


Sooryagayathri’s father PV Anilkumar, who is a ‘mridangam’ artist himself, often accompanies his daughter on stage during the two-hour long concerts. It must seem strange that she has conducted only less than 15 singing programmes in her home state Kerala. Besides, the teenager has held concerts at countries like Dubai, Singapore, South Africa and Trinidad. Sooryagayathri has already held more than 300 bhajan nights in almost all the states around the country. However, millions of admirers of devotional songs and bhajans, who reside outside Kerala, know this young singer very well. So chances are meager that those who believe that new talents are created on stages like these would have heard the name Sooryagayathri. The teenager refrains from participating in the school youth festivals as well. You may not have seen Sooryagayathri in any of the popular reality TV shows, neither has she performed in any award nights/stage shows. Her neighbours and people in the locality too are unaware that this girl is hailed by many as the ‘junior MS’. Sooryagayathri is a class-8 student at the Purameri Kadathanattu Raja’s Higher Secondary School, and most of her classmates hardly know that she is a well-known singer who has admirers from all over the country.
