Who is Sivasri Skandaprasad, Carnatic singer who married Bengaluru MP Tejasvi Surya?

Carnatic singer Sivasri Skandaprasad married Tejasvi Surya, BJP MP from Bengaluru South, in an intimate ceremony on Thursday.

Updated on: Mar 6, 2025, 15:57:48 IST

By Sanya Jain

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Carnatic singer Sivasri Skandaprasad married Tejasvi Surya, BJP MP from Bengaluru South, in an intimate ceremony on Thursday. The wedding was held in the presence of family members, close friends, and select BJP leaders, including Annamalai, Pratap Simha, and Amit Malaviya.

Sivasri Skandaprasad married Tejasvi Surya in an intimate ceremony on March 6. (X/@Abhina_Prakash)

Search interest in Sivasri Skandaprasad has been on the rise since the couple’s wedding photographs emerged on social media today. “Sivasri Skandaprasad” is among the top trends on Google in India right now.

Here is all you need to know about Sivasri Skandaprasad:

Sivasri Skandaprasad is a Chennai-based artiste, well known for her contributions to Carnatic music, Bharatanatyam, and visual arts.

Born on August 1, 1996, she is the daughter of Seerkazhi Sri J Skandaprasad, a Mridangam maestro. She comes from a family of renowned dancers and musicians - her paternal grandfather, Kalaimamani late Seerkazhi R. Jayaraman, was an established musician, while her grandmother, Shanthi Jayaraman, was a popular vocal accompaniment for leading Bharatanatyam artistes.

On the social media platform X, Sivasri describes herself as a “Bharatiya, Musician, Dancer,” and the founder of Ahuti, a platform to revive traditional Indian art forms.

She is a B.Tech (Bio-Engineering) graduate from SASTRA University, Thanjavur. She also holds an MA in Bharatanatyam from the University of Madras.

Sivasri has trained in classical Carnatic music under Guru Sri A S Murali, and has won several prestigious music awards. Some of the awards she has won include Bharatha Kala Choodamani, Yuva Samman Award, and Bhajana Bhushan.

She started learning Bharatanatyam at the age of 3 under the tutelage of Kalaimamani Smt Krishnakumari Narendran and Acharya Choodamani Guru Smt Roja Kannan, and has given several solo performances.

Sivasri Skandaprasad has also sung a song in the movie Ponniyin Selvan 1 for A R Rahman.

(Also read: Tejasvi Surya marries Sivasri Skandaprasad, first pics out as BJP leaders congratulate Bengaluru South MP)

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Sanya Jain
Sanya Jain is an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times Digital. She has nearly a decade of experience in covering offbeat stories that speak to the everyday experience - from viral videos to human interest copies that spark conversation. Her interests stretch across business, pop culture, social media trends, entertainment and global affairs. Before joining Hindustan Times, Sanya spent two years with Moneycontrol and five years with NDTV. She holds an undergraduate degree in English literature from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and a master’s in journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai. Sanya has a sharp eye for spotting emerging trends and looking for newsworthy angles to elevate viral posts into meaningful narratives. She was the first one, for example, to cover Narayana Murthy’s remark on 70-hour work weeks that sparked a national conversation. She is equally at ease writing about business leaders as about the common man, about issues of national importance and memes that amuse social media. Sanya enjoys speaking with content creators, newsmakers and entrepreneurs to transform everyday moments into engaging, slice-of-life stories that resonate with readers. When she is not working, Sanya can be found curled up with a good book. Born and raised in Lucknow, she has spent the last several years in Delhi. She is deeply interested in animal welfare and now spends a lot of her time running after her destructive orange cat.Read More

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