Jayashri was three years old when her family moved to Mumbai’s Matunga. It seemed like I had no choice in what was happening in my life,” says the Calcutta-born Jayashri, who otherwise enjoyed listening to the melodies of Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Farida Khanum and Mehdi Hassan, among others. Then there were lessons with this or that teacher because s/he taught something that my mother felt I needed to imbibe, and then also go to school. Often, I’d continue into a film song that my mother had liked on AIR’s Sangeet Sarita. “I had to wake up at 3.45 am every day and practise. She resented the prospect of singing and practising, but her mother would not relent. Jayashri, however, was a reluctant student. “I was not allowed to do things that my friends did, like go out and play. Back in the day, she was an exacting guru to a young Jayashri and an unrelenting taskmaster, who wanted to live her own dream of wanting to be a professional musician through her daughter. When the Padma awardees were announced last month, the artiste’s first call was to her 92-year-old mother, Seethalakshmy Subramaniam, a Mumbai-based music teacher, who has always been more than just a doting mother.
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