Passionate involvement and experience over the decades, enabled her to evolve her own style. Performances in a number of prestigious sabhas followed. Total dedication to the subject and rich guidance from her mentors helped her blossom into a rare blend of a musician, scholar and guru.Įndowed with a soothing and mellifluous voice, she announced her arrival into the arena of classical music by winning the First Prize in the All India Radio competition in 1967 and several other laurels all in a row. Janakiraman at the Music Academy, Madras. Her interest in musicology was kindled by her Professor Sri R.K.Ramanathan (University of Bangalore) and was later sharpened by Prof. She also pursued her academic studies and emerged as a University rank holder in M.A. of India) brought her back to Chennai for advanced training under the renowned doyen ‘Sangita Pitamaha’ Semmangudi Srinivasier, which honed her talents and broadened her musical vision. Subsequently a National Talent Scholarship (Govt. After the initial grooming for about a decade, a shift to Secunderabad gave her an opportunity to learn Hindustani Music from a veteran musician Sri Bhim Shankar Rao. Lakshmi and Sri Subramaniam decided to entrust her musical growth to a dedicated Guru Sri Kittamani Iyer.
Perceiving in their young daughter a natural flair for music, her parents Smt. Seetha Rajan, a versatile musician with about five decades of experience in the field, is respected as much for her unswerving adherence to tradition and classicism, as for her contribution to the propagation of the art to the younger generations.