Perukavu P.L. Sudheer is a trained mridangam artiste who passed out from the Sree Swati Tirunal College of Music, Thiruvananthapuram, with the first rank in Ganapraveena (1991). Today Sudheer is more known for his skills on the ghatam, and has accompanied both senior artistes such as Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, Rudrapatnam Brothers, T.M. Krishna, and Sreevalsan J. Menon, and up-and-coming artistes such as Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna and Amruta Venkatesh, at prestigious venues across India and abroad. A double B-High artiste (in mridangam and ghatam) of All India Radio, the 42-year-old works as a lecturer in mridangam at the RLV College of Music, Thripunithura.  Sudheer is also perhaps among the first few musicians to adapt the ghatam to fusion music and is an expert in rendering konnakkkol.