar 2008, 07:20

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jen-1of ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9kladiGQlk

K. Kumar.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 14 Mar 2008, 07:31

My goodness! Amazing!!

shadjam · Post by **shadjam** » 14 Mar 2008, 07:33

Very sweet!!! Thanks for posting them.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 14 Mar 2008, 07:36

I can understand the desire to showcase her innate gnana but hope they do not make her too much a public spectacle but let her musical talents grow leaps and bounds.

mri_fan · Post by **mri_fan** » 14 Mar 2008, 07:38

actually, if you look at more videos, I think she's 20 now?

mri_fan · Post by **mri_fan** » 14 Mar 2008, 07:41

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZyNucjXDME

this is her now?

and either aswin/rohan called the violinist really bad on you tube....looks like its her father

from a later video

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 14 Mar 2008, 08:45

Wow, she has such a sweet voice. Seemed rather cranky on stage as a kid though, and I can't blame her.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 14 Mar 2008, 19:38

Speaking of the child, yes, very impressive! It is natural that she wanted to be spared the chore of responding to something she knew so well and had to repeat the answers while she had other fun things to do--as a curious child. Our learned professional psychologists on the forum could explain how exhibiting one's quick grasp of things time and again is not pleasing to the child--that too to an audience. It would be a treat to see a child reacting to a discovery in its own natural surroundings.
Recognition of rAgAs, however impressive, does not mean that the child is going to bloom into a great musician. Of course, with such a potential, the child can be guided into learning and loving music.
Expert opinion on this please...

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 14 Mar 2008, 20:58

I couldn't see the video on youtube; It says 'youtube is banned'- but from what other forumites describe, I feel she must be a child prodigy . I remember how so many years age, a young child -barely 3 or 4- was on the stage of Krishna Gana Sabha and astonished us by recognising so many ragas and at the end of each raga asked for a 'seedai'-it was Gokulashtami time! He is none other than the Chitraveena maestro Shri Ravikiran!-History repeats itself! May God bless the child!

Sam Swaminathan · Post by **Sam Swaminathan** » 15 Mar 2008, 03:25

aswinrohan......his comments on the violinist is, to put it mildly, very very rude.......I am aware that this person is involved in carnatic music in one way or other....have seen this name before....hope same/similar comments like this are not passed about them........

mri_fan · Post by **mri_fan** » 16 Mar 2008, 14:10

Sam Swaminathan wrote:aswinrohan......his comments on the violinist is, to put it mildly, very very rude.......I am aware that this person is involved in carnatic music in one way or other....have seen this name before....hope same/similar comments like this are not passed about them........

Sam..
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it looks to be aswin rohan who are members on this site (toronto bros), from the videos they've posted online

Rohin · Post by **Rohin** » 17 Mar 2008, 20:58

Sam Swaminathan wrote:aswinrohan......his comments on the violinist is, to put it mildly, very very rude.......I am aware that this person is involved in carnatic music in one way or other....have seen this name before....hope same/similar comments like this are not passed about them........

Hello forum members,

At the outset, I would like to say that I believe Srinidhi is an extremely gifted child. The minute I saw this video I immediately posted it to my own profile on facebook so that the world could appreciate her talent. However, I would like to apologize for my rather unsavory comments about the violinist in this video. It was certainly unwarranted, and if I could delete or retract the comments, I would, but I cannot unfortunately. I posted this from my youtube account "ashwinrohin" -- unfortunately I may have inadvertently implicated my brother in this as well. However I didn't feel the need for anonymity as I did find the violin's playing somewhat strange.

My reason for saying this was merely to highlight how truly gifted the child was, since she was able to identify the raga despite some ambiguity in his playing -- had I known it was her own father on the violin I would have thought twice about posting a message like this. It is also possible he was trying to test her and therefore played the phrases this way on purpose.

I'm sure that as her father he would have played a major role in fostering her talents -- it takes good parenting to raise talented children. I would like to sincerely apologize for this. Hope the forum members will accept and not let this affect their opinion of me or my musicianship.

Best regards,
Rohin

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 17 Mar 2008, 21:10

Well said Rohin! You certainly are a great example of the product of 'good parenting'!

MaheshS · Post by **MaheshS** » 17 Mar 2008, 22:24

Amazing kid and to be honest I guessed one wrong, when a second later she came up with the right answer! :: blush :: Hope and pray that she continues!! The way she gave Bombay Jayashree[?] the answers is mega-quick time was sweet.

I didn't notice the comment on the violinist before though I did it find his playing a bit ambiguous. But after Rohin's explanation that he might have done it on purpose makes sense now.

Sam Swaminathan · Post by **Sam Swaminathan** » 18 Mar 2008, 00:44

Rohin.....that was a lovely and heartfelt response from you and am sure rasika members, me included, appreciate it. Yes, the child is very very gifted and will go a long way, provided the talent is properly nourished and developed. Best wises to you.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 18 Mar 2008, 01:42

I don't get it. I thought (am I mistaken?) that the last video was of the child who had grown into a young woman. If so, the earlier videos were from many years ago.
Someone please clarify.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 18 Mar 2008, 02:10

Arasi,

You are correct. The video of Kum Sri Nidhi as a little one of 4 and 5 are old videos from many years ago.

Sam Swaminathan · Post by **Sam Swaminathan** » 18 Mar 2008, 03:25

Arasi....the grown up video where she sings a Kannada song (Alai Payuthe...in tamil) is sung beautifully by her. Her voice is lovely and I certainly think that she is under some structured programme of learning music. Of course, only the girls parents can confirm this.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 18 Mar 2008, 04:42

I thought it was in Telugu...

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 18 Mar 2008, 05:16

arasi wrote:I thought it was in Telugu...

It is in telugu -offcourse kAnaDa raga

Sam Swaminathan · Post by **Sam Swaminathan** » 18 Mar 2008, 07:04

hmmmmm.....finger trouble....yes it should have read Kanada and not kannada..... and the "is" has no place either !! Good one Suji !