Rajkumar Bharathi

Rajkumar Bharathi is a classical singer and composer from India. He is the great-grandson of the renaissance poet Subramanya Bharathi. Rajkumar is an Electronics and telecommunications engineer graduated from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai. Rajkumar Bharathi a native of Chennai stands today as one of the most popular artists of his generation. He has also got a great following in the Indian state of Karnataka owing to his pleasing style of rendering Dasara Padagalu.

Music training Rajkumar Bharathi was introduced to music by his mother Lalitha Bharathi at the age of 5. He was also trained later under the tutelage of classical musicians like Valliyur Gurumurthy, M. Balamuralikrishna and T. V. Gopalakrishnan. By the instructions of his master T. V. Gopalakrishna, Rajkumar decided to quit his job in an R&D division and devote his time for classical music. He has sung in films – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit and Tulu and was the leading Indian singer along with Sharon Rose the widely respected Black American singer in the adventurous venture, the Asian Mafia – a daring interplay between Indian and Pop style singers.

Awards Rajkumar Bharathi has been honored by several Awards. A few of them are listed below. Outstanding Young Person Award by the Rotary Club of South Madras.

He has composed the title music and the background music for the tele-serial 'Ramana Oli' depicting the life history of Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi. This was telecast in the Indian TV Channel for about 14 weeks. He has done many music compositions for Rangoli productions a foundation for Arts and Culture. Some of his compositions are listed below. Anubhava (1994) Creation Myth (1995) Mustard Seeds (1996) Soorya Kanti (1997) Sacred Geometry (2002) Patanjali (2008)

He has also composed music for dance ballets like Angahara Dance Ensemble – LA, USA Panchatantra – Folk tales From Kerala – Based on the compositions of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal. Indian Performing Arts, MA, USA Gotha – based on the life of Saint Andal. Srishti Dance Company – UK Holy Chakras – Thematic presentation about Shrichakra and the Yantras. Vipanchi Dance School, India and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London Kadirkama Kuravanji – Based on the compositions of the late Maha Vidwan Veeramani Iyer of Sri Lanka RASA Dance School, India Bharathi Kanda Sakthi – Based on Bharathi's songs, Goddess Sakthi, Ramana Maharishi. Vaishnavi Dance Academy – TX, USA Kuttrala Kuravanji – based on Lord Muruga's marriage. SruthiLaya – TX, USA Great Kings of India

His musical compositions for Savitha Sastry's dance theatre productions have also met with critical and popular acclaim. These are Music Within (2010) Soul Cages (2012) Yudh (2013) The Prophet (2013) Chains: Love Stories of Shadows (2015) In God's Country (2015) The Descent (2019) Awakening (2019) The Colors Trilogy (2020–21)

He was nominated for the prestigious Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composing Music for Creation Myth, a dance ballet for the UCLA Centre for Performing Arts (University of California, LA, USA) in 1995.