{"id":33980,"date":"2025-03-27T18:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/?p=33980"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:32:20","slug":"veteran-musician-sri-ushakanth-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/2025\/03\/27\/veteran-musician-sri-ushakanth-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran musician Sri Ushakanth passes away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33981\" src=\"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sri-Ushakanth-261x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hyderabad, March 2025<\/strong>: <strong>Sri Ushakanth<\/strong>, a legendary musician and iconic figure in Hyderabad&#8217;s cultural landscape, passed away today at 12:40 pm. A multifaceted talent, he excelled as a lyricist, singer, composer, and music director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Musical Legacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Ushakanth&#8217;s impressive repertoire includes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Musical ballets: Sri Datta Gadha, Kalyana Ramam, Geetha Govindam, Aandal Kalyanam, and Sapta Chala Sankeerthanam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; TTD projects: Palikedidi Bhagavatamata<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Acclaimed musical album: Chilaka Palukulu (Telugu Nursery Rhymes)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Awards and Recognition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Ushakanth received numerous prestigious awards, including:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Ghantasala Award (2003)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; National Awards for SIVA Ganga (Musical Ballet) and CHALO-DELHI (Children&#8217;s Film)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Ushakanth is survived by:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Son Dr. Sreekanth, a senior consultant at Apollo Hospitals and singer-composer;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Daughter-in-law Dr. Suseela, a doctor and dancer;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Son-in-law Mr. Sunder Lakshman, Vice President of Mahathi&#8217;s Music Academy;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Daughter Smt. Radhika Lakshman, an accomplished singer;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Granddaughter Ms. Rohini, IT consultant, dancer, and singer and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Grandson Sreenigam, a budding doctor and singer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final rites of Sri Ushakanth will be performed at Mahaprasthanam, Jubilee Hills, on Wednesday, March 26, morning.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad, March 2025: Sri Ushakanth, a legendary musician and iconic figure in Hyderabad&#8217;s cultural landscape, passed away today at 12:40 pm. A multifaceted talent, he excelled as a lyricist, singer, composer, and music director. Musical Legacy Sri Ushakanth&#8217;s impressive repertoire includes: &#8211; Musical ballets: Sri Datta Gadha, Kalyana Ramam, Geetha Govindam, Aandal Kalyanam, and Sapta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":106422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}