M.S. Subbulakshmi - Carnatic Vocal
Born in the temple town of Madurai on September 16, 1916, to veena player Shanmukhavadivu, Subbulakshmi grew up surrounded by music. Subbulakshmi gave her first music recital when she was hardly ten years old and her first disc was also cut around that period. 

To this day, even when she is past 78, her voice remains as melodic, as vibrant and sweet as it was decades ago. Subbulakshmi has become a legend in her lifetime by dedicating her art for the service of the people and the nation.

Bhimsen Joshi
Bhimsen Joshi, who is riding the crest of popularity and has ridden it for the last several years, is a musical marvel. Many of his rivals admit, though unwillingly, that today there is no other vocalist comparable to him in the entire nation. Bhimsen, who is now in his 60s, has attained proficiency and fame that astound the musical world. 

His voice, like that legendary philosopher's stone, turns every note into a golden one. Billions of notes that have received the golden touch of his voice have been freely showered by him on the teeming millions of his fans. Bhimsen was born into a Brahmin family of Gadag in Karnataka. He composed two entirely new ragas.One was an admixture of Kalavati and Rageshri (he had aptly named it Kalashri), and the other was a beautiful fusion of ragas Lalit and Bhatiyar. In the later part of his career he came up with many more ragas.