sentences:  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.Subba Iyer of Chembai village (in Palakkad District), who lived in the early 19th Century and was a contemporary of the 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.Chakra Tanam is an almost extinct style of Tanam singing, its last major exponent being Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, the great-grandson of Chakratanam Subbaiyer.