# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/g-n-balasubramaniam
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:01:32.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/g-n-balasubramaniam"
name: "G. N. Balasubramaniam"
slug: "g-n-balasubramaniam"
description: "Gudalur Narayanaswamy Balasubramaniam, popularly known as GNB, was an Indian Carnatic singer. He innovated the art through emphasis on laya control and reducing the gamakas which eventually made Carnatic music appeal to the lay and the learned alike. He was also a Tamil film actor. Ariyakudi Iyengar inspired him."
tagline: "Indian singer (1910–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G_N_Balasubramaniam_.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1910-01-06"
deathDate: "1965-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.41
  momentum:             4.076086956521738
  historical:           7.097590666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8599848/"
    handle:    "nm8599848"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump