Govindasamy Naicker

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rajeshnat
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Govindasamy Naicker

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V Govindasamy Naicker must have been a madras based vidwan is my best guess . He has played all the early celestial greats like Mazahavarayandal Subbarama Bhagavatar, tiger varadachari ... then ariyakudi, semmangudi , mmi and then towards his fag end of his career with DR M Balamuralikrishna and Madurai Somu. Quite a roster list of vidwans.

Write up of this violinist and centenaray celebrations of vidwan Govindasamy naicker that came on Nov 17th,2017 in The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/m ... 479002.ece

Few recordings
# GNB with Govindasamy Naicker taking up Anandabhairavi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipKF_FtYhNg

# MMI , Govindasamy Naicker and the living legend trichy sankaran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Qw7hvqK40

# Madurai somu , Govindasamy Naicker and CS Murugabhoopathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ony7GPrWCmI

All the above links courtesy Raju Asokan, thank you raju asokan.

For the very little I know of govindasamy naicker , certainly Govindasamy Naicker had melody in his bow. I am making a guess that he was based out of Madras (he was not a tanjore or palghat import in 1920's). His gurus are Rathinavel Pillai and Villivakkam Narasimhachari (with that assuming he was stationed at madras).

Govindasamy Naicker was a quick learner and by the age of 12 was ready to perform. His first stage performance happened in 1928, when he accompanied Chintadripet Thiyagaraja Pillai. I remember our DR VK Vishwanathan telling a lot about his accompaniment with Madurai Mani in private with me. If some old timers like MKR sir can add more about govindasamy naicker that would be nice .

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