Carnatic Music
Concepts
Sruti • Swara • Raga • Tala • Melakarta
Compositions
Varnam • Kriti • Geetham • Swarajati • Ragam Thanam Pallavi • Thillana
Instruments
Veena • Mridangam • Ghatam • Morsing • Kanjira • Pullankuzhal • Violin • Tambura
Composers
List of Carnatic composers

Carnatic music is the classical music of South India. Some of the more popular carnatic singers are:

• Alathur Brothers
• Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
• Aruna Sairam
• Balaji Shankar
• Bombay Jayashree
• Bombay Lakshmi Rajagopalan
• Bombay Sisters
• Bhushani Kalyanaraman
• Bhavana Radhakrishnan
• Charumathi Ramachandran
• Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar
• Chittoor Subramaniam Pillai
• D. K. Jayaraman
• D. K. Pattammal
• G.N.Balasubramaniam
• Gayathri Girish
• Gayathri Venkataraghavan
• Geetha Rajashekar
• Hyderabad Brothers
• K. J. Yesudas
• Malladi Brothers
• Jayalakshmi Santhanam
• Jon B. Higgins
• K. Gayatri
• K. V. Narayanaswamy
• Kalpakam Swaminathan
• K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer
• K. R. Kedaranathan
• M. D. Ramanathan
• M. L. Vasanthakumari
• M. S. Subbulakshmi
• Madurai Mani Iyer
• Madurai R. Sundar
• Madurai Sri Somasundaram
• Madurai Srirangam Iyengar
• Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan
• Maharajapuram Santhanam
• Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer
• Manakkal Rangarajan
• Mani Krishnaswamy
• Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna
• Meera Kedaranathan
• Musiri Subramania Iyer
• Mysore V. Ramarathnam
• N. C. Vasanthakokilam
• Neyveli Santhanagopalan
• Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy
• Nithyashree Mahadevan
• Nisha Rajagopalan
• O. S. Arun
• O. S. Thyagarajan
• Pallai Ramachandran
• Pantula Rama
• P. S. Narayanaswamy
• Prapancham Sita Ram
• Priya Sisters
• Prema Hariharan
• Pushpa Anandh
• Patrick Ngcobo
• Sankari Krishnan
• Sathish Rao
• Sreevalsan J. Menon
• S. Kalyanaraman
• S. Ramanathan
• R. Vedavalli
• R. Ganesh
• Radha and Jayalakshmi
• Rama Ravi
• Ramnad Krishnan
• Ranjani-Gayatri
• Ranjani Guruprasad(Hebbar)
• Sairam Soundararajan
• Sangeetha Sivakumar
• Sikkil Gurucharan
• Sanjay Subrahmanyan
• Sankaran Namboodri
• Sattur A.G. Subramaniam
• Seerkazhi Govindarajan
• Seerkazhi G. Sivachidambaram
• Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
• Seetha Rajan
• S. Sowmya
• Shobha Sekhar
• Sudha Raghunathan
• Suguna Varadachari
• Suguna Purushothaman
• R. Suryaprakash
• T. M. Krishna
• T. N. S. Krishna
• T. V. Sankaranarayanan
• Tiger Varadachariar
• Trichy S. Gurunathan
• Trichur V. Ramachandran
• Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam
• Trivandrum R. S. Mani
• T. Muktha
• T. Brinda
• T. K. Rangachari
• T.K. Govinda Rao
• T. V. Gopalakrishnan
• T. V. Soundaravalli
• P. Unni Krishnan
• Vaikom Vanaja Sankar
• Veeramanidasan
• Vairamangalam LakshmiNarayanan
• Vasundhara Rajagopal
• Vijay Siva
• Visalakshi Nityanand
• Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam
• Vishaka Hari
• Voleti Venkatesvarulu
• VV Subrahmanyam
• VVS Murari
• VV Ravi
• C.S.Sajeev
• Kollam Balamuralikrishna
• Thanjavur Thiagarajan[1]