This album, mana mohana has risen from the artist Latha's combined passion for Kannada poetry and music. It is a collection of beautiful poetry by renowned poet, Dr. N. S. Lakshminarayana Bhatta in the South Indian language, Kannada, and set to light emotion-based melodies. This set of twenty two poems, all in the theme of Sri Krishna, covers his playful, mischievous childhood years, his colorful romantic years, and the sad parting from all his admirers as he leaves for Mathura. There are also some poems based on devotional poetry called Bhajans by 16th century Hindu mystic poet, Meera Bai. The album depicts a variety of tunes which have been carefully designed to evoke the mood apt for each poem and includes light playful songs, romantic melodies, meditative hymns, and melodramatic light classical music based compositions. Dr. Latha Nataraj is a scientist, singer, music composer, and artist, living in the Philadelphia area in the USA. She comes from a family of musicians and music enthusiasts and was initiated into Karnatak music at a very young age by her mother, Mrs. Vasantha Ramamurthy. Later, she continued her training in Karnatak music from Vid. Ramaa Krishnamurthy, Vid. Saraswathi Shankar, and late Vid. G.V. Ranganayakamma of Sri Rama Lalitha Kalaa Mandira in Bengaluru. Further, she learned some of her favorite compositions of the legendary Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna from his disciple, late Vid. M. K. Channakeshava. Having trained with Vid. Krianavali Vidyashankar in the Philadelphia area for some time, she currently continues her journey in Karnatak music with Sangeetha Kalaa Ratna Vid. M.S. Sheela. Neha Nataraj is a 21 year old pre-med senior at Columbia University majoring in biology. She was born and brought up in Pennsylvania, but her parents imparted to her a deep love for Kannada. Her first Karnataka Sangeetha guru was Dr. Latha Nataraj, her mother, who began to teach her from the time she could speak. Neha was formally trained in Karnatak music by Vid. Kiranavali Vidyasankar and had her debut full classical music performance in 2011. She performs frequently in the area singing light, popular, and film music. She also started an Indian music group at Columbia University in 2013. Ajay Warriar is a very popular professional singer with strong musical roots in Karnatak Classical music and trained with Vidwan Shri. T. V Gopalakrishnan (TVG) among others. He excels in singing across genres and media in a variety of languages (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Tulu, Telugu, Hindi etc.). Ajay has, to his credit, several solo numbers for various movies under talented music directors. Ajay has been bestowed with several awards across the globe. He considers it the utmost honor to have accompanied and recorded with stalwarts like Sri K. J. Yesudas, Sri Ilayaraja, Sri S. P. Balasubramaniam, Sri P. B. Srinivas, Sri Hariharan, Smt. Vani Jayaram,Smt. S. Janaki, Smt. P. Susheela & Smt. K.S. Chitra. He has performed in concerts in the Middle East, USA, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. Credits Lyrics: Dr. N. S. Lakshminarayana Bhatta Music Composition: Latha Nataraj Music Arrangement & Keyboard: Praveen D. Rao Sitar: H. P. Srinivas Tabla: Gurumurthy Vaidya Flute: Varijashree Venugopal Creative Percussion: Pramath Kiran