The village Umayalpuram (Tamil Nadu, India) lies on the banks of the sacred Cauvery river, in between the holy towns Kumbakonam and Thiruvayaru.
Krishna Baghavathar and Sundara Bagavathar who lived during the 19th century were the direct disciples of Saint Thyagaraja.
Krishnan, Trichur Ramachandran, Violin M. Chandrasekaran, T.N.Seshagopalan, T. V. Sankaranarayanan, O.S.Thyagarajan,[5] Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Sudha Ragunathan, Vijay Siva, T.M.
Mali participated in the programme "Rhythm Spectrum" conceived by his guru Sivaraman at the Music Academy, Chennai.
He participated in the "Laya Vinyasam" programme in Manamadurai along with mridangam vidwans T. K. Murthy, Ramnad Raghavan and Tanjavur Ramadass.
Umayalpuram Mali[13] won prizes and awards (‘Nadha Vallabha', ‘Kala Acharya Sironmani', ‘Kalaai Isai Sudaroli’ etc.)