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Mr. V.B. Madhusudhanan was born in Chennai on 26.9.1965, as a son to Mr. Velpure Bhaskara Dasan and Mrs. Shenbagavalli. He started learning to play on the Mirudangam at the early age of 7, under the guidance of Mr. Harihara sharma, the founder of "Jaya Ganesha Thala Vidyala" Father of Mr. T.H.Vinayagaram the famous Gadam vidhwan.
Mr. Madhu had participated on many stages as a mirudangist at that tender age. When he was 12yrs old he played the mirudangam in the presence of the Honourable Governor Mr. K.K.Shah and was selected as the first student. At a very young age he participated in many camatic, devotional and even cine programs. He learnt to play the Bango a foreign instrunment, from Navarags Sridhar. More over he started participating in stage programs playing as many instruments, as he could, for light music programs. Later on he learnt to play the table under the guidance of Mr. A.Lakshmanrao and later under the guidance of Ustad Mr. Ahmed Hussian Khan (sitar).
In 1981 he joined the Govt Music college Chennai, and underwent a training of 3 yrs for the Title of Vadyavisharadha and came out with flying colours as a first class student. He was awarded by the hands of Dr. M.G.Ramachandran the then Chief Minister of Tamilnadu in 1983.
 To follow this, he learnt Mirudangam to improve himself more, from the India's most eminent Personality Guruji Thiru. Karaikudi Mani (Mirundanga Vidhwan) and he has played in his "Shruthilaya" Group on many Stages around India and also abroad, with the blessings of his Guru. He is a B. High Grade Artist in the All India Radio, for Mirudangam, Tabla, and Dolki.
Santhakumari
 Born in Erode of Tamilnadu Ms. Santhakumari initiated her dance and music classes at a very early age of 4 years. Staged quite a lot of dance programs alongwith her sister. She did her schooling upto higher secondary and graduated in Hindi. She also mastered Harmonium, veena and mirudangam too.
Her arangetram (maiden stage dance performance) was at the age of 9, at Salem Nehru Cultural Hall, In 1983, she got admitted to the Tamilnadu Music College for Natya visharadh/ Aadal Kalaimani Diploma Courses, and was fortunate enough to be awarded diploma by the golden hands of the then Tamilnadu Chief Minister Shri MGR.
She got wedded to Tabla Vidwan Shri Madhu in the year 1990. In 1994, took the career of Nathuvangam Master in Kalapeedam. She has trained a lot of students in her dedicated career as an Art teacher.
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HIS OUSTANDING DEVOTIONAL PERFORMANCE ON STAGE WITH:
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 Thiru C.S. Jayaraman, Thiru. Pithukli Murugadas, Thiru.T.M. Soundararajan, Thiru. Veeramani and his sons Sri. Kannan and Sri. Raju, Thiru. Purasai Arunagiri, Mrs. Ragumairaman, Sri. T.L. Maharajan, Sri. Veeramani Dasan, Sri. Sakthi Dasan, Sri.Unni Krishnan.
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HIS PERFORMANCE IN RECORDING AND TELE FOR:
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 Thirumathi. M.S. Subbulakshmi, Bombay Sisters, Sudha Raguntahan, Sowmya, Anuradha Shriram, Nithyashri Mahadevan, Priya Sisters and Mahanadhi Shobana. Dr. Balamurali Krishna. Seerkali Govidarajan, and his son Siva Chidambaram, Sesha Gopalan, Rajkumar Bharathi, S.P.Balasubramaniam, K.J.Yesudoss, Unni Menon, Unni Krishnan. Lalgudi Jayaraman, Kunnakudi Vaidyanthan, Veenai Gayathri, Rajesh Vaidhya, Purushothaman Sai, Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Manickavinayagam, L.Vydhi, Dakshanamoorthy, L.Krishnan, Kadri Gopalanath, Vilolin Narmadha.
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LIGHT MUSIC STAGE PROGRAMS:
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 Sridhar's Navaraks, Raguraj Chakravarthi, In Telugu, Manisharma and Devi Shri Prasath and also, in these concerts he has played for many famous singers such as S.P. Balasubramaniam, Mano, Malaysia Vasudevan, T.M. Soundararajan, P.B. Shrinivas, Thippu, Karthick, Unnikrishnan, Unnimenon, Vijay Yesudoss, S.P. Charan, Yugendran, Krishnaraj, Suseela, S. Janaki, Chitra, Vanijayaram, Jensi, L.R. Eswari, Anuradha shriram, Harini, Saindavi, Mahadhi, Madhangi, Chinmai, Shylaja, Pop Shalini, Malathi.
He has formed his own Music troupe of senior and junior singers and players, under the banner of "MADHU'S VISWARAG" and "MADHU'S LITTLE MASTERS".
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PERFORMANCE IN FILMS:
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M.S. Viswnathan Ramamoorthy, Illayaraja, S.P. Venkatesh, V. Kumar, Vijaya Baskar, Ravindran, Manisharma, Devi Shri Prasath, Deva, Shrikanth Deva, Sabesh Murali, Sarathi, and Deena, Barathwaj, Chalapathirao, A.T. Umar, Shaker Ganesh Karthik, Youvan Shankar Raja, Thaman, and all lastet music directors are some of the cine music directors whom Madhu has worked with in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Canada, Gujarati, Oriya and Bengali Flims.
HIS ACHIEVEMENT AND AWARDS; He is running a school by the name "BHARATH SANGEETH NIKETAN", to train children in the field of music.
AWARDS;
1. Vadya Visharadha -1983 ; Given by Dr. M.G.Ramachandran
2. Nirthyothaya by Dr. Padma Subramaniyam
3. Best Percussuonist by Sruthi Laya Kendra
4. Jaishree Award by S.P. Ramanan
5. Asthana Vidwan by Jagadguru Sri Sankaracharya Swamigal.
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HIS CREDIT TO DANCE IN LIVE AND RECORDING:
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The great dancer Padmasubramaniam, Dananjeyan Santha, Chitra Visveshwaran, Narasimhachari Vasantha Lakshmi, Rajasulokshana, Shri Priya, Thanjai Arunachalam, Ambika Kameshwaran, and Krishnasamy Associates, and associated Thirumathi. M.L.Vasanthakumari At Rishi Valley.
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