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Viji Subramaniam, also known as Viji Shankar, was an Indian singer. She was the daughter of singer Lakshmi Shankar and Rajendra Shankar. Like her mother and uncle, Subramaniam was a musician and trained in both the Indian classical systems. Subramaniam was born Vijayashree Shankar in Madras into a south Indian Brahmin family and grew up in Bombay. A singer from an early age, she regularly accompanied her mother in concert, often playing tambura also. Among the prizes she received for her performances as a singer on radio and television, Subramaniam won the All India Radio "President of India" medal in 1972. In his 1997 autobiography, Raga Mala, Shankar described her voice as "sweet and lovely". In addition to performing internationally with Lakshmi, she played tambura at some of Shankar's sitar recitals with tablist Alla Rakha during the early 1970s. In 1974, together with her aunt Kamala Chakravarty and Lakshmi, Viji joined Shankar's Music Festival from India, a revue sponsored by George Harrison. She also sang on the studio album Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India, produced by Harrison and recorded at his English estate, Friar Park. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viji_Su...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
