Musiri Subramania Iyer, who passed
away on 25 March 1975, aged 75, was a Carnatic vocalist whose stage
performing career spanned the 1920s to the 1940s. After retirement from
the stage, he remained an iconic figure in Carnatic music as a dedicated teacher
and leader in the Carnatic community. His bhava-laden renditions of
Carnatic songs have become the measuring stick for generations of Carnatic
vocalists. Musiri Subramania Iyer is considered one of the giants of Carnatic
music in the twentieth century.
