Shankar Mahadevan
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Hailing from Chembur in Mumbai and rooted in a Tamil Iyer Brahmin family originally from Kerala, he began studying Hindustani and Carnatic traditions as a child, took up the veena at five under Shri Lalitha Venkataraman, and later refined his skills with Pandit Shrinivas Khale and T.R. Balamani. After earning a computer-science degree in 1988 and working as a software engineer, he turned to music,…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources