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.
