Comments on: Krishna Nee Begane Baaro

By: The American who sang South Indian classical music | Likhati

The American who sang South Indian classical music | Likhati — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:54:43 +0000

[...] of Higgins singing this outside the Udupi Krishna Temple, because he wasn’t allowed inside here,-the story has a happy [...]

By: Uttara

Uttara — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:57:41 +0000

Kulkarniji thanks for the download, am having trouble getting it at the moment-think its my browser. Yes, very few people have managed to sing it in a soul stirring way!

By: Kulkarni

Kulkarni — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:28:07 +0000

Krishna Nee Begane is indeed a pretty hyped up song.In CM circles.
Thanks to , T Balasaraswathi,KVNarayanswamy and Higgins.
Almost everyone I have heard , fail miserably in bringing out the spirit of this song.
Well almost everybody.

T Viswanathan in his concert for the Music Academy , plays a version
that would make the early risers in the concert hall, stay glued to their seats .
Listen to the alapana and one does not realise when exactly he has started the song.
makes you float.
http://www.mediafire.com/?knwazybvg2e

and more recently
Rajesh Vaidya in his album for sagarmusic titled Silken Strings

http://sagarmusicindia.com/sagarcassettes.htm

He has played a fusion version too , which is a poor effort.
But this track is a real beauty.

BTW the singer for the famous Doordarshan Video by Bala had got the lyrics wrong ,too…
Baro … the song keeps rhyming and the singer ends up singing
Thayige Bayalli jagavanne Toro ( show me the universe in your mouth) to rhyme with it.

Whereas it should have been Bayalli Torida ( hey you come.. the one who showed the Universe in your mouth).

By: Kanakadasa and Udupi « Punarjanman

Kanakadasa and Udupi « Punarjanman — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:42:32 +0000

[...] for Kanakadasa mentioned in the story about Jon Higgins and the Udupi Krishna temple I mentioned here. I agree with her-it is something that has been playing at the back of my mind. Wikipedia (in anote [...]

By: varali

varali — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:18:56 +0000

In a way the story also makes me sad – why didn’t they let Kanakadasa in? I feel sure his singing would have been no less mesmerising than Higgins’. Of course that happened at a different time, when customs were perhaps more rigid. But we sometimes treat foreigners better than our own people, don’t we?

Very true V, that’s what I thought too, why didn’t they let him in? Apparently there is a story about Kanakadasa too, and how the idol turned to face him or something-I wonder why after they say that happened they STILL didn’t let people in.