Bengaluru mother-daughter duo makes it big at the keyboard

Mysuru: A  27-year-old woman, Natholana Jayashree, and her six-year-old daughter Nanditha  from  Kodagu, who  live in Goa currently, learnt the keyboard in just a week to play in a mass concert and found themselves in the Guinness Book of World Records for their acheivement.

Married to  Kadlera Umasharavana, a company accounts executive, Jayashree,  an arts graduate,  heard about the mass  concert  for the  Guinness records organised by a Bengaluru institute, Veena Vani, and  decided to enter it although  her daughter had started  her keyboard lessons only  a couple of weeks previously.

The two decided to play the national anthem, Vande Mataram, Brahmamurari and Lambodara songs in Carnatic style on the keyboard, collecting the musical notes from the Veena Vani  institute. 

With just a week to go for the competition, Jayashree  learnt the basics of playing the  keyboard in Carnatic style from the Internet and even taught her little daughter to play the chosen songs .

When the concert was  held in Bengaluru in September last year, they played their way individually  into the Guinness records,  receiving the certificates of their record breaking feat a week ago.

Nandithat has now decided to play the violin at a mass string instrument concert that the  Veena Vani institute plans to host  for the Guinness records.

“She will join classes to learn to play the violin,” reveals her mother, adding that the little girl  is a yellow belt in Karate, has learnt the basics of skating , and even entered the state level Spelling Bee contest in Goa. Her dream is to become an IPS officer, says a proud Jayashree.