P. S. Narayanaswamy

Puliyur Subramaniam Narayanaswamy (or Narayanaswami; 24 February 1934 – 16 October 2020) was a Carnatic music vocalist.

P. S. Narayanaswamy
P. S. Narayanaswamy
Background information
Birth name	Puliyur Subramaniam Narayanaswamy
Born	(1934-02-24)24 February 1934 Konerirajapuram, Thanjavur, Madras Presidency, British India
Died	16 October 2020(2020-10-16) (aged 86)
Genres	Carnatic music
Occupation	Musician

Career

He learnt music from Tiruppambaram Somasundaram Pillai, T. M. Thiagarajan and later from Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer. He was also a highly acclaimed teacher.^[1]

He was awarded the Bala Gana Kala Rathnam at the age of 12. He worked in All India Radio.^[2] In 1999, he was conferred the title, 'Sangita Kala Acharya' by the Music Academy.^[3] He was awarded `Padma Bhushan' by the Government of India in 2003.^[1][4][5][6] His well known disciples include (alphabetically) A.s.Murali, Akshay Padmanabhan, Abhishek Raghuram, Akkarai Sisters, Amritha Murali, Bharathi Ramasubban, C.R.Vaithyanathan, Gayathri Venkataraghavan, Kalavathy Avadhooth, Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna, Nisha Rajagopalan, Ranjani-Gayatri sisters, Bharat Sundar, Sunil Gargeyan, Vishnudev K S, Janani Iyer, and Prithvi Harish

He died on 16 October 2020 due to old age.^[7]