Payyannur T. Govindaprasad is one of the leading morsing artistes in India. An A-grade artiste of All India Radio, Govind

I hail from Mathil, near Payyannur in Kannur district.  At the age of 16 or 17, I began learning the mridangam from Kaithapram Viswanathan Namboodiri who runs a school called Shrutilayam School of Music at Payyannur. He was my first guru. 

 I began playing the ghatam, the ganjira and, eventually, the morsing too. Intuitively, I felt that I had found my instrument when I began playing the morsing. I consider it a blessing of Mookambika Devi. 

witching to the morsing gave me the space to hone my skills and move on to accompanying senior musicians in South India.

Thanks to my decision to become a morsing player, I was quickly able to accompany giants on the stage. I have accompanied musicians like K.J. Yesudas, M. Balamuralikrishna, T.N. Seshagopalan, T.V. Sankaranarayan, O.S. Thygarajan, Sreevalsan J. Menon, T.M. Krishna, Aswathi Tirunal Rama Varma, P. Unnikrishnan, Sanjay Subramnayam and so on. I consider myself singularly blessed to have had this chance to accompany legends so early in my career.