{"id":23,"date":"2010-11-27T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kiruba.tv\/?p=23"},"modified":"2016-01-22T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T08:46:12","slug":"ace-drummer-sivamani-talks-about-his-life-and-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/ace-drummer-sivamani-talks-about-his-life-and-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Drummer Sivamani Talks about his Life and Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sivamani is an electrifying performer and one of the leading drummers of India.<\/p>\n<p>I bumped into him at the Chennai airport and pulled him aside for a quick, impromptu interview. There was a Xone shop, the wireless headphones for which he is a brand ambassador. It was inside the airport and we snuck ourselves in for this interview.<\/p>\n<p>His work blends classical drumming styles &#8212; he studied with Carnatic master S.P. Balasubramaniam &#8212; with jazz and world beats to create a propulsive sound that pulls in many instruments and traditions.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, he says, he drummed on pots and pans in the kitchen, and that exuberance seems never to have left him.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s an enthusiastic ambassador for the drum around India and the globe, and a frequent collaborator. A few notable match-ups: Youssou N&#8217;Dour, tabla player Zakir Hussain, flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia, percussionist Elvin Jones, and A.R. Rahman, composer of Bombay Dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sivamani is an electrifying performer and one of the leading drummers of India. I bumped into him at the Chennai airport and pulled him aside for a quick, impromptu interview. There was a Xone shop, the wireless headphones for which he is a brand ambassador. It was inside the airport and we snuck ourselves in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}