Carnatic music
Tanjavur-style tambura
Concepts
Śruti Svara Rāga Tāḷa Mēḷakarta Asaṃpūrṇa Mēḷakarta
Compositions
Gītaṃ Svarajati Varṇaṃ Kr̥ti Kīrtana Rāgaṃ Tānaṃ Pallavi Tillana
Instruments
Melody Sarasvati Vīṇā Veṇu Nādasvaraṃ Goṭṭuvādyaṃ (Citra Vīṇā) Violin Percussion Mr̥daṅgaṃ Ghaṭaṃ Morsing Kanjira Thavil Drone Tambura Shruti box
Composers Glossary
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Carnatic music is the classical music of South India. The following lists provide links to concert artists who have been widely recognised.

Vocalists - born before 1800

Dharma Raja Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma, born 1724
Tyagaraja, born 1767
Irayimman Thampi, born 1782
Shadkala Govinda Marar, born 1798, Endaro Mahanubhavulu was sung by Tyagaraja after he heard Marar sing.

Vocalists - born between 1801 and 1900

Manambuchavadi Venkatasubbayyar, born 1803
Subbaraya Sastri, born 1803 - rare honour to learn from the Trinity of Carnatic Music.
Palghat Parameswara Bhagavathar, born 1815
Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan, born 1844
Patnam Subramania Iyer, born 1845
Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar, born 1860
Mysore Vasudevachar, born 1865
Tiger Varadachariar, born 1876
Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu, born 1883
Madurai Pushpavanam
Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, born 1890
Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, born 1896
Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer, born 1896
Chittoor Subramaniam Pillai, born 1898
Musiri Subramania Iyer, born 1899

Vocalists - born between 1901 and 1925

Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, born 1908
K. B. Sundarambal, born 1908
Lalita Venkatram, born 1909
G. N. Balasubramaniam, born 1910
Alathur Brothers: Srinivasa Iyer (born 1911) & Sivasubramania Iyer (born 1916)
Madurai Mani Iyer, born 1912
Mannargudi Sambasiva Bhagavatar, born 1912
T. Brinda, born 1912
T. Muktha, born 1914
M. S. Subbulakshmi, born 1916
Sattur A. G. Subramaniam, born 1916
S. Ramanathan, born 1917
Vasundhara Devi, born 1917
Ramnad Krishnan, born 1918
Rajam Pushpavanam, born 1918
D. K. Pattammal, born 1919
Madurai Somasundaram, born 1919
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, born 1919
N. C. Vasanthakokilam, born 1919
R. K. Srikantan, born 1920
B. Rajam Iyer, born 1922
Manakkal Rangarajan, born 1922
K. V. Narayanaswamy, born 1923
M. D. Ramanathan, born 1923

Valliyur Gurumurthy

Vocalists - born between 1926 and 1950

L.P.R. Varma, born 1926
Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy, born 1927
M. L. Vasanthakumari, born 1928
Maharajapuram Santhanam, born 1928
Vairamangalam LakshmiNarayanan, born 1928
D. K. Jayaraman, born 1928
Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, born 1930
S. Kalyanaraman, born 1930
N. Lalitha Bhanu, born 1931
T. V. Gopalakrishnan, born 1932
Radha Jayalakshmi Sisters, born 1932
Seerkazhi Govindarajan, born 1933
P. S. Narayanaswamy, born 1934
P Leela, born 1934
R. Vedavalli, born 1935
Bombay Sisters - C.Saroja (1936) and C.Lalitha (1938)
Jon B. Higgins, born 1939
Pattu Rajagopalan
Trichur V. Ramachandran, born 1940
K. J. Yesudas, born 1940
T. V. Sankaranarayanan, born 1945
O. S. Thyagarajan, born 1947
Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan, born 1948
Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, born 1948
Hyderabad Brothers - D. Seshachari and D. Raghavachari

Vocalists born between 1951 and 1975

Charumathi Ramachandran, born 1951
Aruna Sairam, born 1952
Sudha Ragunathan, born 1956
Bellary M Raghavendra, born 1958
Bombay Lakshmi Rajagopalan, born 1959
Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram, born 1959
K. S. Chithra, born 1963
Neyveli Santhanagopalan, born 1963
P. Unnikrishnan, born 1966
Shankar Mahadevan, born 1967
Vijay Siva, born 1967
Sanjay Subrahmanyan, born 1968
Aswathi Thirunal Rama Varma, born 1968
S. Sowmya, born 1969
Malladi Brothers - Sreeram Prasad (1971) and Ravi Kumar (1973)
Gayathri Girish, born 1973
Nithyashree Mahadevan, born 1973

Vocalists born between 1976 and 2000

Ranjani-Gayatri - Ranjani (born 1973) and Gayatri (born 1976)
T. M. Krishna, born 1976
Vishaka Hari, born 1978
Nisha Rajagopalan, born 1980
Trichur Brothers - Srikrishna (born 1980) and Raamkumar (born 1983)
Sriram Parthasarathy, born 1981
Ranjani Hebbar, born 1981
Sikkil Gurucharan, born 1982
Saketharaman, born 1982
Ramakrishnan Murthy, born 1989
Abhishek Raghuram, born 1985
Sid Sriram, born 1990
K. V. Krishna Prasad, born 1988
S. Aishwarya born in 1995
Sivani Saraswathula born in 1990

Vocalists - born after 2000

Rahul Vellal, born 2007

Other vocalists

Chong Chiu Sen
Gayathri Venkataraghavan
Geetha Rajashekar
S. J. Jananiy
Bombay Jayashri
Mahathi
Vedavathi Prabhakar
Priya Sisters - Vemuri Shanmukha Priya and Hari Priya
Pantula Rama
Ramakrishnan Murthy
Sampagodu Vighnaraja
Sreevalsan J Menon
M. S. Sheela
R. Suryaprakash
Vani Sateesh
Vidya Subramanian
Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam
Visalakshi Nityanand

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