1. Balabhaskar Chandran was an Indian musician, violinist, composer and record producer.
16 Facts About Balabhaskar
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Balabhaskar is best known for promoting fusion music in South India.
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Balabhaskar began his professional career at the age of 12.
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Balabhaskar made his debut as a music director by composing the soundtrack for the Malayalam-language film Mangalya Pallakku, and was the youngest music composer to have worked in the industry at the age of 17.
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Balabhaskar had won the Bismillah Khan Yuva Sangeetkaar Puraskaar in 2008 by Kendra Sangeet Natak Academy for Instrumental Music.
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Balabhaskar was a child prodigy and started doing stage shows at 12.
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Balabhaskar became the youngest music director in the Malayalam film industry when he composed for the movie Mangalya Pallak at 17.
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Balabhaskar was exceptionally versed in Carnatic music and hence was an exponent of the same.
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Balabhaskar has performed with many noted musicians and instrumentalists in India and abroad, including Ustad Zakir Hussain, Sivamani, Louis Banks, Vikku Vinayakram, Fetty Wap, Hariharan, Mattannoor Sankarankutty, Ranjit Barot, Fazal Qureshi, and so on.
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Balabhaskar performed with his guru and uncle Shri B Sasikumar, as violin duo in Carnatic concerts.
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Balabhaskar brought out a collection of soothing Carnatic Keertanas colored in his style, lending it an international flavor.
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Balabhaskar was married to his longtime girlfriend Lakshmi on 18 November 2000.
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Balabhaskar sustained multiple injuries due to a car accident which occurred at Pallippuram on the NH-66 in the early hours of 25 September 2018, which injured his wife and killed their daughter, and was admitted to the Ananthapuri Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, following which two surgeries were done.
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Balabhaskar's condition was improving while continuing on life support, but he died suddenly of cardiac arrest on 2 October 2018.
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Balabhaskar was the recipient of the Bismillah Khan Yuva Sangeetkaar Puraskaar in 2008 by Kendra Sangeet Natak Academy for Instrumental Music.
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Apart from his concerts and stage shows, Balabhaskar gave music to ad films, movies, tele-serial titles and albums in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit languages.