Gopal Gandhi on M. S. Subbulakshmi
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“Sarojini Naidu repositioned her own title of Nightingale of India on to Subbalakshmi’s avian frame, it was because that daughter of Bengal saw the gift of song arriving and alighting on this daughter of India’s south, like a migratory bird from the collective genius of our music.”
“She incandesced as she sang. Her singing voice employed more than the process of phonation, more than the scope of the larynx.”