Nightingale of India - Bharat Ratna Srimati M.S.Subbulakshmi: June 2012

Saturday 23 June 2012

Images of Srimati M.S.Subbulakshmi

These are some images of M.S.Amma. In some of the above images it is clearly visible and observed that while singing a particularly song M.S.Amma emotionally involved into the depths of that song. Thats why M.S.Amma become very popular with her melodious and divine voice. Even though M.S.Amma not physically between us but she always lived in the hearts of millions of music lovers across the globe. A great musician genius of our age.

Monday 18 June 2012

"Madurai Legend Carnatic Music Singer M.S.Subbulakshmi"

"Madurai Legend Carnatic Music Singer M.S.Subbulakshmi" is an article published in the website of Madurai Directory.com.

http://www.maduraidirectory.com/madurai/legends.php

Yesterday I am requesting the said website for using the information in my M.S.Subbulakshmi blog. As per their below reply to me they allow me for using the same in my M.S.S. Blog.

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On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:50 PM, maduraidirectory. com <webmaster@maduraidirectory.com> wrote:

Dear DS,

Happy about your efforts to provide information about Smt.M.S.

You can use the information provided by us.

Wish you all the best.

-Admin

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According to their above permission and encouragement to me i use the same article text and images now in my blog. Once again thanks to Maduraidirectory.com website team for their permission for using their information about Smt.M.S.S. in my blog.

http://www.maduraidirectory.com/madurai/legends.php

Bharat Ratna Smt.M.S.Subbulakshmi
-- Carnatic Singer --
Madurai Address: No.27, West Anumantharaayar Street, Near Central Theatre, Madurai - 1.

There isn't a music fan alive who hasn't hear of a living legend M.S.Subbulakshmi, Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi, known as MS, as she is an icon of the Carnatic Music of India, international celebrity, charisma-plus person and charming lady of incredible humility and more.

She was born in Madurai, Tamilnadu on September 16,1916 to noted Veena player Shanmukhavadivu and Lawyer Subramania Iyer. Young Kunchamma as she was called and her siblings was brought up in a musical environment in her home close to the Madurai Meenakshi Temple. Her grand mother Akkammal was a violinist. Her mother used to play and rehearse constantly and Kunchamma used to listen and hum ragas along with the Veena and the Nadaswaram recitals frequently heard from the temple. Her first Guru was Madurai Srinivasa Iyengar but her lessons could not last long as her guru passed away soon after she finished her foundations. But she kept practicing on her own for long hours. She did her formal schooling only till class 5th and music became the world for her. Subbalakshmi's perfect pitch whether high or low and fantastic range of voice is the result of her dedication, toil and hours of continuous practice. As a child, when she practiced she would stop playing the tambura in between to check whether she is maintaining the pitch with and without it. She also learned Hindustani music from Pandit Narayan Rao Vyas for a short while. In the 1930's she learned 'khayals' and 'thumris' from Dwijenderlal Roy in Calcutta and later from Siddheshwari Devi of Benares and bhajans and Rabindra Sangeet from Dilipkumar Roy, she incorporates bhajans in almost all her concerts.

M.S.Subbulakshmi's Home in Madurai

Little Kunchamma accompanied her mother in local concerts and later gave solo performances. She was the child prodigy of Madurai at one time. She gave her first recital at the tender age of 10, when she was asked to sing at the wedding of a Sourashtra friend of the family in Madurai. Her first recording was also at the same age, when she recorded a couple of songs 'Marakat vadivu' and 'Oothukuzhiyinile' in an impossibly high pitch for HMV in Madras. In 1934, in her debut at the Madras Music Academy she was noticed and applauded by top rank musicians like Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, Tiger Varadachariar, Karaikudi Sambavisa Iyer and the likes.

In 1940 she married Thiagaraja Sadasivam, a well known figure in the Madras Congress circle, at Thiruneermalai. They had met four years earlier and with his wide connections in the journalistic and political world, he became instrumental in the continued success of her already flourishing career. From 1938 for a period of six years she started acting in films for a short while. Her films were quite successful but later in 1944 after her big hit 'Meera' produced by her husband and released in Tamil and Hindi, she quit and concentrated solely on music. From a South Indian celebrity she went on to become a national figure. Internationally she has given concerts almost all over the world like at Edinburgh festival and at the United Nations(1970), Carnegie Hall as the inaugural concert of the festival of India in London in 1982.

Subbalakshmi has been the recipient of the highest awards and honours the nation could bestow upon an artist and significant international recognition. She has earned doctorates from famed universities and her divine voice has earned acclaim from big and famous personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru, Maharana of Udaipur etc as well as top rank musicians both in the Carnatic and Hindustani sphere in the country. In 1998, she was the first musician to receive the highest civilian award 'Bharat Ratna' from the President of India. Padma Bhushan(1954), Padma Vibhushan(1975), Ramon Magsaysay award (1974) are some of the major awards she has received.

Expired on 11-Dec-2004

President Abdul Kalam, pays homage to classical singer M.S. Subbulakshmi, in Chennai on 12-Dec-2004

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