Hindi Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, also known as the Akademi Puraskar, is given by Sangeet Natak Akademi. The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is given to honour people in the field of performing arts. The first award was given in 1952. Along with the cash prize, the recipients are given a brass plaque and a shawl.

The recipients for Hindustani vocals in 1952 is Mushtaq Hussain Khan; 1953 is  Kesarbai Kerkar Kesarbai Kerkar was a Hindi vocalist based in Indi >> Read More... ; 1954 is  Rajab Ali Khan Bio coming soon... >> Read More... ; 1955 is Anant Manohar Joshi; 1956 is Rajabhaiyya Poonchhwale; 1957 is Rasoolan Bai; 1958 is Ganesh Ramachandra Behere; 1959 is Krishnarao Shankar Pandit; 1960 is Altaf Hussain Khan; 1961 is Y. S. Mirashi Buwa; 1962 is Bade Ghulam Ali Khan; 1963 is Omkarnath Thakur; 1964 is Rahimuddin Khan Dagar; 1965 is  Hirabai Barodekar Hirabai Barodekar was a legendary Indian classical >> Read More... ; 1966 is Siddheswari Devi; 1967 is  Amir Khan Amir Iqbal Khan is a former professional boxer fro >> Read More... ; 1968 is Mogubai Kurdikar; 1969 is Ramchatur Mallick; 1970 is Nisar Hussain Khan; 1971 is  Mallikarjun Mansur Pandit Mallikarjun Bheemaraayappa Mansur, also kno >> Read More... ; 1972 is  Begum Akhtar Begum Akhtar’s birth name was ‘Akhtari Bai Faizaba >> Read More... ; 1973 is  Gangubai Hangal Bio coming soon... >> Read More... ; 1974 is  Kumar Gandharva Bio coming soon... >> Read More... ; 1975 is  Bhimsen Joshi Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi was born on 4th February 192 >> Read More... ; 1975-76 Gavri Devi ; 1976 is Narayanrao Vyas; 1977 is Girija Devi; 1978 is Khadim Hussain Khan; 1979 is Sarachchandra Arolkar; 1980 is Nivruttibua Sarnaik; 1981 is Basavaraj Rajguru; 1982 is  Vasantrao Deshpande Vasantrao Deshpande, born on May 2, 1920, was a Hi >> Read More... ; 1983 is Mahadev Prasad Mishra; 1984 is Sharafat Hussain Khan; 1985 are Kishori Amonkar, Aminuddin Dagar; 1986 are Gavri Devi ; 1986 are Asgari Bai, Firoz Dastur, and Manik Varma Padmashri Manik Varma was one of the legendary cla >> Read More... ; 1987 are C. R. Vyas, Shobha Gurtu, and Pandit Jasraj Pandit Jasraj is a classical vocalist. He received >> Read More... ,; 1988 is Padmavati Gokhale Shaligram; 1989 is  Jitendra Abhisheki Jitendra Abhisheki is a music composer .He is a sc >> Read More... ; 1990 are K. G. Ginde and Dhondutai Kulkarni; 1991 are N. Zahiruddin Dagar and Prabha Atre; 1992 are Ramarao V. Naik and Shiv Kumar Shukla; 1993 are Bala Saheb Poochwale and Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar; 1994 are Sulochana Brahaspati and Zia Fariddudin Dagar; 1995 is A. Kanan; 1996 are Dinkar Kaikini Dinkar Kaikini is a renowned Hindi Musical artist, >> Read More... and Hafeez Ahmed Khan; 1997 is L. K. Pandit; 1998 are Puttaraj Gawaigalu, Parveen Sultana, Rajan, and Sajan Mishra; 1999 - 2000 are Ajoy Chakraborty, Rita Ganguly, and Malabika Kanan; 2001 are Abhay Narayan Mallick, Sangameshwar Gurav, and Malini Rajurkar; 2002 are Sushila Rani Patel and Sharayu Kalekar; 2003 are Ghulam Mustafa Khan and Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi; 2004 are Balwant Rai Bhatt, Tejpal Singh, and  Surinder Singh Bio coming soon... >> Read More... ; 2005 are S. C. R. Bhat and Ramashreya Jha; 2006 are Vijay Kumar Kichlu and  Rashid Khan Rashid khan is a classical vocalist known for his >> Read More... ; 2007 are Vidyadhar Vyas and Govardhan Mishra; 2008 are Ulhas Kashalkar and M.R. Gautam; 2009 are Abdul Rashid Khan Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan born on 19th August 1908, >> Read More... and Vasundhara Komkali; 2010 are Chhannulal Mishra Pandit Chhannulal Mishra was a great classical sin >> Read More... and Yashpaul; 2011 are Shruti Sadolikar and Pandit Venkatesh Kumar; 2012 are Shankar Lal Mishra, Rajashekhar Mansur, and Ajay Pohankar Ajay Pohankar was born on 24 February 1947 into a >> Read More... ; 2013 are Ritwik Sanyal and  Veena Sahasrabuddhe Indian vocalist Veena Sahasrabuddhe, a native of K >> Read More... ; 2014 are Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Iqbal Ahmad Khan, and Nathrao Neralkar; 2015 is Mashkoor Ali Khan; 2016 is Prabhakar Karekar; 2017 are Lalith J. Rao, Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha Ramakant Gundecha belongs to the famous brother gr >> Read More... - Gundecha Brothers; 2018 are Mani Prasad Bio coming soon... >> Read More... and Madhup Mudgal; 2019 are Vinayak Torvi and Prem Kumar Mallick; 2020 are Sumitra Guha and Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar; 2021 are Uday Bhawalkar and  Subhra Guha Bio coming soon... >> Read More... ; 2022 are Devaki Pandit Devaki Pandit is an Indian classical singer born o >> Read More... and Harvinder Singh Harvinder Singh is an actor who works in the Punja >> Read More... , and the recipients in 2023 are  Kalapini Komkali Bio coming soon... >> Read More... and Vinod Kumar Dwivedi.

The recipients for classical vocal in 1952 is Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar; 1953 is Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer; 1954 is Mysore K. Vasudevacharya; 1955 is Maharajapuram Vishwanatha Iyer; 1956 is M. S. Subbulakshmi; 1957 is Musiri Subramania Iyer; 1958 is Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar; 1959 is G. N. Balasubramaniam; 1960 is Madurai Mani Iyer; 1961 is Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer; 1962 is D. K. Pattammal; 1963 is B. Devendrappa; 1964 is Chittoor S. Subramanyam; 1965 is T. Brinda; 1966 is Madurai Srirangam Iyengar; 1967 is C. Venkata Rao; 1968 is Alathur Srinivasa Iyer; 1969 is Dandapani Desikar; 1970 is M. L. Vasanthakumari; 1971 is N. Channakeshaviah; 1972 is T. Muktha; 1973 is B.S. Raja Iyengar; 1974 is M. D. Ramanathan; 1975 is M. Balamurali Krishna; 1976 is K.V.Narayanaswamy; 1977 is Sripada Pinakapani; 1978 is Madurai S. Somasundaram; 1979 is R K Srikanthan; 1980 is Seerkhazhi S. Govindarajan; 1981 is Radha and Jayalakshmi; 1982 is T. M. Thiagarajan; 1983 is D. K. Jayaraman; 1984 is Maharajapuram V. Santhanam; 1985 is Voleti Venkatesvarulu; 1986 is B. Rajam Iyer; 1986 is Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy; 1987 is Madurai N. Krishnan; 1987 is  Mani Krishnaswami Bio coming soon... >> Read More... ; 1988 is Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana; 1989 is Titte Krishna Iyengar; 1990 is T. V. Sankaranarayanan; 1991 is S. Rajam; 1992 is K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer; 1993 is Trichy Swaminathan Iyer; 1994 is C. S. Krishna Iyer Krishna Iyer is a professional playback singer, ra >> Read More... ; 1995 is R. Vedavalli; 1996 is T. K. Govinda Rao; 1997 is M. S. Balasubramanya Sarma; 2000 is S. R. Janakiraman; 2001 is B. V. Raman; 2002 is T. R. Subramaniam; 2003 are Trichur V. Ramachandran and M. A. Narasimhachar; 2004 are Thiruvengadu A. Jayaraman, C. Saroja, and C. Lalitha; 2005 are S. V. Parthasarrathy and P. S. Narayanaswamy; 2006 are D. Pasupathi and Chingleput Ranganathan; 2007 is B. Krishnamoorti; 2008 is Puranam Purushottama Sastri; 2009 is Parassala B Ponnammal; 2010 are Suguna Purushothaman and Mysore Nagamani Srinath; 2011 is J. Venkataraman; 2012 is O. S. Thyagarajan; 2013 are  Aruna Sairam Aruna Sairam (also spelled Sayeeram) is a well-kno >> Read More... , D. Seshchari and D. Raghavachari ; 2014 is Neyveli Santhanagopalan; 2015 are R.N. Tharanathan, Suguna Varadachari, and R.N. Thiagarajan; 2016 are Neela Ramgopal and K. Omanakutty; 2017 is M. S. Sheela; 2018 are Alamelu Mani and Malladi Suribabu; 2019 are Charumathi Ramachandran and Palai C.K. Ramachandran; 2020 are R. K. Padmanabha and G. Balakrishna Prasad; 2021 are Sudha Ragunathan and Radha Namboodiri; 2022 are Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran and Manda Sudharani, and the recipients in 2023 are  Bombay Jayashri Jayashri Ramnath or Bombay Jayashri, as she is kno >> Read More... and Shankar Sastry.

Besides these vocals, Been/Rudra Veena/Vichitra Veena, Flute, Guitar, Harmonium, Pakhavaj, Santoor, Sarangi, Sarod, Shehnai, Sitar, Surbahar, Tabla, Violin, Clarionet, Ghatam, Gottuvadhyam, Kanjira, Mandolin, Mridangam, Nadaswaram, Saxophone, Thavil, Veena, Violin, Bharatanatyam, Chhau, Creative dance/Choreography, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi, and Sattriya exponents are also awarded.

Creative and experimental music, Other major traditions of music, Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre, and Music for dance are also some awards given. Besides these, theatre personalities from various languages are also awarded.