Bhakti · Carnatic Vocal
Indian Carnatic vocalist (1916-2004), the defining voice of South Indian devotional music and the first musician to receive the Bharat Ratna.
Indian Carnatic vocalist (1916–2004) and the defining voice of South Indian devotional music in the twentieth century. She was the first musician to receive the Bharat Ratna, and her renderings of the Venkateswara Suprabhatam and the Bhaja Govindam are still heard daily in homes and temples across India and beyond.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this artist in their own words.
An award-winning 1997 documentary on three women of the Carnatic tradition, M.S. Subbulakshmi, D.K. Pattammal and Tanjore Brinda, built around interviews filmed with all three during their lifetimes and around the devotional songs of Tyagaraja.
The path of loving devotion: surrender, chanting and remembrance as ways to dissolve the sense of separation from the divine.
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