K.S. Narayanaswamy

K.S. Narayanaswamy was born in 1914 in Koduvayoor, Kerala, and was a veena musician. At age 14, he enrolled in the Sangeetha Bhooshanam course at Annamalai University in Chidambaram. He learned music under Sabesa Iyer, Tanjore Ponniah Pillai, and Desamangalam Subramania Iyer. He was a lecturer at Annamalai University from 1937 to 1946. He took a lectureship in veena at the Swati Tirunal Music Academy and subsequently became its principal. He served as principal of the Sangeetha Vidyalaya of Shanmukhananda Fine Arts and Sangeetha Sabha in Bombay from 1970 onward. He received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1968, the Padma Bhushan in 1977, and the Sangita Kalanidhi title in 1979. He died in 1999 at the age of 85.