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Uppalapu Shrinivas, (28 February 1969 - 19 September 2014) was an Indian mandolin player of the Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India. Srinivas played an electric mandolin and had collaborated with John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1998 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2010. He was a follower and devotee of Sri Sathya Sai Baba and he had performed before him on several occasions.

U. Srinivas made his first public Carnatic concert performance in 1978 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, during the Thyagaraja Aradhana festival. Soon, he came to perform in the Madras Music Season in 1981 for the Indian Fine Arts Society. In 1983, he performed at the JazzFest Berlin where the audience requested him to do a repeat performance.
He continued touring the world, Australia, Southeast Asia and then Southwest Asia, followed by the United States and Canada..