Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3: Kesarbai Kerkar.
• Kerkar was awarded the 1953 Sangeet Natak Academy Award, given by the Sangeet Natak Academy India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama, as the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists
• This was followed by the decoration of Padma Bhushan by the government of India in 1969. ? and in the same year, the government of the Indian state of Maharashtra conferred upon her the title of "Rajya Gayika." Indian Novel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore is said to have been very fond of Kerkar's singing.