Subbalakshmi synonymous with seven notes

Singing in natural tones like the murmur of a flowing river, MS Subbalakshmi blended her devotional sentiments with the seriousness of Indian classical music to create a melody that still delights the listeners.

It can be called the magic of Subbalakshmi's music that she maintained her top position in Indian classical music for eight consecutive decades. In 1966, he became the first Indian composer to sing at the United Nations General Assembly. Due to all these achievements, the Government of India awarded him the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the country. She was also the first classical singer to receive this top honor of the country.

According to Girish Chandra Pandey, a lecturer in the music department at Kashi Hindu University, the seriousness of classical music is prominent in Subbalakshmi's singing. A glimpse of the discipline of words and tone is also easily displayed in his singing.

Subbalakshmi came into the field of classical music through traditional education. With the style and laborious practice inherited from tradition, he preserved the elegance in his singing. That is why his singing not only attracts but its effect lasts for a long time.
Subbalakshmi was a singer of that generation who spent at least seven to eight hours a day practicing. With this practice, she gave all such things to Indian music which still seem unique and new. Born into a musician family in Madurai on September 16, 1916, Subbalakshmi performed her art for the first time in Kumbakonam at the age of just eight. This musical journey which started at the age of eight never stopped and achieved new achievements year after year.
Subbalakshmi had learned classical music from S Srinivasa Iyer and Pandit Narayanrao, a famous disciple of Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar. The magic of Subbalakshmi's voice will be said that the composition she sang was associated with her name.

Music is the language of the heart. Characterizing this, Subbalakshmi sang in many languages ​​which include Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati and Sanskrit besides the languages ​​of the South.
Subbalakshmi had acted in films. His first film was Sevasadan made in Tamil in 1938. He had played the central role of Narad in the 1941 film Savitri. This was followed by his Meera film which was remade in Hindi under the same name in 1947. Meera's hymn 'Mohe Chakar Rakho Ji' sung by him in the film Meera is still one of the favorite hymns of Hindi speaking music lovers.