Naveen Namboodiri

Naveen Namboodiri comes from a musically inclined family of north Kerala. A trained Carnatic singer, Naveen has performed in some 700 concerts across India, France and Italy. Naveen has been accompanied in his concerts by the who's who of Carnatic music, including mridangam maestro Dr T K Murthy, tabla maestros Bikram Ghosh and Tanmoy Bose (for a Carnatic-Hindustani jugalbandhi) J Vaidyanathan, Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair and Thiruvananthapuram Surendran. In the year 2000, Naveen won the prestigious Yuva Sangeetha Sudharnava Award for the best upcoming Carnatic classical singer in Kerala. Naveen has also sung playback for a Malayalam film, titled Panchapandavar. The music for this film was composed by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboodiri.

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