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MS Subbulakshmi Profile, Early Life, Achievement, Award Detail

 

 

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (MS Subbulakshmi) Early Life, Achievements, Awards and Personal Life Detail

The queen of Music, Nightingale of India Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi is also popularly known by the abbreviation MS. She was a Legendary vocal Singer of Carnatic music from Madurai (Tamil Nadu). She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna.

MS Subbulakshmi was born on 16th of September 1916 in Madurai, Madras Presidency during British Raj in India. Her parents  Shanmukavadiver Ammal and Subramania Lyer were famous Veena musical instrument Player.

MS Subbulakshmi started learning Carnatic music at an early age and trained in Carnatic music under the tutelage of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer. She learned Hindustani music under Pandit Narayanrao Vyas.

MS Subbulakshmi’s mother was a music exponent belonging to Devadasi community and a regular stage performer, MS Subbulakshmi gave her first public performance, at the age of eleven, in the year 1927. 

Bharat Ratna MS Subbulakshmi Achievements and Awards:

MS Subbulakshmi Personal Life

M. S. Subbulakshmi married to Kalki Sadasivam. Subbulakshmi stopped all her public performances.

She died on December 11, 2004, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She died of broncho pneumonia and cardiac irregularities, old age related problems.


 

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