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"GAYATHRI, more known as Baby Gayathri has become a phenomenon in the music world. Born in 1959, she developed a keen interest in Veena in her sixth year with probably her sixth sense playing an important part in her achievements. The idyllic atmosphere of music at home—her mother, a veena player and father, a music director in Telugu Films have must greatly influenced her in her childhood. But that was all not enough. Gayathri used to spend hours with veena in her “PUJA’ room. She never liked being disturbed in her practice and would break into tears if anyone did so. And with regular practice she gave a full concert programme to an invited audience at the age of 9. She got a break when Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Madras, invited her to take part in their Thyagaraja Festival and by request again in June 1970 for a full concert. From that time onwards, she never looked back.
Writing in ‘THE HINDU’ Mr. N. M. Narayanan (Music Critic), states about her first performance—“The tiny girl's playing on this big and difficult instrument established her as a wonder child.
There was amazing virtuosity wedded to melodic clarity, sweetness and rhythm.
There was ‘Vidwath’ and more, was style too. All these were on view adoring the innocence from which they sprang’. Again a notable feature of the performance was ‘Sruthi Suddham’. Gayathri was not seen tuning the veena as others do. Her sruthi held on beautifully an eloquent testimony to the purity and smoothness of her touch. Gayathri’s forte is her ‘laya gnanam’ of course. But to delineate in tagas (Alpana) with studied artistry highlighted by well planned mounting of ragas even in “Vakra phases’ is possible only for those possessing a gift bordering on the genius.
The traditional veena player is supposed to have at least 12 years practice but Gayathri has broken the tradition and in 9 years from her birth, she was able to do what a master veena player could do only after vigorous practice. Gayathri is God's gift to Carnatic music world.”.