Papanasam Sivan
Personal Info
Known For Sound
Gender Male
Birthday 1890-09-26
Deathday 1972-10-01 (82 years old)
Place of Birth Polagam Village, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
Also Known As Sivan, Papanasam Sivan
Papanasam Sivan
Biography
Papanasam Sivan (26 September 1890 – 1 October 1973) was a prominent composer of Carnatic music and a singer. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1970. He was also the foremost film score composer in Kannada cinema as well as Tamil cinema in 1930s and 1940s. A famous composer, Sivan was also known as Tamil Thyagaraja. Using Classical South Indian as a base, Sivan created numerous hits popularised by M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and M. S. Subbulakshmi. In 1962, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.
Known For
Sound
as Music
as Music
as Music
as Music
as Original Music Composer
as Music
as Songs
as Music
as Songs
as Songs
as Music
as Music
as Songs
as Music Director
Writer
as Lyricist
Actor
as Sambu Sastri