page_title: U. Rajesh
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: U. Rajesh / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Mandolin U Rajesh And His Wife Harsha Sathasivom
context_page_description: Uppalapu Rajesh is an Indian mandolin player in Carnatic classical music, a music producer and a composer.
context_section_description: U.Rajesh was born on 17 May 1977 at Palakol, Andhra Pradesh, as the youngest child of U.Satyanarayana (father) and Kantham (mother). He is the younger brother of late U.Srinivas, a notable mandolin player in Carnatic classical music, in India.
  In his childhood, his father and brother were his tutors in music. He started playing carnatic classical music on mandolin at the age of 6, and performed his first concert, at Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham in the presence of Shri. Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi.
  He and his brother have performed in concerts together, and have released musical albums together. He is one of the directors of the music school, Srinivas Institute of World Music (SIOWM, named after U.Srinivas), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, which is providing free musical tuition to the students.
caption: Mandolin U Rajesh And Harsha Sathasivom
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