VL Kumar

V L Kumar was born in a musically talented family. His father late. Shri. V. L. Vedagiri, a Violin mastero of the yester years initiated him music at a very tender age. He then joined the Music College, Chennai., and was under the tutelage of Sangita Acharya Shri. M.S. Anantha Raman and Shri. T.N. KRISHNAN. Kumar then went to music Academy joined the TEARCHR`S TRAINIG COURSE under SHRI SANDHYAVANDANAM S. SRINIVASARAO AND Shri D.K.Jayaraman (vocal music) He completed the course 'Praveena' at Tirupathy S .V. MUSIC COLLAGE under Shri.DWARAM Sathyanarayana and Shri.Tirupathy Ponnarao. In the year 1983, he bagged the First prize in the "All India Radio" Music competitions. His journey started off as a performer never to look back. He has accompanied artists of great repute past and present - to name a few Dr. Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer, Dr.Madurai Somu, Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna, Padmabushan T.V. Shankar Narayanan, Padmabushan T.N. Seshagopalan, Dr. K.J.Yesudas, Dr.N.Ramani, Kadri Gopalnath, Mandolin U.Srinivas, S.Sashank, and so on.