Kerala: N P Ramaswamy passes away

KOCHI: Veteran Carnatic

musician N P Ramaswamy

passed away here on Tuesday. He was 88. A top-ranking artist of

All India Radio

, Ramaswamy was born in an illustrious family of musicians — his great-great-grandfather was the chief palace musician in the court of Swati Tirunal, king of erstwhile Travancore and a composer himself. His father N P R Iyer was a musician.


Ramaswamy is survived by two sons Parasuraman and Subrahmanyan.

The cremation would be held at Corporation cemetery at Koovappadam at 10am on Wednesday. tnn


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