Bombay Sisters

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Name Bombay Sisters Role Musical duo		Active from 1963 Genres Carnatic music

Occupation(s) Classical Vocalist, Duo singers Albums Marriage Songs, Popular Annamacharya Krithis Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Carnatic Music - Vocal Similar Priya Sisters, M S Subbulakshmi, Sudha Ragunathan, Muthuswami Dikshitar, M Balamuralikrishna

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The Bombay sisters, C. Saroja and C. Lalitha, are a Carnatic music singing duo.

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Early life

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C. Saroja and C. Lalitha are sisters who have been trained by H. A. S. Mani, Musiri Subramania Iyer and T. K. Govinda Rao.

Career

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Part of the trend of duo singing in Carnatic music, which started in the 1950s, with performers like Radha Jayalakshmi, and Soolamangalam Sisters, they have been singing since 1963 when they started with light classical music, subsequently progressing to Strong Carnatic and classical music; they sing in multiple languages including Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi. They are also known for promoting young musicians through endowments and scholarships.

Awards

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Isai Peraringar Award, 2006; awarded by the Tamil Isai Sangam

Sangeetha Kalasikhamani, 2006 awarded by The Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai

Kalaimamani for contributions to Carnatic music.

First women to be conferred the status of Asthana Vidushi by the Kanchi matha.

Sangeetha Kalanidhi Award for the year 2010 from the Madras Music Academy.

Sangeetha Choodamani Award for the year 1991 from the Sri Krishna Gana Sabha.

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References

Bombay Sisters Wikipedia

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