years_active notable_instruments birth_place background birth_date instrument genre image article_title name occupation
1975-current venu , flute thalainayar , tamil nadu , india non_vocal_instrumentalist 19 september 1957 venu , flute carnatic classical music , film score frameless t. n. sivakumar
 t.n.sivakumar flutist
t. n. sivakumar

thalainayar narayanaswamy sivakumar -lrb- t. n. sivakumar -rrb- -lrb- -rrb- , -lrb- -rrb- is a visually challenged carnatic flutist guru from chennai .
he is a disciple of sri t. r. mahalingam .
he has performed in various cultural concerts across the globe.he was told by kanchi paramacharyar h.h.chandrashekara saraswathy that he would be leading the rest of his life with a bamboo stick ; -lrb- south indian bamboo flute venu -rrb- .
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sivakumar lost his father at an early age and was brought up by his mother .
his mother was very well versed in carnatic music who was his first teacher .
sri.sivakumar started learning vocal music from his mother and started learning the flute from the age of seventeen .
he started learning many songs just by listening to the radio .
she contributed a lot by taking her visually challenged son everywhere to learn music taught him to play songs in a particular style .
he mastered many songs composed in a way his mother sang .
