unni sowmya Part 2

Dear friends,
Sri. Yugi Sethu, the cine artist, during one of his talk shows with Sri. Unni krishnan in Vijay TV 8 or 9 years ago, referred Unni's voice as Velvet voice. Without any least hesitation, i also subscribe to his view. All the songs that he rendered in this concert were in keeping with the mellow nature of his voice.

Unni began his concert with the famous Tamil song of the great Divine poet Papanasam Sivan in the varali ragam KAA VAA VAA, made extremely popular by the one and the only Madurai Mani Iyer.

The inherent sympathetic tone of his voice pleaded Muruga to come. Very nice to hear. This kind of worship is called Daasyam-The servant pleading God to show grace. But it appears to me that the poet was rather worshipping Muruga by Sneham-friendship- and is demanding Muruga to come. Has MMI or TVS essayed the poet's feeling better than Unni? Or is it because of the "Gambeeram" in their voices? Even though Unni has done best, I want your opinion.

I have not heard this Krithi of Annamacharya before and this song in Lalitha instantly enticed me.

Devi neeye thunai in Kirvani was appealing. I had heard Unni telling audience once that this was his favourite raga. He has also given an excellent one hour cassette in this raga with charsur digital work station. The neraval Alaimagal kalaimagal was not good and I felt that he was unnecessarily biting these words.

Jaya TV choked his voice, intervening with unnecessary comments when he started singing on Lord Nataraja, depriving listeners from hearing one more good song? When will Jaya TV get corrected in this aspect?

A special request to Unni: Has any body threatened you with dire conquences, if you open your mouth more than one inch? When you were a judge in Asianet's Idea Star Singer,I heard you telling many contestants to open their mouth and sing, so that the power of their voice would become explicit. Just two days back, Your friends, the famous cine play back singers, K.Chitra and Subha asked a girl, who muffled her voice,to open her mouth a little bit, so that her voice could be powerful. And the result was rewarding. Please consider, as this will add further lustre to your voice and singing.

With Love
SR