The violin that sings the Indian way | Ragini Shankar | TEDxGCEK
Ever heard a violin sing?
Ragini Shankar began her training in Hindustani (North Indian) Classical Music on the Violin at the tender age of 4. She has also excelled in her academics being a top-ranker in Mechanical Engineering and also holds a Masters' degree in Music. She has performed in many prestigious music festivals all across India like the 'Sawai Gandharva'. Apart from having appeared on many platforms all over the country, she has also performed abroad extensively in countries like USA, Canada, and the UK. She is a part of renowned Bollywood lyricist Irshad Kamil's ‘The Ink Band'. Her recent collaboration includes 'strings', fusion band which gives a grand new majestic sound to popular Indian tunes. She has been conferred with the 'Jashn-e-Youngistan' award by the Vice-President of India. Ragini Shankar began her training in Hindustani (North Indian) Classical Music on the Violin at the tender age of 4. She has also excelled in her academics being a top-ranked in Mechanical Engineering and also holds a Masters’ degree in Music. She has performed in many prestigious music festivals all across India like the 'Sawai Gandharva'. Apart from having appeared on many platforms all over the country, she has also performed abroad extensively in countries like USA, Canada, UK. She is a part of renowned Bollywood lyricist Irshad Kamil’s ‘The Ink Band’. Her recent collaboration includes ‘strings’, fusion band which gives a grand new majestic sound to popular Indian tunes. She has been conferred with the ‘Jaya Smriti’ presented by film actress and dancer, Hema Malini, 2012. Also, she has been awarded with the ‘Jashn-e-Youngistan’ award by the Vice-President of India for Indian Classical music in 2018 This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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I had an opportunity to watch her Violin playing at Isha Coimbatore for 2020 Mahasivaratri celebration. She played violin fantastically and i believe everyone ( Approx.2 lakhs crowd )enjoyed by giving huge rounds of claps . Now i see she is a good speaker too. God bless young lady.
@ZENSIBLE
4 жыл бұрын
2 Lakh crowd? Your eyes Definitely failed you. The "Rough" estimate by the Police was 800,000++
@jdmohan51
4 жыл бұрын
@@ZENSIBLE quite possible ...i may be wrong. Huge huge crowd really. Thanks for info dear.
@silvanopovorotti2690
4 жыл бұрын
There was a huge crowd through online broadcast as well.
@BeauInGrace
4 жыл бұрын
Ohhhh was she really the girl playing the glowing light up violin?? I thought her face looks quite familiar in this video 😄😄🙏🏽
@jdmohan51
4 жыл бұрын
@@BeauInGrace yah...that electric Violin and she a superb player.
"Creativity is bringing something beautiful into life that didn't exist before" brilliant quote. Ive become a fan of this genius
She is God gifted girl..beautiful not as for her appearance only but as a human as well...Luv u Ragini🥰
I've been listening to a whole lot of Indian music lately. Mostly fusion and some older instrumental. Wow, what an experience!
Who come after Neelambari
First I was attracted to ragini's classical music in maha shivarathri function with sadguru. She is modern way of music attracted by ordinary common people like me. She talks of creativity, present, awareness and inner being create happiness in others. She is spiritual. Krishna bless her.
I know her since she was in standard 3. From navi Mumbai.
I too heard for the first time her violin performance in the Esha yoga function and felt stunned. It was mesmerising and divine. Yes divine. Again her talk in this video and demonstration was fantastic. Great performance. She is a genius.
MahashiVaRaTri 2020 🔥✌🏻
It feels like she more happy when she playing music.. 😊😊
What matured address just like a professional Classical Teacher or Guru. Very enlightened at her age. She is uniquely creative in her instrumental recital & Equally talented in technical studies also. Thanks for sharing.
proud of you Ragini and your sister, pride of India you are.
Creativity has no bar that is why your violin emits such melody. All the best. Long live. Thanks.
Awesome,,,,,proud of you Ragini
she is a brilliant Violinist and great speaker, she is extraordinary
Love your music
She plays like crazy, just mind-boggling.
She is a special, beautiful soul!
Wow!! Simply superb..No words to describe the feeling that you get when you hear the violin sing a song...💐🌹🌻🍀
Beautiful!
Wow!! o technical but so nicely explained!! Well done Ragini!!
Brilliant, intelligent and Spiritual talk👌👌👌
Beautiful speech
This girl is much ahead of her age and really blessed by Saraswathi. The confidence with which she is speaking is commendable. It's due to indeapth knowledge in classical music and must be appreciated for her demonstration on introducing music on violin to common audience. I foresee this girl is going to write her page in the history with her achievements. May God bless you for everything. Last but not the least pranams to her parents and gurus. Regards,
@dvchauhan35
4 жыл бұрын
Her Guru is legendary Dr. N. Rajam.
She is doing it so effortlessly that appears to be easy. But actually it is not.
My Favorite TedTalk .I studio Yoga in India couple of times in India With Iyengar Family.And also later returned to music just for this reason. Thank-you for your talk, helps alot.
I love you you touch my hearth🥰😍🤩😘
My blessing, you flourish all time with lot of wealth and health
she is phenomenal.....a violin maestro...
Very beautiful presentation
She had -0 stage fear . Thats smooth
Brillant & mind blowing.
Lots of love and Respect from Sri Lanka ...
Wonderful!
You did well in Neelambari music. 👏👏
Super cute voice sister ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇹🇹🇮🇳
You are not only a perfectionist in 🎻 playing but you are an excellent speaker, a teacher and a bperson who can touch 💕. Keep going. Heard you accompany Sandeep Narayan for Isha foundation in the auspicious occasion of Maha Shivaratri 2022..the smile while you play makes your performance more vibrant.
Ragini Mam your music transports my soul to celestial heights❤️🌹🙏
sadguru blessed you on msr 20 ..now u r star...go ahead...
Amazing talent.God bless you, all the best.
🌹🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹💖💖💖Thats Right!!! Music is Life Its Everywhere God Bless you 😍 Completly agree creativity Beautiful Also Healing
@EudoraPrice
3 жыл бұрын
Ms Shankar I notice you dont use chinrest or shoulder rest? Do you give Workshops?
Ragini is beautiful 😊❤️
That was very very cute !!💝👌👌
Excellent and spiritual :)
Lovely....inspiring....Genius....
Thank you🙏
Best violin player
@dvchauhan35
3 жыл бұрын
Best violinist is actually her Grandmother, Dr. N. Rajam.
amazing. so inspiring ...
❤ I wish you a long life
God bless you
Ragini mam 🙏🙏🙏
An heir to Smt. N Rajan,a legend
Amazing....... I like about too much
Lovely talk. Thank u
You're expressing the fine intelligence and creativity that God the Creator has put into you. Getting to know this God of Creation personally will change everything.
wonders of violen, jis ki haat me uska soundarya badta hai,
See 7:53 blessed listening
Dear Violin Maestro, is that sample bit raag that you played is Raag Durga?. Please can you elaborate for one or two hours. I am going crazy to listen to it from your violin. God Bless You.
@dvchauhan35
3 жыл бұрын
Yes Rekha Ji, it is Raag Durga. She was taught violin by her illustrious Grandmother Padma Bhushan Dr. N. Rajam. You can listen to a longer recitation in Raag Durga by Dr. Rajam available on KZread. Back in 2018 a girl Sangeeta Das in Kolkata was made to come out of coma by the music of Dr. Rajam through Raag Darbari Kanada played on the suggestion by one of the doctors......
RAGINI MAM YOUR VOICE IS ALSO MUSIC FOR US ❤️🌹🙏
Excellent 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
You are awesome.....🖤🖤🖤🔥🔥🔥
Beautiful
She is genius
Mind is still a computing centre to manipulate the data of memory that you put in! Music permeates even deeper!
The lady is marvelous but the talk was too technical for morons like me :)
Well done. Could have made the intro shorter
@walkermohanraj3859
4 жыл бұрын
Please give short introduction.
i love her ❤️
Indian musicians are a league apart.
@agnidas5816
4 жыл бұрын
yeah league behind ...
@subramaniamiyer2432
4 жыл бұрын
@@agnidas5816 depends on the perspective.. Maybe your thinking is backwards. Change perspective and the scenario changes. Try it my friend.
Lovely you are a legend
Is the violin also tunned differently than your standard violin tuning?
@silvanopovorotti2690
4 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@AnanthNat
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, indian violin is tuned C G C G. Note that the tonic C is relative, not necessarily absolute. That is, what is called C on one violin could be D on another. Tonic, or sruthi, is the base note for that concert, that's all. In another concert, they could choose another frequency to be C. Confusing?
@kuro758
4 жыл бұрын
@@AnanthNat Yes, better to call it Sa & Pa. Or 1st & 5th.
@dvchauhan35
3 жыл бұрын
It's E3-B3-E4-B4
Apart from music, she is looking like 'tamannah bhatia' in happy days movie
Royal mech!!!
Every time we meet. We heart it you.
Wait this is my college!
This video was in recommendations of neelambari video
Everyone should listen to this.
I didn't get the last word: "What can you do to make yourself and the world [...]" ??
@iLoveTurtlesHaha
4 жыл бұрын
What can you do to make yourself and the world smile today. :)
@daegabmusic59
4 жыл бұрын
@@iLoveTurtlesHaha Thank you very much"
Lovely! Ragini should have just played her violin throughout, no intro is really needed for this music!
But you please note down ever y thing related to your art and make a volume of books
Durga
@cou07
5 жыл бұрын
Devi durga
@dvchauhan35
5 жыл бұрын
@@cou07 I was telling about the Raga she played.
@SiddharthSinghFiery69
4 жыл бұрын
Durga Mata 🙏🔥💗
@silvanopovorotti2690
4 жыл бұрын
She played Raag Durga.
She should start doing the Ling Ling challenge Maybe she practises 40 hrs a day
@jalibashirin
4 жыл бұрын
Twoset violin fans everywhere
@agnidas5816
4 жыл бұрын
Dude if twoset saw this they would roast her so hard. She sounds HORRIBLE on the violin and you can see some reasons why right away when you see her play. The two-set community is really this inept ?!
@30indrayudhdas28
4 жыл бұрын
@@agnidas5816 I know that That's the only reason I said that But she isn't playing wrong. She playing actually quite good from the Indian standpoint cause many Indian classical violinist hilds the violin that way. I am a Indian but I am more inclined toward western classical music so I don't hold like that but I seen many wonderful violinist play like that
@kuro758
4 жыл бұрын
@@30indrayudhdas28 @Indrayudh Das What are you agreeing with? & what do you mean 'from Indian standpoint'? If you're inclined towards any kind of music, you surely would be knowledgeable enough to understand how Indian classical music is another rich world of its own, & how much the violin has been ingrained into this world over centuries. Do you ever find yourself appreciating someone 'from western standpoint'? Which should be infact more natural considering you're from India.
@30indrayudhdas28
4 жыл бұрын
@@kuro758 Do not misunderstand me. I just meant that the position of holding the violin is different in India and western countries( In India we sit and play holding violin little bit down our chin but in Western countries they hold the violin completely in the chin without any effort of arm) . Ragini Shankar is prolific violinist in India. I think if something can beat western classical it is Indian classical Also please search who ling ling. It will be a great experience. 😁😁
I can hear music while writing exams.
@abhaytalwalkar
4 жыл бұрын
good
@Praxss
4 жыл бұрын
😂 I can understand your feelings
But that's not how the tune goes. Few notes are wrong. 😕
Ur Gayki style is so meledious As ur Grand Ma"/ But it dosnt match to "Light/Film songs" sorry to say.U.never play Films Song in Gyki Style plz.
First India na tamil paasi palaku..music..can't selected
Ling ling noticed you.
@cmanta004
4 жыл бұрын
Actually the way she holds her instrument, ling ling would not be proud. That's not the right way to hold a violin.
Don't you think that you have got to improve this comment is for you Ragini
my my TwoSetViolin were are guys guys, this Lady is not holding her instrument rightly ...Ohhhh God!
@Pio2001
4 жыл бұрын
She hold the violin in the traditional indian way, with the head of the instrument resting in the back of the ankle, which allow the left hand to move along the strings without having to bear the instrument.
@sahajwilliams4575
3 жыл бұрын
Thats how it is held in Indian classical music. She even talks about it briefly. In terms of execution, she can do more than most violin players around the world. TwoSetViolin guys DEFINITELY cant do what she does haha
Too technical. Problem with South Indian
@VSV659
4 жыл бұрын
vivek thakur she plays Hindustani, not South Indian Carnatic - please give up.