His first public performance, when he was 13 years old, was at the Ambalapuzha Sri Krishna temple. When he was ten years old, Venkatachalam Potti in Trivandrum taught him Carnatic music and the tutelage continued for three years. He had grasped at least 27 songs just by hearing them when they were being rendered by his mother and sister. His interest in music was nurtured by his mother, who taught him keerthanas of Thyagaraja Swamikal when he was still a child. He was the eldest among the seven children of his parents, whom he funnily described as 'those like seven notes'. Venkateswara Iyer a Bank Officer, at Mullakkal in Alappuzha, Travancore, British India.
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