Alamelu Mani
Alamelu Mani is an Indian Carnatic vocalist and music teacher from Mumbai, India. She is the mother of singer Hariharan. In 2018 she received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Carnatic music.
Biography
Alamelu Mani was born on 4 October 1934, at Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her father, Varadhan, was a harmonium player. Hariharan, an Indian playback singer is her only son.Musical career
Alamelu was given her first music lessons by her grandmother when she was three years old. At the age of ten she started studying Carnatic music under H.A.S. Mani, whom she later married. Her studies were interrupted when Mani died when she was 28, but a year later, she resumed her studies with T. Brinda, a follower of the Devadasi tradition of Carnatic music, T. Muktha and Tanjavur V. Sankara Iyer.In Carnatic music, she is an exponent in Padams and Javalis. Alamelu is an A Grade artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan.
As a Carnatic music teacher, Alamelu has taught over 1,000 students from around the world. Since 1963, she serves as the principal of the South Indian School of Music in Mumbai, founded by her husband H.A.S. Mani.