Nadaswaram exponent Sheik Mahaboob Subhani passes away

Nadaswaram exponent Sheik Mahaboob Subhani, who on with his woman Kaleeshabi Mahboob received the Padma Shri grant successful 2020, passed distant aft a little unwellness astatine Srirangam connected Wednesday. He was 71 and is survived by his woman and 3 children.

Representing the eighth procreation of a household of nadaswaram vidwans, Sheik Mahaboob was primitively from Peda Kothapalli colony successful Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh. He learned to play the nadaswaram from his gramps and Andhra Pradesh State Government awardee Janab Sheik Chinna Peer Sahib, and aboriginal his father, Sheik Meera Sahib, from the property of seven.