{"id":23199,"date":"2026-07-14T04:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=23199"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:42:28","slug":"tamil-devotional-music-maestro-honoured-with-padma-shri-for-cultural-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2026\/07\/14\/tamil-devotional-music-maestro-honoured-with-padma-shri-for-cultural-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Devotional Music Maestro Honoured with Padma Shri for Cultural Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">INDIA, June 10, 2026 (YouTube): N. Swaminathan, eminent artist and head of the Thevara Padasalai of Dharumapuram Aadheenam, will be honored with the Padma Shri for his exceptional contribution to Tamil Pann Isai, traditional Thirumurai hymns, and the preservation of ancient musical discourses. Celebrated as a supreme artist and A grade All India Radio performer with an artistic journey spanning over 55 years, he has dedicated his life to carrying Tamil devotional music to global audiences across continents and releasing over 100 albums. He is deeply revered for his commitment to oral traditions, training generation after generation of students in the fine art of Thirumurai Isai at the grassroots level.<br><br>Watch the video of the man who sings 9,000 songs at source:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZX2sfW10tT0\n\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZX2sfW10tT0<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIA, June 10, 2026 (YouTube): N. Swaminathan, eminent artist and head of the Thevara Padasalai of Dharumapuram Aadheenam, will be,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23221,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199\/revisions\/23221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}