M S Subbulakshmi Carnatic Singer
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi or M S Subbulakshmi, also admiringly called the Nightingale of India, perhaps needs no introduction. She was one of the greatest Tamilnadu carnatic singers and also received the first Bharat Ratna for a musician, the highest civilian award of India. To know more about Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi, click here:
M S Subbulakshmi
M S Subbulakshmi Musical Career
The musical career of M S Subbulakshmi began when she was a little kid.  The first recording of M S Subbulakshmi came out when she was just ten years old. At the age of sixteen, the first public stage performance M S Subbulakshmi was performed at Kumbakonam, while the Mahamaham festival was ongoing. The first master of M S Subbulakshmi was her mother Shanmugavadivu and then took training under Pandit Narayan Rao Vyas in Hindustani Classical Music.
When M S Subbulakshmi was around 17, she began to perform her own concerts, and performed before prestigious audiences such as in the Madras Music Academy. Madras Music Academy was then an abode for Carnatic classical music but strictly reserved for men only. Nevertheless, there M S Subbulakshmi performed a wide array of devotional musics in various languages including Tamil, Kannada, Sanskrit, Panjabi, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu , Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi. She was the modern Meera, the spiritual leader Anandamayi Ma truly commented, who refused the invitation of the Government of Tamilnadu to stay with M S Subbulakshmi during her visit to Tamilnadu.
M S Subbulakshmi Performances Abroad
M S Subbulakshmi also performed a wide number of concerts abroad, including London, New York, Canada, the Far East and so on. She was almost the musical ambassador of India. Some M S Subbulakshmi Musical career landmarks were her performances at the Carnegie Hall of New York, the UN General Assembly on UN day in 1966, the Royal Albert Hall of London in 1982, and at the Festival of India in Moscow in 1987. After the demise of Sadasivam, the husband of M S Subbulakshmi in 1997, M S Subbulakshmi refrained from all public performances and music lovers were deprived of the M S Subbulakshmi songs.
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