​Who among the following became the first Indian musician to be honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay award, which is considered to be Asia's Nobel Prize?​

Correct option is B

• Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
• She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
• She was later followed by the Bharat Ratna award to Pandit Ravi Shankar in 1999, Ustad Bismillah Khan and Sushri Lata Mangeshkar in 2001, and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi in 2009​.
• She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often considered Asia's Nobel Prize, in 1974 with the citation reading "Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the Carnatic tradition of South India.
• She was the First Indian who performed in the United Nations General Assembly in 1966.

Incorrect options explanation:

• Lata Mangeshkar was born in Indore on September 28, 1929, and became, quite simply, the most popular playback singer in Bollywood's history. She sung for over 50 years for actresses from Nargis to Preity G Zinta, as well as recorded albums of all kinds (ghazals, pop, etc).
• Ravi Shankar was born in Varanasi, India on April 7, 1920 and spent his youth performing across Europe and India as a member of his brother Uday's dance troupe. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study the sitar under the legendary court musician Ustad Allauddin Khan.
• Pandit Kumar Gandharva originally known as Shivaputra Siddharamayya Komkalimath was an Indian classical singer, well known for his unique vocal style and for his refusal to be bound by the tradition of any gharana.