M S Subbalakshmi

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.^[1]She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often considered Asia's Nobel Prize,^[2] in 1974 with the citation reading "Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the carnatic tradition of South India."^[3][4]

Sriramanarayana   M S Subbalakshmi