Damal Krishna Pattamal

This great Indian classical singer will always be remembered for shattering the conventional male dominance in this genre. In an era when audiences tended to lampoon the idea of female performers, D.K. Pattammal was part of the so-called holy trinity, or female trinity, of carnatic music which also included colleagues Bharat Ratna and M.L. Vasanthakumari. She was not born into a family of musicians, already an unusual development among Indian classical performers. Nonetheless, she was considered an extremely gifted child and was able to pick up and repeat prayers her father re...