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M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian Carnatic vocalist (died 2004)

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M. S. Subbulakshmi

Indian Carnatic classical vocalist (1916–2004)

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was an Indian Carnatic singer. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour and also the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award in 1974. She was the first Indian to…
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Carnatic region

Geographic region of southern India

The Carnatic region is the peninsular South Indian region between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal, in the erstwhile Madras Presidency and in the modern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and southern coastal Andhra Pradesh. During the British era, demarcation was different and…
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