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.

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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."

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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.

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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)

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