Ramji Tamarappoo started his mridangam training
when he was ten years old under Shri Chitti Babu in Chennai. He later
sought guidance from Shri. Thanjavur S.M.Sivaprakasam. He was a youth
artist at AIR (Chennai) and Doordarshan (Chennai). Ramji is an economist
by profession and he lives with his wife in Washington DC.