Ganesh Kumaresh Rocks!!

Ganesh and Kumaresh are my all time favorites.. Dunno why..

There was a time when my mother tried her level best to make me learn music. She used to take music lessons for the neighbourhood girls. She will force me to sit down for music lessons.. I on the other hand wait for an opportunity to run away.. Being a South Indian - Tam Bram to be precise, it is only natural that you end up learning one of the artforms! so I was no exception.. to me they were torture sessions.. until I started listening to Ganesh Kumareh's violin..

I never took to music.. maybe I never had the passion. But my parents were avid musicians, not that they were professionals, they were both good in music. You can say I dissappointed them by not being an active musician!!!

Ganesh Kumaresh's music came quite early in my life. My mom used to say that I loved Thiratha vilyatu pillai and Chinanjiru kilye kanamma rendered by the Brothers while I was a small girl. Infact that was a lullaby for me.. Cool!!!

As I grew up, I realised I never really enjoyed the music rendered by others. Dad took me to other concerts, my neighbours took me to kutcheris during the December music festival, but I pestered them to take me back home. But with Ganesh and Kumaresh it was different.
Everytime I listen to them , they surprise me with their music. Mebbe thats why I am never bored with their music.

Maybe it is the difference between a Karan Johar and a Mani Rathnam movie

Ganesh and Kumaresh to me are legends.... I 've heard many stories about the brothers, in the process also learnt they never had a Godfather , their principles it seems invited the warth of Sabha Secrataries who boycotted them during the music seasons at one point.

So it is not by luck, it's not by somebodies help... It is only Mahaperiyavas anugraha and their sheer dedication and hard work that have seen them through the many obstacles paved by many

To me their music is unparalled, why because when they play music, they don't take a conscious effort to please the audience.. at any point when they play, they are completely engrossed with the superior power. One can see that when they close their eyes and play the music. When Ganesh plays Ragam, one can experience goose pimples and when Kumaresh plays one is transported to a different plane . This is because for Ganesh and Kumaresh playing before an audience is not entertainment, it is Dyanam - meditation

It is Bhakthi Marga I see , I experience when I hear them play.. I have been listening to them for the past 25 years and even today when I hear them plan I cry...coz they touch me with their music, transport to me a spiritual plance which I have not experienced with any other musician!!!

I maybe prejudiced.. but I know I am right.. May their music spread and touch the hearts of billions just the way it has touched mine

Glory be to them!!!