Opening concert for Antarnaada 2024-25 Membership with S. Mahathi and team

One of the most celebrated Carnatic musicians and play back singers of today’s generation Smt. S. Mahathi hails from a family of musicians. Her father , Sri. Thiruvaiyaru P. Sekar is one of the senior most disciples of Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna and her mother Smt. Vasanthi Sekar is a flautist , disciple of Flute Sri. Mali and Smt . N . Kesi. Mahathi’s great gandfather is Sangeetha kalanidhi Pazhamaaneri Swaminatha Iyer a renowned violinist. Mahathi s great grandfather comes in the 8 th generation of the Saint Thyagaraja ‘s Sishya paramapara. Mahathi is a childprodigy who started identifying classical Ragas from her tender age of 1.5 yrs. An A grade artiste of the All India Radio and Doordarshan, Mahathi is a recipient of several prestigious awards like “ ISAI PEROLI “ the most coveted title from Kartik Fine arts, VANI KALA NIPUNA from Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha, , YUVA KALA BHARATHI from Bharath Kalachar , ISAI CHUDAR OLI , INNISAI ILAVARASI and many others. She is also playback singer who has more than 600 film songs to her credit IN TAMIL TELUGU MALAYALAM AND KANNADA and is   recipient of the TAMIL NADU GOVT STATE AWARD FOR THE BEST FEMALE PLAY BACK SINGER FOR THE YEARS 2008 and 2009.