Mahathi Singer

Mahathi is a professional singer based out of the IT capital of India, Bangalore. She could identify classical ragas at the tender age of one and a half years. Her parents recognised this talent during her father's concert at a temple in Palakkad. Her parents nurtured her talent by teaching her more ragas. When she was two and a half years old, she was able to identify about 75 Carnatic ragas. In those days, just to examine her talents, her father used to mix up Carnatic swaras, but Mahathi unfailingly identified any particular raga. When she was three years old, she came to Chennai with her mother for the December Music Season (1988). At the performance of Mandolin U Shrinivas at the Mylapore Fine Arts, Mahathi kept identifying the ragas played by the musicians on stage. The Sabha secretary, who was sitting next to her mother, prepared for a LIVE presentation of the child's talents soon after the main item of the concert. Mahathi, without the smallest doubt, identified all the ragas played by Mandolin U Shrinivas and Violinist Kum Kanyakumari and enthralled the audience. This event appeared in all the leading newspapers at that time.