Inspiring Musician - Perumal, Flute Artist

                Lit the Light team is immensely delighted in introducing Mr.Perumal who is a flute artist ,who hails from Rasipuram ,Namakkal and visually challenged by birth . As a 6 year old child he was handed over a flute during a temple festival and Mr.Perumal out of his playfulness like Krishna grew up to become a flute artist . He graduated in carnatic vocal music from a regular music college and works as a part time music teacher in Government college in Rasipuram. He teaches social awareness songs of Bharathiyar and loves Hindustani and Carnatic music. He spends more time listening and not many hours are put to practicing due to his job. He loves listening to to Chinmayi and Shreya Goshal for gazals . The teacher inside him speaks that "Bhavam" is very important for music and Notes is helpful only while learning and he emphasizes that manodharmam should be established.
            Lit the light  is happy to hear that Perumal never loses confidence and is always a happy person. His favorite artists are Shri.Ramani on Flute , Shri.Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Shri.Ronumajumdar. On Vocals his favourite artists are Shri.T.V.Sankaranarayan, Shri. T.N.Seshan and Shri. Maharajapuram Santhanam and many others. He vibes with Vanaroopini raaga in Carnatic which is a Janyaraagam from the 72 melakarta raagams.
           When LTL asked him how he mastered the fingering techniques, he expressed a great sense of joy on the technical question and said it was natural for him and overjoyed when he had positive comments from a few people whom he requested to check his fingering techniques. He feels GOD taught him and it comes to him.
           When LTL asked about his musical journey, he said that temple programs start by 10 p.m in the night and go until 1 a.m in the morning and initially he used to get very upset and disturbed because he lost his sleep. When LTL asked him to share his dreams, he expressed two wishes . One is, he wants to play in a studio and he is never given a chance since he is a VC, though without notes he can still understand from the key board sequence . Another wish is to buy a device named Victor reader which is available in website humanware.com and he describes that it’s a Canadian product  and the website has accessible devices for visually impaired and it’s a combination of Technology and Music.
           He explains more by specifying about Daisy (Digital Access Information System) which when subscribed in Bookshare as a member, any Visually challenged can be provided access to a wide variety of knowledge. Living in a small place Rasipuram, Perumal hooks himself into Youtube from his Nokia E5 mobile where he uses browser screen reader and able to understand the nuances of the music he loves, plays and lives for.
          Sruthilaya group in Mylapore provides him an opportunity to play in stage shows and he has played flute in over 1000 programs since he started playing back in the year 2000. It was so melodious to listen to Katrinale Varum Keethame’,’Yenthan Kannainai parayo’ from his flute. He says his purpose of birth will be served if he meets Hari Prasad Chaurasai once in his life time. 
          LTL team wishes him to reach glorious heights in his musical career and expresses our heartfelt thanks for his time and Mr. Perumal concludes his conversation with us by thanking us and inviting us for his next orchestral program which he will communicate with us shortly through Facebook and Whats app.

Listen to his mesmerizing rendition:

Article by Anita