G S Nagaraj , born on 19th May 1982 to Sri G.R. Sathyanarayana Shastry and Lakshminarasamma. Hails from a richly cultured and traditional family of Kolar in Karnataka.

Nagaraj has been into this divine art from the tender age of 10 years. He started his Mridangam training from Vidwan H L Gopalkrishna. Later his search for a profound guru's had ended in Vidwan B N Chandramouli and Thiruvarur Baktavatsalam.  He is also an A Grade artist from All India Radio.  

As a well known Mridangam artist his regular performances span many prestigious venues of Carnatic music. He has led several percussion ensembles with his valuable experience in music composition, direction, and orchestration. He also trains and guides students from all over the world in Carnatic music percussion.
He had directed many Fusion concerts and percussion ensembles (Taala Vaadhya Kutcheries)   

Accompanied for renowned artists, performed with Sri R K Srikantan, Sri Kadri Gopalnath, Sri
Maharajapuram Ramachandran, Sri R K Padmanabha, Vidushi Vani Sateesh, Vidushi Neela
Ramgopal, Sri O S Thyagarajan, Sri M Chandrashekaran, Rudrapatnam Brothers, BK Ananthram,
Trichur Brothers, C Ramdas, Bangalore Brothers, and others.
Dasara Music Festival, Mysore, Naadaneerajanam TTD, Tirupathi, Bangalore Habba, Times of
India Music Festival, Trissur Music Festival, and many more sabhas all over india and Abroad. 

He is well versed to train students on the Mridangam, Khanjira, Ghatam and Morsing. He has students in Europe and Japan who are learning Carnatic percussion at various levels