Untimely exits
Updated On: 11 September, 2009 08:58 AM IST | | SR Ramakrishna
Four young people I knew died recently.
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Four young people I knew died recently. One was famous, the second was well known in artistic circles (and on the threshold of bigger fame), and the third was too busy enjoying life to bother about fame, or even good health. The fourth was as unlucky as the other three, although she didn't belong in the same class.
Raju Ananthaswamy had acquired a well-deserved reputation as a star singer and composer. I first saw him when he was a schoolboy, and even at that young age, he could sing with amazing sweetness. As he grew up, he performed on stage and TV, becoming a big name in Kannada music. He had his inconsistencies, but I haven't heard another sugama sangeeta singer who could compose such complicated stuff and pull it off so effortlessly. He had been in and out of hospital with a liver problem, and suddenly, one day, news broke on TV that he had died. He was just 37.
Raju Ananthaswamy had acquired a well-deserved reputation as a star singer and composer. I first saw him when he was a schoolboy, and even at that young age, he could sing with amazing sweetness. As he grew up, he performed on stage and TV, becoming a big name in Kannada music. He had his inconsistencies, but I haven't heard another sugama sangeeta singer who could compose such complicated stuff and pull it off so effortlessly. He had been in and out of hospital with a liver problem, and suddenly, one day, news broke on TV that he had died. He was just 37.
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