{"id":618,"date":"2018-02-23T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2018-02-23T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T11:51:19","slug":"madras-lalitangi-vasanthakumari-mlv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/2018\/02\/23\/madras-lalitangi-vasanthakumari-mlv\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends of Music &#8211; Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari (MLV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-619 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Mlv-141x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mlv\" width=\"141\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari<\/strong> (popularly referred to as <strong>MLV<\/strong>) (July 3, 1928 &#8211; October 31, 1990), was a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. MLV and her contemporaries D. K. Pattammal and M. S. Subbulakshmi were popularly referred to as the &#8220;female trinity of Carnatic Music. A prime disciple of the G. N. Balasubramaniam, she was the youngest among the established musicians of that era, and was the youngest female awardee of the <em>Sangita Kalanidhi<\/em> award.<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MLVasanthakumari1-2.jpg\" alt=\"MLVasanthakumari1\" width=\"560\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MLVasanthakumari1-2.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MLVasanthakumari1-2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MLVasanthakumari1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"MLVasanthakumari1\" width=\"585\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MLVasanthakumari1-1-1.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MLVasanthakumari1-1-1-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As well as being a much sought-after playback singer for films, MLV popularised unfamiliar ragas and her Ragam Thanam Pallavis were considered cerebral. Additionally, she popularised the compositions of Purandara Dasa (and other Dasas), and was responsible for popularizing his compositions <em>Baarokrishnayya<\/em>, <em>Innu daya barade<\/em>, among others. Her most famous disciples include Srividya (her daughter), Sudha Raghunathan, A. Kanyakumari, Charumathi Ramachandran and Meena Subramanian.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MLVasanthakumari2-2.jpg\" alt=\"MLVasanthakumari2\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MLVasanthakumari2-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MLVasanthakumari2-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari (popularly referred to as MLV) (July 3, 1928 &#8211; October 31, 1990), was a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. MLV and her contemporaries D. K. Pattammal and M. S. Subbulakshmi were popularly referred to as the &#8220;female trinity of Carnatic Music. 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