# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/k-v-narayanaswamy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:31:50.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/k-v-narayanaswamy"
name: "K. V. Narayanaswamy"
slug: "k-v-narayanaswamy"
description: "Palghat Kollengode Viswanathan Narayanaswamy, often referred to as K. V. Narayanaswamy was an Indian musician, widely considered to be among the finest Carnatic music vocalists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1986. He was described as the \"Perfect Knight\" of Carnatic music, a phrase from Geoffrey Chaucer, by V. K. Narayana Menon, art critic of India and recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship."
tagline: "South Indian Carnatic Musician (1923-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/K.V._Narayanaswamy%2C_Padma_Narayanaswamy.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: "1923-11-15"
deathDate: "2002-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.949425333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump