
Madurai, Madras Presidency, India
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. 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."
as Herself (Archive footage)
as Meera
1945

as Sumathi
1938

as Herself (Archive footage)
1997

as Dancer
1947

as Sakuntalai
1940
as Herself (Archive footage)
2013

as Herself (Archive footage)
2000
as Dancer
1947