Mandolin Shrinivas passed away at Apollo Hospital in Chennai on Friday morning around 9.30 due to failure of lever transplant.

U. Srinivas, who become noted as Mandolin Srinivas, was born on February 28th, 1969 in Palakollu inAP state. He developed interest in music at the tender age. Srinivas who is obsessed with his father Satyanarayana’s Mandolin becomes expert in playing the instrument within a year or so. He begins his glorious musical journey at his 9 years age with a first public music concert. His extraordinary musical skills and in-depth knowledge about it has placed him in top in the musical world. He was honored with prestigious Padma Shri and the Sangeet Natak Akademi awards.The news about his sudden death has comes as a terrible shock to music world as he was just 45 years.