Kruthi Bhat

Kruthi Bhat is a Carnatic vocalist from a family of musicians. Her grandmother, Smt. Krishnaveni, introduced her to Carnatic music, and she trained under her mother, Vidushi Rajarajeshwary Bhat, and her uncle, violinist Vidwan Vittal Ramamurthy; she also learned from Padma Bhushan Lalgudi G. Jayaraman and T. R. Subramanyan, and has studied with Neyveli Santhanagopalan, S. Sowmya, Abhishek Raghuram and Kalyani Sharma. Sruti magazine describes her as an A-grade artist of All India Radio who was promoted directly to that grade. She is the youngest recipient of the title Kala Ratna from the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana Committee, and her other honours include Isai Chudar from Karthik Fine Arts in Chennai, Yuva Kala Mani from the Mani Krishna Swamy Academy, the Best Female Vocalist award in the Madras Music Academy's Spirit of Youth series (2015), the Best Vocalist award from Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha in Chennai (2013) and the Carnatic Music Idol USA title on Jaya TV (2013). Sruti magazine also named her one of its Top 5 Voices for the Future. A computer science graduate, she also plays Carnatic and Western violin and has trained in Bharatanatyam.