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    M.S. Subbulakshmi was a renowned Indian classical musician known for her Carnatic singing. She received training in both Carnatic and Hindustani classical music. Over her career, she received many awards including the Sangeet Kalanidhi, Magsaysay Award, Kalidas Award, and Bharat Ratna. She was also known for her social service work, including fundraising concerts for the blind. Subbulakshmi passed away in 2004 in Chennai.

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    M.S. Subbulakshmi was a renowned Indian classical musician known for her Carnatic singing. She received training in both Carnatic and Hindustani classical music. Over her career, she received many awards including the Sangeet Kalanidhi, Magsaysay Award, Kalidas Award, and Bharat Ratna. She was also known for her social service work, including fundraising concerts for the blind. Subbulakshmi passed away in 2004 in Chennai.

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    M.S. Subbulakshmi was a renowned Indian classical musician known for her Carnatic singing. She received training in both Carnatic and Hindustani classical music. Over her career, she received many awards including the Sangeet Kalanidhi, Magsaysay Award, Kalidas Award, and Bharat Ratna. She was also known for her social service work, including fundraising concerts for the blind. Subbulakshmi passed away in 2004 in Chennai.

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    M.S. Subbulakshmi was a renowned Indian classical musician known for her Carnatic singing. She received training in both Carnatic and Hindustani classical music. Over her career, she received many awards including the Sangeet Kalanidhi, Magsaysay Award, Kalidas Award, and Bharat Ratna. She was also known for her social service work, including fundraising concerts for the blind. Subbulakshmi passed away in 2004 in Chennai.

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    India has a rich variety of music like,

    sugam, folk, semi classical, classical.


    Different regions have different rhythms
    and flavours of music. Carnatak is a form
    of Indian classical music.
    M.S.Subbulakshmi was well-known in the
    field of classical music especially for her
    singing of Carnatak classical songs.

    Subbulakhmis full name is Madurai


    Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi. She was born
    on 16th September, 1916 at Madurai in Tamil
    Nadu. She got her training in the Carnatak
    classical music from Srinivas Iyer and in
    Hindustani classical music from Pandit
    Narayan Rao Vyas. She acted in her first
    feature film Sewasadan in 1938.
    In 1940, she married Tyagarajan Sadasivam.
    Tyagarajan was a freedom fighter.

    The devotional songs (Bhajans) sung by her


    in the film Meera were appreciated by one
    and all. Even today these songs are very
    popular among people. In Meera, she sang
    devotional songs in Hindi for the first time.
    Even Mahatma Gandhi had tears in his eyes
    when he heard the song Vaishnav Jan To
    Teine Kahiye, Peer Paraye Jaane Re, sung
    by Subbalakshmi.

    She received a number of Awards in her


    life. She was the first classical singer to
    have received the Sangeet Kalanidhi
    award in 1968, the Magsaysay award in
    1975, the Kalidas award in 1988 and the
    Indira Gandhi award for National
    Integration in 1990. In 1998 she received
    the Bharat Ratna award for her
    contribution in the Carnatak Classical
    music.

    Along with her achievements an classical


    music, Subbulakshmi was also known for
    her social service. She had a soft corner for
    the blind. She participated in music
    concerts in five big cities of India to collect
    money for them. The whole amount thus
    collected was donated to Shankara
    Netralaya Hospital.
    For last few years, she stopped
    participating in concerts. She died on
    December 11, 2004 in Chennai.

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