Shadaj Godkhindi

Born to an illustrious family of musicians, shadaj is lucky to have Pandit Pravin Godkhindi as his father and Pandit Venkatesh Godkhindi as his grandfather. Music runs in his genes, so it was no surprise that shadaj started giving glimpses of a genius in the making at a very tender age. A child prodigy, he astonished his family when he would spend hours with electronic tablas and tanpuras. His acute taste for shruthi and laya was evident even as a toddler.

Shadaj gave his first public concert at the age of 3 years in the very famous Ravindra Kalakshetra auditorium, Bangalore. From then on he has been regularly performing with his father and grandfather. Shadaj is proud to be the 3rd generation flautist of the only family in the country which boasts of performing together on one stage.

Of late, shadaj has been practicing the western drums under late Babu Sukumar and Khanjira from Vinod shyam Anoor for Carnatic layakaaris. He has already been featured in numerous TV shows as well. He has performed in many prestigious music festivals across India. He has also performed in Hong Kong, Qatar and Dubai, Oman and USA.

He is the recipient of “Award of Excellency in Music” by RamSeva Mandali, Bangalore. . Shadaj has also bagged the first prize in All India radio Aakashvani competition and is now a ‘B’ grade artist.