Papanasam Sivan

Papanasam Sivan
Birth nameRamasarman
Also known asRamaiah
Born(1890-09-26)26 September 1890
Polagam, Tanjore District, Madras Presidency,
British India
(now Nagapattinam district,
Tamil Nadu, India)
Died1 October 1973(1973-10-01) (aged 83)
GenresCarnatic music
Occupation(s)singer, composer
Papanasam Sivan
RelativesV. N. Janaki (niece)
M. G. Ramachandran
(nephew-in-law)

Paapanaasam Raamayya Sivan (26 September 1890 – 1 October 1973[1]) was an Indian composer of Carnatic music and a singer. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1971. He was also a film score composer in Kannada cinema as well as Tamil cinema in the 1930s and 1940s.[2]

Sivan was also known as Tamil Thyaagaraja. Using Classical South Indian music as a base, Sivan created compositions popularised by M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, D. K. Pattammal, and M. S. Subbulakshmi.

In 1962, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.[3]

  1. ^ Tamizh Thyaagayyar – The life and Music of Paapanaasam Sivan : Lec-Dem by Dr.Rukmini Ramani
  2. ^ Mark Slobin (29 September 2008). Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 122–. ISBN 978-0-8195-6882-3. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  3. ^ "SNA: List of Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Puraskar winners (Akademi Fellows)". Official website.

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