Bombay Lakshmi Rajagopalan

Bombay Lakshmi Rajagopalan
Born	12 March 1959(1959-03-12) Matunga, Mumbai, India
Genres	Carnatic music

Bombay Lakshmi Rajagopalan (born 12 March 1959) is a Carnatic vocalist. She started in music at three. She is one of the widely known Matunga Sisters.

Her voice lends itself well to the Indian Carnatic classical songs. She has sung in more than seven languages including Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi and Sanskrit through her long career in music. She has climbed the musical ladder and acquired high proficiency by hard work and constant practice.^{[citation needed]}

Early life and background

Lakshmi was born in Mumbai called Matunga to Radha and T. V. Panchapakesan. She has four sisters who have also been honed in music. As a child she was trained at home by her mother and equally well supported by her father, later at Bhartiya Music & Arts Society, Mumbai. There her musical skills were meticulously honed by the veteran teacher of Mumbai, Smt T.R. Balamani.

She started singing at three, winning a major competition and awarded a prize at the age of eight from M. S. Subbulakshmi. After finishing her course in Bhartiya Music & Arts Society in 1974, she took the Madras Music Scene by storm and won several gold medal prizes and the coveted Thambhura prizes from Indian Fine Arts Society, the Music Academy, Shanmukhananda, Music Triangle, etc.

References

• Syed Muthahar, Saqaf (2007-01-12). "Casting a magic spell". The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/fr/2007/01/12/stories/2007011200030300.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-10. 
• B.R.C, Iyengar (2008-05-30). "Music that marks a puritan". The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/05/30/stories/2008053050170300.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-10. 
• WMC News Dept. (2008-09-20). "The Navratri Music Festival in Mayur Vihar – Delhi (India) 2008". World Music Central. http://worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/navratri_music_festival_2008. Retrieved 2009-07-10.