Kumbakonam Ananthanarayana Bhagavathar aka Ananthanarayanan Vaidyanathan Type of Skill : Vocal Singing- Devotional Hindu Music Indian- Namasankeerthanam Other countries Performed : UAE Certification : AGMA - American Guild for Musical Artists
Years in Current Profession: 20 years Introducation I would like to introduce myself as KumbakonamAnanthanarayanaBhagavathar==Ananthanarayanan Vaidyanathan, a renowned singer of Namasankeerthanam Indian Devotional Music Vocal in PracheenaBhajanaSampradayam, grandson of BhagavathaPadapamsu, Late Sri. T.V.NarayanaSastri of Kumbakonam who was responsible for spreading Abhangs in Tamilnadu in early 60s and founder of M/s. PandurangaBhajanMandali, Ch-5 and son of Sri.T.N.Vaidyanathan(chellibhagavathar)), a renowned singer of Namasankeerthanam& founder of M/s. BhakthaswaraBhajanMandali, Chennai. Being the gifted grandson of the Late Sri T.V.NarayanaSastri, a doyen of DivyanamaSankeerthanaBhajans, Abhangs& Shiva BhajanaiSampradyam, Iam carrying out the divine tradition of my ancestors in the propagation of Namasankeerthanam among young and old alike. Amongst participating in hundreds of Bhajanprogrammes since childhood, I have performed DivyanamaSankeerthanam&RadhakalayanaUtsavams individually at various places, Started Performing Individually at the age of 18. Performed Widely across India and Tamilnadu various KalyanaUtsavams, Divyanamasankeerthanam and Devotional Music. Performed in Prestigious sabhas like Krishna GanaSabha, NaradaGanaSabha,Hamsadwani, Delhi Tamil Sangam, Tatvaloka, BharatiyaVidyaBhavan, AstikaSamaj-Mumbai, MulundBhajanSamaj Mumbai, SGBS Trust Bangalore, VedBhavan Hyderabad, VedBhavanKolkatta, AstikaSamaj, Ahmedabad, AyodyaMandapam Sri Ram Samaj, Chennai etc Well versed in singing Muli lingual Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Marati, Gujarati etc. ExpertisedAbhangs-MaratiBhajan from my Father Abhang Singer- ChelliBhagavathar(T.N. Vaidyanathan) Expertise in JayadevaAshtapathi, Krishna LeelaTarangini- Singing with Discourse-Harikatha Expertise in Performing KalyanaUtsavams in PracheenaBhajanSampradaya without deviation from ancestral tradition RadhaKalyanam, Seethakalyanam, RukminiKalyanam, ValliKalyanam, MeenakshiKalyanam, andalKalyanam etc. AWARDS Nallor Viruthu was awarded in 2018 in Chennai Kalasamrakshaka was awarded by YACD in 2019