In an interview, she said that for an artist to achieve success, ‘humility and the attitude to learn at any stage of our life’ were essential.

Music was her life. She held global audiences in rapt. MS Subbulakshmi was not just a carnatic music legend but someone who championed music as an artform for change. She grew up in a home full of music, from her violinist grandmother to her veena playing mother, Shanmukhavadivu Ammal. She gave her first performance at […]

Singer MS Subbulakshmi, the first Indian to perform at the United Nations in 1966, will be honoured by the world body with a stamp for her birth centenary