M. S. Subbulakshmi

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi

Born:16 September 1916

Died:11 December 2004

She was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour.
She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often considered Asia’s Nobel Prize.
In 1974 with the citation reading “Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the carnatic tradition of South India.
The great national leader and poet Sarojini Naidu called her “Nightingale of India”.
She won Padma Bhushan in 1954, Sangeetha Kalasikhamani in 1975 by The Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai, Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1968.
She was honoured as a resident artist [Asthana Vidhwan] of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams.
Tirupati Urban Development Authority (TUDA) has installed a bronze statue of M.S. Subbulakshmi at the Poornakumbham circle in the temple town.

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