MS Subbalakshmi Life story

MS subbulakshmi Birth:

MS subbulakshmi was born in a devadasi musical family, on 16th september1916.
Her parents were Kunjamma and shanmukavadivu. Her father was a famous veena vidwan. She was born in a Maduarai in tamilnadu state of south India. When MS subbalakshmi was in early age, started learning carnatic music.


MS Subbalakshmi Personal life:

MS subbulakshmi was met T.Sadasivam in 1936. He was a freedom fighter. Sadasivam already got married before relationship with MS subbulakshmi. After death of his first wife in 1940, he was married MS subbulakshmi. After their marriage sadasivam plays a key role in her career. They don’t have children’s, but sadasivam had children’s from his first marriage. They were Radha, Vijaya. Her husband was died in 1997. After that she was stopped all public performances.

MS subbulaksmi career:

MS subbulakshmi was gave her first public performance at the age of eight, During the Mahamaham festival in Kumbakonam, tamilnadu. When she was at age of ten, released her first recording. MS subbulakshmi was started learning carnatic classical music under Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and also learnt Hindustani classical music under Pandit Narayan Rao Vyas. At the age of 17 subbalxmi she was gave public performance on her own at the Madras Music Academy. At that time crantic music, traditionally
reserved for men. She was performed a variety of musical forms in different languages in Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi.
MS subbalkshmi was gave stage shows in different countries all over the world, like London, New York, Canada, the Far East and other places. subbulakshmi major performances are Carnegie Hall, New York, the UN General Assembly on UN day in 1966; the Royal Albert Hall, London in 1982; and at the Festival of India in Moscow in 1987. M.S.Subbulakshmi died on December 11, 2004, due to pneumonia and cardiac irregularities


Films:

MS subbulakshmi was acted in a few Tamil movies, when she was in young. Her first movie was released in 1938, named as “Sevasadanam”. She was plays different roles and also showed performance in male role of Narada in the movie “Savitri”. This film released in 1941. She plays title role in the film Meera and she sing the famous Meera bhajans with music director DilipKumar Roy. After that she quits the films and continuing public performances.


MS Subbalakshmi Awards and Achievements:

MS subbulakshmi was received many awards and honours. She was honored with padma bhushan award in 1954. She was achieved awards like Sangget Natak Academy in 1956 and Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1968(she was the first women for this award). And she was got Ramon Magsaysay award in 1974, the Padma Vibhushan in 1975, the Kalidas Samman in 1988, the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration in 1990, and the Bharat Ratna in 1998. She was honored as a singer of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams.

MS Subbalakshmi called with different names like Tapaswini, Suswaralakshmi and Aathuvaan Sur.

MS subbalakshmi Bhajans and songs.

Some of her most famous bhajans are Bhaja Govindam, Vishnu sahasranama, Venkateswara Suprabhatam.