Jayanthi has been trained in music under Vidushi Sugandha Raman, the well known exponent of classical Indian Music.She received the Best Musician Award fromBangalore Gayana Samaja in 1984. She is on the panel of musicians of All India Radio, Bangalore and has also performed on Bangalore Doordarshan. She has performed in several music concerts at Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Bangalore, Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhane, Hindu Temples at Sunnyvale, Livermore and Malibu in California and sponsored events of South India Fine Arts, Northern California. She also works with Bay Area's well known musician, Shrimathi Asha Ramesh in furthering her musical interests.
Nagaraj started his music education more than 10 years ago at the Vijaya College of Music, Bangalore, India. He continued his advanced music education under Sangeetha Kalarathna Prof.H.V.Krishnamurthy, Principal of the Vijaya College of Music and his son, Ganakalashree Sri.H.K.Venkatram. Nagaraj is currently furthering his musical interests with the bay area's leading musician Smt.Asha Ramesh.
Nagaraj has accompanied artists both in India and in the USA Along with his guru, Sri.H.K.Venkatram, Nagaraj has developed multi-media presentations on the "Life and Times of Sri Muthuswami Dikshithar", "Panchabhutha krithis of Sri Muthuswami Dikshithar" and "Navagraha krithis of Sri Muthuswami Dikshithar". He has also co-authored a multi-media CD on Saint Thyagaraja's Pancharathna krithis.
He had his initiation into the mridangam under Sri M.A.Krishnamurthy in Mysore in 1980. He then continued to learn under Sri M.K.Venugopal, a student of H.P.Ramachar in Bangalore ; during this time, he started playing ghatam as well. In the bay area he received training as well as lot of exposure under Sri Shriram Brahmanandam. Currently he is furthering his knowledge under Sri Neyveli Narayanan.
Ravi has accompanied various artists such as Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandam, Prof. T.V.Gopalakrishnan , Sri Papanasam Ashok Ramani, Sri Vidhya Bhushana and his own mother, Ranganayaki Sridharan. Ravi has accompanied Srikanth Chary and Shriram Brahmanandam in Srikanth's CD titled "Tiger and Silk". Ravi has performed in AIR Chennai and on Sun TV.