M. S. Subbulakshmi

Carnatic music, Musical Artist

1916 – 2004

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Who was M. S. Subbulakshmi?

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi, also known as M.S., was a renowned Carnatic vocalist.

She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. 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 Karnataka tradition of South India."

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Born
Sep 16, 1916
Madurai
Also known as
  • M.S. Subbulakshmi
  • Subbulakshmi, M.S.
  • MS Subbulakshmi
  • Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi
  • Kunjamma
  • The Nightingale of India
  • M.S.
  • Subbulakshmi
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Hinduism
Ethnicity
  • Tamil
Nationality
  • India
Profession
Lived in
  • Chennai
    (1936 - 2004)
  • Madurai
Died
Dec 11, 2004
Chennai

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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