An eight year old boy strides confidently to the stage and
the audience spellbound with his sweet and soulful rendition of that Lata
Classic 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram'. The audience is in raptures. A prodigy had
arrived. The boy was Sairam Iyer and
this scene was to be witnessed time and again in his illustrious career. As a
child, Sairam was God gifted with a mellifluous voice that resembled a female’s
voice. With this innate gift, Sairam went
on to steal the hearts of the film music crazy and discerning audience of
Bombay with his uncanny ability to reproduce on stage, the magical voices of his idols Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle including their minutest nuances. Singer Sairam had music and art following in
his veins. His father Mr. K.V.S. Mani was an accomplished, dancer and actor, from whom Sairam inherited his artistic and musical genes. Adolescence played
its inevitable trick on Sairam. His voice began its natural course of
transition from the childlike sweetness to a more youthful and mature voice.
While Sairam happily welcomed this law of nature, he missed his earlier voice
that brought him much adultation.
Sairam was also a student of the late music maestro. Pandit
Ramesh Nadkarni While winning innumerable awards at music competitions at
different levels (college, university, zonal and national), Sairam showed his
versatility by participating in the Mumbai University's music choir under the
eminent choir conductor Late Kanu Ghosh and, subsequently, was deputed to
conduct the choir by the later.
Sairam has performed in more than 1500 shows all over India,
U.K., U.S.A. South America, Canada, West Asia, West Indies and the Far East. He
has also lent his magical presence at prestigious music and dance festivals.