Saroja excels in presenting the melodic structure in all its entirety, delineating the mood in the essential passages, with a variant, giving it a distinctive stamp. The ease with which Saroja handles the 19 frets, moving them to make minute adjustments and then working on 22 sympathetic strings while strumming the madhyama string, speaks volumes of her proficiency. Kumar, Anu Malik, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Karthick Raja, Devi Sri Prasad, Harris Jayaraj, Hamsalekha, Keeravani, Shankar Ganesh, Chandrabose, Upendra Kumar, Dina and Gibran. Speaking of recordings, she had the privilege of recording with M.S. A bit of Pop style on dilruba was quite an innovation. There were 38 of them and she was able to bring out folk style tunes on tharshehnai and dilruba. ![]() In 2008, Saroja had performed with Paul Jacob’s Sangamam in China. The 12-member orchestra which performed Ramayana at the U.S. ![]() It was indeed a great comeback for the ancient instrument. and in Europe with composer Hans Vermeerch. In 1995, she performed with the Belgium Orchestra in the U.S. All followed in quick succession which gave her a chance to play her instrument to the hilt. Ideally suited to express pathos, dilruba found happy use in the hands of A.R. ![]() She is perhaps the only solo recording artiste operating on the instrument that has a near soprano human voice and is often used as an accompaniment. Shanmugam and grand daughter of Vellasamy, Saroja has been practising the instrument for the past 35 years. Saroja could well be one of the few artistes playing the dilruba.
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