Popularly known as Sivamani

Anandan Sivamani (born 1959), popularly known as Sivamani, is an Indian Tamil percussionist. (Musical instruments that you play by hitting them with your hand or an object such as a stick)

He plays many instruments including drums, Octoban, ( from octo meaning "eight" ) Darbuka, (goblet shaped hand drum used in Arabic) Udukai, and Kanjira, as well as many more.

Goblet: A container from which drink, especially wine, is drunk, usually made of glass or metal, and with a stem and a base but no handles

BIOGRAPHY

Sivamani is the son of S. M. Anandan, a Chennai-based percussionist.

He began drumming at the age of seven. Sivamani started his music career at the age of 11, and later shifted to Mumbai.

He touts S. P. Balasubrahmanyam as his Godfather.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

ASSOCIATION

Sivamani's earliest experiments with music were with Carnatic maestros including Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, T. V. Gopalakrishnan, Valliyapatti Subramaniam and Pazhanivel, and L. Shankar.

Sivamani has since collaborated with several musicians including Louis Banks. He has done world tours with A. R. Rahman and collaborated with him for Bombay Dreams.

He has also been a part of a musical group called Shraddha which comprises Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan, U. Srinivas and Loy Mendonsa (Before becoming a music composer, he was a keyboard musician for famous music composers such as A. R. Rahman and Nadeem-Shravan )

Shivamani has a music band named "Asia Electrik" with Nilathri Kumar, Louiz Banks and Ravi Chari. He also plays at another world music band named "Silk & Shrada."

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

FILMS

Sivamani has played drums for many notable film score composers hailing from Tamil Nadu including

A. R. Rahman and Ilayaraja. He has played drums for many Indian films including Roja, Rang De Basanti, Taal, Lagaan, Dil Se, Guru, and Kabul Express. Some of the notable songs that he has contributed to include "Kadhal Rojave," "Pudhu Vellai Malai" and Chaiya Chaiya.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sivamani has performed in Dubai, Moscow, New York, Doha and Toronto. He has also worked on Galli Galli Sim Sim, an educational series on Pogo and Cartoon Network.

Sivamani has also acted in movies. He co-starred with Thomas Jane in the Telugu movie Padamati Sandhya Raagam.

Sivamani is the Brand Ambassador for Xone - wirefree music.

ALBUMS

Golden Krithis Colours, (1994) a Carnatic Experimental album. BMG Crescendo (collaboration with Dilip, Zaakir Husain and Srinivasan and Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan)

Pure Silk (2000)

Drums On Fire (2003). New Earth (collaboration with James Asher)

Kaash (first ghazal album with Hariharan)

Idiom - Pot calling the kettle black - What it means?

Idiom - Pot calling the kettle black. A situation in which someone accusing another person of a fault is also guilty of the same fault. The Sara tried to criticize William for driving drunk, until she realized that doing that would be like the pot calling the kettle black, because Sara had been arrested for drunk driving two years ago.

Vernacular - Word Wrap

Vernacular – Noun It's the way people really talk with each other, like how families talk at home. The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region. Synonyms: Everyday language, Spoken language Colloquial speech Native speech Conversational language. Antonyms: formal language Examples of Vernacular in sentences His vernacular identified him as a Frenchman. It is impossible to understand her vernacular! When the clan moved away from their tribe, they created their own vernacular. He wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience. He wrote in the vernacular and adopted a non-academic style accessible to the public. Suffix Vernaculars - noun Vernacularization - noun Vernacularism - noun The Vernacularization of African Languages after Independence. We also welcome papers that a

“goldbricking” mean

English Edification Enrichment- What is the origin of "honeymoon"? In the old days people wanted their marriage to start on a sweet note. It was therefore customary for newlyweds to drink mead for a month. Mead was a drink made from honey. The "moon" refers to the period of thirty days or one month that the couple was expected to drink the mead. After the first month, the couples came face to face with reality; they realized that their affection, like the moon, would wax and wane. By the way, the word "honeymoon" need not always be used to refer to the holiday that newly married couples take immediately after marriage. The term is now being used to refer to an early stage in any activity when people are happy with each other because everything is going smoothly. Here are a few examples. * The President's honeymoon period with the press is over. * The honeymoon between my boss and me still continues. * The allegations made it c

iqdigest

Search This Blog