Chennai, July 16 (IANS) Renowned carnatic and Tamil film playback singer D.K. Pattammal died here Thursday. She was 90.
Pattammal was a part of the female trinity of carnatic music, with two other popular musicians M.S. Subbulakshmi and M.L. Vasanthakumari, who were instrumental in the large scale initiation of women into the main stream carnatic music world. She was a recipient of Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1971 and 1998. ______________________________________________________________________ As we know, Pattammal had sung 'Jana Gana Mana', the Indian National Anthem with AR. I have zero knowledge about Carnatic music. But I this is a great loss for Indian classical Music.
