Visakhapatnam - AIR music awards presented

There was a lone winner from Visakhapatnam, none from Telangana. It was the day of young musicians at the small auditorium of Potti Sriramulu Telugu University as they performed their prize winning recitals on Friday afternoon in the city. Later, these winners in various categories of All India Radio Music Competition-2016 were honoured at the event by Mahabhashyam Chitharanjan. Surprisingly at the day’s event, where 15 winners were honoured, Hyderabad didn’t find representation in any category. Most of the winners were from Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Thrissur, Bengaluru and a lone winner from Visakhapatnam.

“I am a first generation musician. Nobody in my family is into music professionally. My aim is to continue the sadhana (practice) and continue to do what I love doing,” said S. Sayee Rakshith, who won the first prize in violin recital. In the preliminary round over 1,000 youngsters participated in 38 categories for Hindustani, Carnatic and Western Classical music and only 67 were named winners. The AIR Music Competition is one of the oldest talent scouting event in the country which began in 1955. Many of the well-known singers in the country came into prominence through similar talent search events.