Papanasam Sivan | |||||
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Birth name | Ramasarman | ||||
Also known as | Ramaiah | ||||
Born | Polagam, Tanjore District, Madras Presidency, British India (now Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, India) | 26 September 1890||||
Died | 1 October 1973 | (aged 83)||||
Genres | Carnatic music | ||||
Occupation(s) | singer, composer | ||||
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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]