Chandanabala Kalyan

Chandanabala Kalyan born in the year 1980. Chandanabala had her initial training in Carnatic vocal from her father Sri S. Natarajamurthy, a renowned violinist and later from Smt. A. Rajamma Keshavmurthy. She was also trained under Sri.H.S.Sudhindra in some aspects of laya. At present she is being trained under Sangeetha Kalanidhi R.K Srikanthan and Sri Sriram Parasuram.

Chandanabala is an accomplished vocalist and has been awarded many prizes/certificates in the inter-collegiate, statelevel and national level music competitions. She has also perfomed in many sabhas, some of them being Gayana samaj 2005, Mangalore Sangeetha Parishad 2003, Sri Thyagaraja Gana Sabaha’95, Bharatha Swatantra Suvarna Mahothsava’97-organised by kannada and culture department, Ananya Cultural Programmes organised by GML academy in’96, Indian Institute of World Culture in ’98, Sri Thyagaraja and Purandarasa Festival- KGF’99 etc.

Chandanabala has also sung in a couple of Tamil movies and has performed in fusion bands (including jazz, hidusthani etc)

She is a regular performer in the radio and T.V programs like Udaya, E tv Kannada, Doordarshan etc. She has secured the masters degree in english literature from bangalore university and “a” graded artist by air. she is recipient of aryabhatta youth award-1999, ananya prathibha puraskar youth award-1999, ghantasla academy award for young artists-2004