{"id":97,"date":"2009-01-27T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melodiouslife.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/27\/madhu-balakrishnan-one-of-my-current-favourites-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T10:37:00","slug":"madhu-balakrishnan-one-of-my-current-favourites-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Madhu Balakrishnan: One of my current favourites!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sure you must have heard about Madhu Balakrishnan, who I feel is one of the best among the current singers. Madhu is the brother-in-law of Indian pace ace Sreesanth. Madhu nowadays is a frequent singer in almost all the South Indian languages, though he is from Kerala. He has some wonderful songs in Malayalam & Tamil. Most of his Tamil songs have been under Ilaiyaraja & Vidyasagar who have wonderfully tapped his potential of singing melodies\/semi-classical songs. Madhu has a stunning base and is excellent at giving appropriate sangathis\/variations to a song. Here are some of my favourite Madhu Balakrishnan songs, don’t miss these \ud83d\ude42 I have written some of these songs in my earlier post on Vidyasagar! Pardon my repetition here!<\/p>\n

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  1. Edhilum Ingu-Bharathi-Ilaiyaraja-a brilliant song in rare Rasikaranjini raaga.<\/li>\n
  2. Kandaen Kandaen-Madhurey-Vidyasagar-a dulcet duet with Sadhna Sargam.<\/li>\n
  3. Ding Dong-Ji-Vidyasagar-the same musical team as above and the same magic!<\/li>\n
  4. Kanaa Kandaenadi-Parthiban Kanavu-Vidyasagar-a masterpiece in Anandabhairavi raaga.<\/li>\n
  5. Pirayae Pirayae-Pithamagan-Ilaiyaraja-haunting song, haunting music, superb lyrics!<\/li>\n
  6. Guruvayur Unnikannan-Aanachandham-Jaison J Nair-a wonderful tune in Vasantha raaga.<\/li>\n
  7. Pesa Madandhaiye-Mozhi-Vidyasagar-a gem of a song!<\/li>\n
  8. Vasantha Nilaavin-Sooryan-Ilaiyaraja-What a song in Sriranjini raaga, only Madhu could have sung this! The modulations he gives in the first charanam is just amazing!<\/li>\n
  9. Vizhiyum Vizhiyum-Chathurangam-Vidyasagar-A duet with Harini, splendid song.<\/li>\n
  10. Ippavae Ippavae-Raman Thediya Seethai-the Vidyasagar\/Madhu combo rarely disappoints.<\/li>\n
  11. Raaverayay Poove-Rock n Roll-Vidyasagar-nice song.<\/li>\n
  12. Chentharmizhi-Perummazhakalam-M.Jayachandran-A must-listen duet with Chitra set in the soothing Neelambari raaga.<\/li>\n
  13. Konja Neram-Chandramukhi-Vidyasagar-A duet with Asha Bhosle set in Bageshri raaga.<\/li>\n
  14. Yen Swaasathil-Jerry-Ramesh Vinayakam-An unnoticed brilliant song, a duet with Kalyani. Ramesh Vinayakam (the unsung talent) shows his class here!<\/li>\n
  15. Pichaipaathiram-Naan Kadavul-Ilaiyaraja-another great song in the “Pirayae Pirayae” league. I am hooked to this now!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am sure you must have heard about Madhu Balakrishnan, who I feel is one of the best among the current singers. Madhu is the brother-in-law of Indian pace ace Sreesanth. Madhu nowadays is a frequent singer in almost all the South Indian languages, though he is from Kerala. He has some wonderful songs in…More <\/svg><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[111,146,295],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singers","tag-ilaiyaraja","tag-madhu-balakrishnan","tag-vidyasagar","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}