![]() In Madras, Gopalnath came in contact with the mridangist T.V. Gopalnath learned to play the instrument under Gopalkrishna Iyer of Kalaniketana, Mangalore. So successful was this adaptation that the great musician Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, the doyen of Carnatic music, acknowledged Kadri Gopalnath as a true Carnatic music genius. Gopalnath had to make certain modifications to the conventional alto saxophone to play Carnatic music. It took him nearly 20 years to conquer the complex western wind instrument, and he was eventually crowned as the "Saxophone Chakravarthy". Upon hearing the vibrant tone of the saxophone, Gopalnath decided to master it. As a child, Gopalnath once saw the saxophone being played in the Mysore Palace band set. He acquired a taste for music from his father Thaniappa, a nadaswaram vidwan. Kadri Gopalnath was born in 1949 in Mangalore to Thaniappa and Gangamma. ![]() ![]() Kadri Gopalnath (11 December 1949 – 11 October 2019) was an Indian saxophonist and one of the pioneers of Carnatic music on the saxophone. ![]()
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