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Place of Birth: Thalainayar, Tamil Nadu, India
About T. N. Sivakumar
- Thalainayar Narayanaswamy Sivakumar (T.
- N.
- Sivakumar) (Tamil: ??.??? .
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- He is a disciple of Sri T.
- R.
- Mahalingam.
- He has performed in various cultural concerts across the globe.
- He was told by Kanchi Paramacharyar H.H.Chandrashekara saraswathy that he would be leading the rest of his life with a bamboo stick; (South Indian bamboo flute venu).
- Sri.
- Sivakumar lost his father at an early age and was brought up by his mother.
- His mother was very well versed in carnatic music who was his first teacher.
- Sri.Sivakumar started learning vocal music from his mother and started learning the flute from the age of seventeen.
- He started learning many songs just by listening to the radio.
- She contributed a lot by taking her visually challenged son everywhere to learn music taught him to play songs in a particular style.
- He mastered many songs composed in a way his mother sang.
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