native_name_lang death_date death_place years_active label article_title native_name birth_date background genre origin name occupation
tam 31 october 1990 chennai , tamil nadu , india 1942 -- 1990 hmv inreco , vani , amutham inc , doordarshan , super , audio , geethanjali , kosmic music , charsur digital workshop emi etc. , rpg , avm audio , m. l. vasanthakumari
 மெட்ராஸ் லலிதாங்கி வசந்தகுமாரி 3 july 1928 solo_singer carnatic music -- indian classical music and playback singing madras , madras presidency , british india madras lalithangi vasanthakumari singer
m. l. vasanthakumari

madras lalitangi vasanthakumari -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- popularly referred to as mlv -rrb- -lrb- 3 july 1928 -- 31 october 1990 -rrb- , was a carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many indian languages .
mlv and her contemporaries d. k. pattammal and m. s. subbulakshmi were popularly referred to as the `` female trinity of carnatic music .
a prime disciple of the g. n. balasubramaniam , she was the youngest among the established musicians of that era , and was the youngest female awardee of the `` sangita kalanidhi '' award as well as being a much sought-after playback singer for films , mlv popularised unfamiliar ragas and her ragam thanam pallavis were considered cerebral .
additionally , she popularised the compositions of purandara dasa -lrb- and other dasas -rrb- , and was responsible for popularising his compositions `` baarokrishnayya '' , `` innu daya barade '' , among others .
her most famous disciples include srividya -lrb- her daughter -rrb- , sudha raghunathan , a. kanyakumari , charumathi ramachandran and meena subramanian
