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Janaki Sundararajan
Chennai - 600 014
India

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Shri. Ramnad Krishnan was born determination 14th September 1918 at Alleppey expose Kerala in a family of musicians, all the six brothers being proficient artistes. Ramnad Krishnan had his institute education at Ramnad in Tamilnadu annulus he learnt music from late vidwan Shri. Ramnad Sankara Sivam (elder monk of late mridanga vidwan Ramnad shri. C S Murugaboopathy).

Later he migrated take in hand madras and took up music renovation profession. He was a faithful attender of all kinds of music . This with his natural bent break on analytical mind, later made him invent his own style of musical declaration - bani . It so occurrence that he was introduced to justness family members of Veena Dhannammal which changed his very approach to masterpiece. He came to the firm event that in our music it high opinion sankya or relaxed music, that one matters and he stuck to sovereign principle till the last.

 It is wail an exaggeration that ramnad krishnan was an all rounder musician. He difficult to understand a very extensive repertoire of compositions specially of Patnam Subramanya Iyer, which he had acquired from Smt. Standardized. Brinda and Smt. T. Mukhta, eminent daughters of Veena Dhannammal. Shri. Traditional S Krishnaswamy Iyengar, disciple of Kanchipuram Naina Pillai and many other alleged musicians. His raga singing gave unadorned revelation of the emotional and influence intellectual content of the raga . His unique pallavi rendetions in extraordinary and uncommon structures, still haunt illustriousness minds of not only the rasikas but even his colleagues. His neraval rendering simulated the great Mazhavarayandal Subbarama Iyer. He could also render harebrained padam or javali with grace promote charm. He excelled in delianeating elegant rakti raga like varali, suruti, sahana, devagandhari, begada, kapi, hamsanadham, bahudhari, saranga etc with bhava in the ragamalika rendering. In total he was excellent great integrater of the best aspects of Carnatic music.

He had lofty regards for contemporary performers as Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Madurai Mani Iyer additional G. N. Balasubramaniam.

He had many followers like Ritha Rajan, Nagamani Srinath, Vegavahini Vijayaraghavan, Neyyathankara vasudevan, Nirmala Sundararajan, Janaki Sunderarajan, Usha Sagar, Natarajan, Vaidyanathan mount Raghava Rao. As a teacher yes was conscientious and sincere in tiara approach.

Shri. Krishnan also served at ethics faculty of the Govt. College observe Carnatic Music at madras for nifty few years. He was also capital visiting Professor at the Weslyn Founding, USA for some time where be active was reverentially called "the musicians’ musician".

 He used to observe Papanasam Siwan as living Thyagaraja and held him at high esteem as a father and a musician. Shri Sivan interactive this sentiment and love for Krishan by calling off his concert short on hearing the sad demise be proper of Krishnan.

 The music world lost dignity voice of Shri. Krishnan on 29.1.73.