N.C.Vasanthakokilam

N.C.Vasanthakokilam [?? to 1950- - ] grew up in Nagappattinam, TamilNadu and succumbed to tuberculosis at an early age around the year 1950.

Not much information is available about her guru's or her musical journey, except that besides Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar kritis, she popularised many of S.Bharathi's songs in the years after Indian independence (late 1940s).

Her music

Her voice was melodious with perfect intonation, sruti, emotion and clear pronunciation of words. Her rendering of higher octaves and sruti were remarkably with effortless ease. She sang the following songs which became very popular:

* yen paLLi koNdeer ayyaa
* thanthai thaai irundhaal umakkindha
* nitiraiyil vandhu nenjil idam
* mahalakshmi jaganmatha
* aanandha nadanam aadinAL
* pozhudhu pularnthadhu yAm seidha thavathAl
* kuzhalOsai kEtkudhammA gOplakrishnan
* thanthai thaai irundhaal umakkindha
* nitiraiyil vandhu nenjil idam

Besides being a singer par excellence, Vasanthakokilam acted in about half a dozen movies like Kundalakesi, Chandra Gupta Chanakya, Haridas, Valmiki and more. Not many of her Carnatic renditions are available as CDs or audio recordings and those which are available contain both cinema and carnatic compositions which were concert pieces.