Nadaswaram exponent Sheik Mahaboob Subhani passes away

Nadaswaram exponent Sheik Mahaboob Subhani, who along with his wife Kaleeshabi Mahboob received the Padma Shri award in 2020, passed away after a brief illness at Srirangam on Wednesday. He was 71 and is survived by his wife and three children.

Representing the eighth generation of a family of nadaswaram vidwans, Sheik Mahaboob was originally from Peda Kothapalli village in Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh. He learned to play the nadaswaram from his grandfather and Andhra Pradesh State Government awardee Janab Sheik Chinna Peer Sahib, and later his father, Sheik Meera Sahib, from the age of seven.