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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award For Carnatic Music (Vocal)
The winners of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Carnatic vocal Music are some of the greatest talents of Indian music.

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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award For Carnatic Music (Vocal)The highest national award for performing arts in India, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award was incepted in 1952. The prime body for performing arts in India, the Sangeet Natak Akademi presents the award to the committed artistes in various categories. Two of the principal categories of this award are Hindustani Music and Carnatic Music. These two categories are further divided into divisions like Vocal and Instrumental. The Instrumental divisions are again divided into several sub-categories depending on the instruments played in India. The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Carnatic Music (Vocal) has been presented to several artistes since 1954.

The detail list of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award winners in Carnatic Music (Vocal) is given below:

Year Vocal Player Year Vocal Player
1952 Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar 1980 Seerkhazhi S. Govindarajan
1953 Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer 1981 Radha and Jayalakshmi
1954 Mysore K. Vasudevacharya 1982 T.M. Thiagarajan
1955 Maharajapuram Vishwanatha Iyer 1983 D. K. Jayaraman
1956 M. S. Subbulakshmi 1984 Maharajapuram V. Santhanam
1957 Musiri Subramania Iyer 1985 Voleti Venkatesvarulu
1958 Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar 1986 B. Rajam Iyer
1959 G. N. Balasubramaniam 1987 Madurai N. Krishnan
1960 Madurai Mani Iyer 1987 Mani Krishnaswami"
1961 Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer 1988 Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana
1962 D. K. Pattammal 1989 Titte Krishna Iyengar
1963 B. Devendrappa 1990 T. V. Sankaranarayanan
1964 Chittoor S. Subramanyam 1991 S. Rajam
1965 T. Brinda 1992 K.R. Kumaraswamy Iyer
1966 M.R. Srirengam Iyengar 1993 Trichy Swaminathan Iyer
1967 C. Venkata Rao 1994 C.S. Krishna Iyer
1968 Alathur Srinivasa Iyer 1995 R. Vedavalli
1969 Dandapani Desigar 1996 T.K. Govinda Rao
1970 M. L. Vasanthakumari 1997 M.S. Balasubramanya Sarma
1971 N. Channakeshaviah 2002 T.R. Subramanyam
1972 T. Muktha 2003 Trichur V. Ramachandran, M.A. Narasimhachar
1973 B.S. Raja Iyengar 2004 Thiruvengadu A Jayaraman
1974 M. D. Ramanathan 2005 S. V. Parthasarrathy, P. S. Narayanaswamy
1975 M. Balamurali Krishna 2006 Chingleput Ranganathan, D. Pasupathi
1976 K.V.Narayanaswamy 2007 B. Krishnamoorti
1977 Sripada Pinakapani 2008 Puranam Purushottama Sastri
1978 Madurai S. Somasundaram 2009 Parassala B Ponnammal
1979 R K Srikanthan


Apart from the Carnatic Music (Vocal), the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is also presented to the artistes for Creative Music.

An elaborated list of the winners of Sangeet Natak Akademi for Creative Music is given below:
Year Creative Music Year Creative Music
2002 K.P. Udayabhanu 1988 Bhaskar Chandavarkar
2001 S. Rajaram 1986 Anil Biswas, M.B. Srinivasan, Hemanta Kumar Mukhapadhyay
1998 Vishwa Mohan Bhatt 1983 Chidambaram S. Jayaraman
1997 Satish Bhatia 1982 Vijay Raghav Rao
1995 Atul Desai 1978 Rai Chand Boral
1994 V. Balsara 1976 Timir Baran Bhattacharya
1990 L. Subramaniam 1973 Vishnudas Shirali
1989 Vanraj Bhatia    



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