Sai Shravanam | |
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Born | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | 25 June 1981
Occupation(s) | Record producer, audio engineer, musician |
Website | saishravanam |
Sai Shravanam is an Indian music producer, recording and scoring engineer. He is a self trained tabla player [1] and one of the few classically trained sound engineers in the country.[2] He is the owner and founder of Resound India in the city of Chennai.[3]
As a child music prodigy and ardent devotee of Sathya Sai Baba, Sai Shravanam showed signs of great talent from the tender age of six.[4] While he was watching a TV commercial for tea featuring tabla wizard of Ustad Zakir Hussain creating magical notes, Sai Shravanam imprinted those notes in his mind. The impact of it was so profound that his parents got him his first tabla set. Four years later, he was spotted by maestro Zakir Hussain. Early percussion lessons from Hussain and his brother Fazal Quereshi showcased his talent and got him the opportunity to work in various cross cultural and experimental music endeavours with composers and artists.[5]
He is considered by the Times of India[6] to be a rare engineer who has dedicated his career towards concentrating on recording, archiving and producing classical Indian music. Since 2004, Sai has been an active musician, sound engineer[7] and producer for various film projects, classical music albums, documentary films, and dance theatre productions. In the Indian film industry, Sai has performed exclusively for the legendary music composer A.R. Rahman, both in his soundtracks as well as live performances.