Udupi S Srikanth is a Mridangam and Kanjira Artist. He started off by learning the mridangam from the late Karamana Krishnankutty Nair. Later he took lessons from Trivandrum R Vaidyanathan and Thrikkakkara Y N Shantaram. Now he is learning from Bangalore N Amrit. Srikanth is now a B-High graded artiste of All India Radio.