Srila Prabhupada was an expert at playing mridanga and singing kirtans. In his young age, he was trained by his father in the art of mridanga playing. It was a greatly enlivening and blissful experience for the disciples of Srila Prabhupada to watch and listen to him singing sweet kirtans surcharged with deep devotion. Srila Prabhupada groomed some of his disciples as leading singers and mridanga players for performing sankirtans which attracted many people to the Krishna consciousness movement.