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'Miss Melody of Karnataka' Smt.Shyamala Jagirdar (born 1941) has contributed immensely to the field of Sugama Sangeetha and played an important role in popularizing this art form across Karnataka along with her contemporaries like H.R Leelavathi and B.K.Sumithra. Her renditions on All India Radio and her performances at concerts and public gatherings are innumerable and great. In a career spanning more than 6 decades she has been recipient of many prestigious state awards and accolades. She was the president of 'Geetotsava' sugama sangeetha sammelana 2011.

Personal Life:
Smt. Shyamala Jagirdar was born on 5th April 1941 in Mysore. She is the daughter of Gopalachar Jagirdar and Krishnamma. Her father was a legal advisor in Gulbarga. Hence she grew up in Gulbarga. She was drawn to music at a very young age. With the support from her father, brothers and uncle, she began formal training at the age if seven from her first Guru Muragoud Krishna Dasa. She continued her training in Hindustani music from Pundit Avadooth Buva. In the year of 1954, she came to Bangalore and continued her education in music under Ramachandra Joshi.

She participated in various competitions and won number of prizes. She was well known for her multifluous vocal performances at various concerts and public gatherings in Bangalore and whole of Karnataka. Her Generes is hinudstani music, but she is successful in crossing the barriers of classical music and adding its subtlities to bhavageetha, patriotic songs, vachanas Meera bhajans and devotional songs in her sweet soulful voice. She has sung these songs for All India Radio, Public gatherings all over Karnataka. She has sung before various dignitaries like Dr.S Radhakrishnan, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Dr Zakir Hussain, V.V Giri, Mysore Raja Wadeyar and has been well appreciated. Her singing has also won accolades from foreign dignitaries of Nepal, Russia, Bulgana, etc. In her singing career spanning more than six decades, she has given more than 500 live performances and has been a receipant of various state awards. Her Concert in London is also widely acclaimed. Singing and popularizing Sugama sangeeth in her melodious voice, ‘Miss Melody of Karnataka’, ‘Sweet voice of Mysore’, ‘Nightingale of South’, ‘Raga Rajini’, ‘Bhava Kalanidhi’, ‘Gaana Kogile’ are some of the befitting accolades she has received.

Awards

 * ‘Karnataka Sangeetha Kala thilak’ in 1987-88 from Karnataka music and Dance Academy.
 * 1994-95 ‘Karnataka Rajyotsava’ award
 * 2003 ‘Sant Shishunala Sharifa’ award
 * 2005 ‘Sushira Shree’ award
 * 2005 ‘Kalinga Prathibha Ratna’ award.