# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-k-srikantan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:59:31.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-k-srikantan"
name: "R. K. Srikantan"
slug: "r-k-srikantan"
description: "Rudrapatna Krishnashastri Srikantan, known as R. K. Srikantan, was a vocalist of the Carnatic musical tradition of South Indian music. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1995."
tagline: "Indian classical singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/R_k_srikantan_carnatic_concert.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: "1920-01-14"
deathDate: "2014-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.5
  momentum:             16.67364016736402
  historical:           5.543377333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump