Yenna Solli Azhaithal - Kanada - Adi - E. Gayathri

E. Gayathri (b. 1959) is an Indian veena player. Gayathri was born on 9th November 1959 to Kamala Aswathama, a veteran veena vidushi and G. Aswathama, a popular film music director of telugu cinema. She started playing the veena at a very young age, making her public debut at a concert in Karpaga Vinayagar temple in R.A. Puram. In1968, when Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Triplicane invited her to participate in their Saint Thyagaraja Festival, she was only nine years old. Her performance was a resounding success in front of a huge audience of musicologists and experts.

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