{"id":1567,"date":"2002-01-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/19\/2002-01-19-south-african-tamil-songstress-releases-new-cd\/"},"modified":"2002-01-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-19T12:00:00","slug":"2002-01-19-south-african-tamil-songstress-releases-new-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/19\/2002-01-19-south-african-tamil-songstress-releases-new-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Tamil Songstress Releases New CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.co.za\/2001\/11\/18\/arts\/durban\/aned19.asp\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>SOUTH AFRICA, January 19, 2002: Tamil Songstress Mahenthri Pillay, one of South Africa&#8217;s prominent Hindu classical musicians, has just released her fourth CD, Isai Gaanam, &#8220;Fragrance of Music.&#8221; It is a compilation of popular Tamil devotional songs made famous by the renowned Thyagaraj Bhagvathar. See her biography and interview at the Sunday Times link above. Her previously released CDs include: Paamalai &#8212; A collection of devotional songs sung in praise of various deities; Sacred Music &#8212; Compositions of the great Saivite saints; and Dharshan &#8212; Songs in praise of Lord Vishnu in his form as Lord Rama, which includes the sacred Hanuman Chalisa. For further information contact the artist at devgov@iafrica.com or telephone 031-3096647.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE SOUTH AFRICA, January 19, 2002: Tamil Songstress Mahenthri Pillay, one of South Africa&#8217;s prominent Hindu classical musicians,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}