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'''Chakra Tanam''' (Sanskrit चक्र तानम्) is one of the styles of [[tanam]] singing in [[Carnatic Music|Carnatic Classical Music]] tradition. It owes its name to the circular or cyclic approach adopted by the performer.<br />
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Tanam singing itself is regarded as a dying art today with musicians not having the patience or the aptitude to take up such scholarly rigorous pursuits.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chennaionline.com/musicnew/CarnaticMusic/174th.asp |title=Tanam singing - A dying art |access-date=2006-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310210825/http://www.chennaionline.com/musicnew/CarnaticMusic/174th.asp |archive-date=2007-03-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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Subba Iyer of Chembai village (in [[Palakkad District]]), who lived in the early 19th Century and was a contemporary of the [[Trinity of Carnatic Music|Carnatic Music Trinity]] and Maharaja [[Swathi Thirunal]], was such a famed exponent of Chakra Tanam that he came to be popularly called Chakratanam Subba Iyer.<br />
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Chakra Tanam is an almost extinct style of Tanam singing, its last major exponent being [[Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar]], the great-grandson of Chakratanam Subbaiyer. Another exponent of the style was [[Shadkala Govinda Marar]], who was known as ''Chakra Tanam Govinda Maram'' because of his Tanam.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=F3cHAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Chakra+Tanam%22&dq=%22Chakra+Tanam%22|title=Studies in Indian Music and Allied Arts|volume=3|author=Līlā Ōñcēri|editor=Deepti Omchery Bhalla|editor-link=Deepti Omchery Bhalla|publisher=Sundeep Prakashan|year=1990|isbn=9788185067605|page=61|accessdate=18 November 2012}}</ref><br />
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