K V Narayanaswamy

Kollengode Viswanatha Narayanaswamy,popularly known as KVN was born on 15 November 1923, in Palghat, in a family of continuing music tradition. His father Fiddle Viswanatha Bhagavatar was a violinist of repute; his grand father Narayana Bhagavatar and his great grandfather Viswam Bhagavatar were also musicians. It was but natural therefore that, right from his childhood, the family was keen that he should be a musician. Even though he was to be trained to become a vocalist,his first guru was mridangam vidwan Palghat Mani Iyer.