Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan took upon herself the task of researching, reviving and recording the precious gems of Tamil folk art. The spirit of folk songs lies in this oral transmission among people. Reviving The Spirit of the PastĬompiling folk songs is not an easy task as they arise from a particular region and pass around from one generation to another, without any written recordings.
Her extraordinary contribution to Tamil folk music gained her the nation’s fourth-highest civilian award, Padma Shri, in 2018. In the 1990s, with the release of Vijayalakshmi’s Tamil folk song cassettes, a huge commercial market opened up for Tamil folk songs. Folk songs enjoy popularity only in the places they have sprung out from. In an age when film songs have taken over the music industry, Vijayalakshmi recorded Tamil folk songs on cassettes making it a favourite of Tamil Nadu. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan is a name that changed the scene for Tamil folk songs.
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