M.S. Subbulakshmi, who
passed away on 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. She is the first Indian musician to
receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often considered Asia's Nobel Prize, 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. She was the First Indian who performed
in United Nations General Assembly in 1966.
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