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Gayatri Avvari
Alka Bhatnagar
Sai Manapragada

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Alka Bhatnagar is a multifaceted, highly accomplished vocalist, with a masters in Music. She is a gold medalist & a recipient of "Sangeet Prabhakar" and many prestigious awards.Alka ji has received training in music from famous maestros Pdt. Ganesh Prasad Misra, Ustad Altaf Hussain, Vinod Chatterjee, SN Goswami and Ustad Mohd. Wazir. Alka ji is the Founder & Guru Of "Sur Bahar" a premier school. She has released several albums including "Ram Charan Sukhdai' & "Krishna Leela" with Bhajan Samrat Anup Jalota.Her other albums are "Hari Naam Sukh Dham", "Preetam Pardesi", "Aarati" and "Mantras". She has given melodious duets with top play back singers Kumar Sanu, Udit Narain and Abhijeet. She has performed numerous concerts all over world. Alka_Bhatnagar

Sai "Psychuck" Manapragada is an accomplished music composer, a keyboardist and a singer. Born into a family of musicians, he was anointed with music as a natural consequence. Started singing at three and by the time he was twelve, Psychuck had already accompanied his father’s musical tours and became a surrogate band member. Psychuck was recognized as the youngest music director, singer and lyricist when he first introduced his musical talent to the world in 1982 directing a TV Special on National Integration. He performed at the Rashtrapathy Bhavan and received the prestigious National Integration Award and is the pioneer of Folk Rock - a genre that intends to popularize  traditional Indian music through the fusion with modern music. Psychuck’s music takes the essence from Carnatic, Hindustani and Folklore genres. He further expands into Asian, Latin, and Middle-Eastern genres and embraces the Rock and Pop genres of the West with a hint of Western Classical overtures in most of his works. He was part of many contemporary rock bands and ensembles. He has recently attempted to get into the Guinness World Records by singing a song in more than 300 languages which is under the process of abjudication.

 Psychuck is an entreprenuer and a technology executive in a wireless start-up (picongen.com) and lives in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and  two daughters. He is the Chairman of Folklore Arts Research and Music Institute (FARMI, USA) and is the co-founder of Psymphony - a launch pad for aspiring talent in the fields of music, dance and performing arts industry. He continues to contribute and play key roles in many cultural and non-profit organizations, both in India and here in the US.

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Gayatri Avvari began her formal training in carnatic music under Smt. Padmavati of Hyderabad ,continued her musical studies with Smt. Neeta Chandrashekhar,& successfully completed a special course on Annamacharya Sankeertanas with Smt. Shobha Raju.She  continued her advanced classical training with renowned Divyanama Sankeertanam exponent, Veda Thiruvaiyaru Sri S. R. Krishnan in Los Angeles. Gayatri has performed extensively in numerous organizations in India , Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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