That by itself, I consider a privilege��� To hear her sing was inspirational. Also, you are in the presence of perfection and excellence, and something that is so magnificent and phenomenal, for which you have no words. Additionally, she was my grand-aunt��� a grandmother for all intent and purposes. ���I���d rather say she was a guru than a teacher. Of course, then, the songs that I had to sing with her, were taught to me by her directly, and that is about how much I have been formally trained by her,��� she says. I sang with her for a long time, even though she was already in her 60s when I became her accompanist. So, when she fell sick, she couldn���t perform alongside MS like she used to. She was not just her daughter and her accompanist, but was like MS���s computer, on top of every single aspect of MS���s life.
Eventually, it was MS���s daughter Radha���s illness that brought Gowri back to music. But my interest lay in writing,��� says Gowri. I had my formal training under PS Narayanaswami Iyer, a disciple of Semmangudi Srinivas Iyer, who was MS���s guru. I wasn���t trained formally by MS, but I grew up listening to her concerts. ���My learning of music happened purely by osmosis.
In a house that was filled with music, it was but natural that some of it influenced Gowri, the first girl granddaughter of the family. Her father (T Sadasivam���s nephew), having lost his parents, was brought up by MS amma. Gowri Ramnarayan recounts facets of her beloved paati���s colourful life, in a conversation that is as amusing as it is poignant, and as nostalgic as the music of MS that we have all grown up listening to��� A shy girl from Madurai, a singer par excellence, a nationalist, an actress, a traditional woman, a woman who never said a harsh word all her life��� these are only some facets to the MS Subbulakshmi ( MS Amma) that we have heard of, or read about.
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