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M. S. Subbulakshmi

1916 - 2004

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Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) 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 perform at the United Nations General Assembly in 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. M. S. Subbulakshmi is the 972nd most popular singer (down from 509th in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from India (down from 293rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 972 out of 4,381. Before her are Alain Bashung, Mort Shuman, Ljiljana Petrović, Yaki Kadafi, Björn Skifs, and Bora Đorđević. After her are Patti LaBelle, Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, Jakob Dylan, Alexander Bard, Anneke Grönloh, and Adoniran Barbosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 157. Before her are Penelope Fitzgerald, José López Rega, Giuseppe Taddei, Jack Arnold, Tatevik Sazandaryan, and Anthony Dawson. After her are Pruden, Carlo Rustichelli, Chiang Fang-liang, Chinmayananda Saraswati, Torsten Hägerstrand, and Budd Boetticher. Among people deceased in 2004, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 167. Before her are Carmen Laforet, Agnes Martin, Christl Cranz, Ljubiša Spajić, Rick James, and Howard Keel. After her are Carlo Rustichelli, Chiang Fang-liang, Gennadi Strekalov, Ryszard Kukliński, Torsten Hägerstrand, and Christer Pettersson.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 515 out of 1,861. Before her are Sumitranandan Pant (1900), John Frost (1912), Soumya Swaminathan (1959), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Guru Har Krishan (1656), and Pankaj Kapur (1954). After her are Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Margaret Murray (1863), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), Kumaragupta I (400), and Fatima Jinnah (1893).

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Among SINGERS In India

Among singers born in India, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 10. Before her are Navneet Aditya Waiba (null), Kishore Kumar (1929), Asha Bhosle (1933), Kavita Krishnamurthy (1958), Kumar Sanu (1957), and Gangubai Hangal (1913). After her are Jasraj (1930), S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946), Manna Dey (1919), Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Hemanta Mukherjee (1920), and Girija Devi (1929).

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