While maestros like Pandit Ravi Shankar of India and the late Nusrat Ali Khan of Pakistan, along with the show-biz tunes of Bollywood, put South Asian pop-classical music on the global map, it was Subbulakshmi who introduced Carnatic music to the West. Subbulakshmi was more than a voice - she was the very embodiment of a centuries-old music tradition that lives on in the homes of millions of Indians in the subcontinent and around the globe. Known widely as just "M.S.," she was the greatest singer of Carnatic music, the South Indian genre that's considered to be one of the oldest systems of devotional music in the world. SINGAPORE - She was known as the "nightingale of India," but that scarcely captured what Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi - who died on Saturday at the age of 88 - was all about.
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