Sudha Ananthakrishnan is a well trained carnatic music vocalist based in Rochester Hills, MI. She performs Carnatic vocal concerts and is also an experienced teacher. She has served as faculty at SaPa school of music (run by Vid. L Subramaniam and family) and Shankar Mahadevan Academy.

Born and raised in Ernakulam, Kerala, she has been learning Carnatic music since the age of 5, from a few different teachers, namely Late Smt. Malathy Rama Varma, Smt. Girija( currently a lecturer at RLV college of fine arts, Kerala) Late Smt.Padma Narayanan, and late Smt. Lalitha Suryanarayanan(a senior disciple of Vid. Bombay Alamelu Mani). She has also learned from Prof. Kumara Kerala Varma, Dr. Malini Hariharan and Shri. K.N. Shashikiran. Currently, she is under the able tutelage of Vid. Sri G. Ravikiran.

On the educational front, she has a Master’s in Biotechnology from Cochin University of Science and Technology. She also has 4+ years of research experience in molecular biology, both in India( CSIR – fellow) and in the U.S. A few years back, she decided to take up music full-time.

She has won numerous awards and accolades from various organizations/competitions – Shri Poornathrayeesa Sangeetha Sabha, Ernakulam, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s All Kerala Bhavans Youth festival, Sargam youth festival conducted by Cochin University of Science and Technology, Sangeethabhooshanam M R Sivaraman Nair memorial competitions, to name a few. She was awarded a certificate for “Outstanding talent in music” from her school, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Tripunithura, Cochin, for the academic years 1998-1999 and 2001-02.