Classical music

The major composers like saint Annamacharya

Annamacharya

Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya was the official songmaster of the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, and a Telugu composer who composed around 36000 keertana songs, many of which were in praise of Venkateswara, the presiding deity of the temple...

, Tyagaraja

Tyagaraja

Kakarla Tyagabrahmam , colloquially known as Tyāgarājar and Tyagayya was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic music or classical South Indian music. He, along with his contemporaries Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastry, forms the Trinity of Carnatic music...

, Badhrachala Ramadas were pioneers in the field of Carnatic music. In the area of instrumental music, giants such as Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu

Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu

Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu was one of the most important carnatic violinists of the 20th century.-Early life and background:...

 (violin), Emani Sankara Sastry

Emani sankara sastry

Emani Sankara Sastry , was a renowned Veena player of Carnatic music.-Life sketch:Sankara Sastry was born on September 23, 1922 in Draksharama, Andhra Pradesh. He came from a family of celebrated classical musicians...

 (veena

Veena

Veena may refer to one of several Indian plucked instruments:With frets*Rudra veena, plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music*Saraswati veena, plucked string instrument used in Carnatic musicFretless...

) and Chitti Babu

Chitti Babu

Chitti Babu is a Indian comedian, presenter and actor who prominently plays supporting roles in Tamil cinema. He was also one of the judges in the comedy show Asathapovathu Yaaru on Sun TV.Filmography=Television=* Hari Giri Assembly...

 (veena) are famous. Contemporary stalwarts of Vocal music include Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna is a Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and a playback singer. He is also acclaimed as a poet, composer and respected by all Indian classical musicians for his knowledge of Carnatic Music....

, Nedunuri Krishnamurthy

Nedunuri Krishnamurthy

Dr. Nedunuri Krishnamurthy is a famous Indian Carnatic vocalist. His tonal quality and "Continuity" are his special assets.-Early life:...

, Srirangam Gopalaratnam

Srirangam Gopalaratnam

Srirangam Gopalaratnam is a Telugu singer. She is distinguished in the exposition of Kuchipudi, Yakshagana, Javali and Yenki Patalu....

, Sripada Pinakapani

Sripada Pinakapani

Professor Sripada Pinakapaani shortly S. Pinakapani is a medical doctor, administrator, professor in medicine, and carnatic musician.-Early life:...

, Sarangapani

Sarangapani

Sarangapani was a composer of Carnatic music who lived during the 17th century in the village of Karvetinagaram in Andhra Pradesh. He is famous for his composition of Padams, a type of Carnatic song sung during Bharatanatyam performances. Sarangapani was the Minister of Education in the court of...

 and Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana

Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana

Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana is a Carnatic musician, a classical vocalist, musicologist, author and teacher, a great administrator and motivator. He is a performer on All India Radio and Doordarshan who has participated in Sangeeta Sammelans, outdoor broadcasts and national...

. Yella Venkatesara Rao (mridangam) and U. Srinivas

U. Srinivas

Uppalapu Shrinivas , is an Indian mandolin player of the Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India. Shrinivas plays an electric mandolin and has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook...

 (mandolin

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

) have also garnered recognition.

Film music

Susarla Dakshinamurthi

Susarla Dakshinamurthi

Susarla Dakshinamurthi is a playback singer and music director from South India. He has worked for about 135 films in different South Indian languages...

 and Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna is a Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and a playback singer. He is also acclaimed as a poet, composer and respected by all Indian classical musicians for his knowledge of Carnatic Music....

 are considered to be one of the influential music composers of south Indian cinema to receive international recognition Music composers such as Pendyala Nageswara Rao

Pendyala Nageswara Rao

Pendyala Nageswara Rao was a popular drama actor, singer and music director in Telugu Film Industry for over 25 years from early 1950s to late 1970s. He has composed music for many successful Telugu movies during that period.-Early life:He was born at Vanukuru near Vijayawada and later shifted to...

, R. Sudarshanam and R. Goverdhanam duo made contribution to folklore films.

Pithapuram Nageswara Rao

Pithapuram Nageswara Rao

Pithapuram Nageswara Rao is a popular Playback singer during the early period of Telugu cinema. He sang thousands of songs mostly of comedy nature in 1950s and 1960s along with Madhavapeddi Satyam and others.-Brief lifesketch:...

, Madhavapeddi Satyam

Madhavapeddi Satyam

Madhavapeddi Satyam was a renowned Telugu singer and stage-actor from the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He entered into films as a singer-actor in Y.V. Rao's Tamil-Hindi Biligual movie Ramadas in the year 1946. He played the role of Kabir. However, he became more popular as a playback singer...

, P. Adinarayana Rao

P. Adinarayana Rao

Penupatruni Adinarayana Rao , also known as P. Adinarayana Rao was a reputed Telugu music director, film producer, lyricist and play writer from south Indian film industry....

, Gali Penchala Narasimha Rao

Gali Penchala Narasimha Rao

Gali Penchala Narasimha Rao was the first generation of Music directors in Indian cinema. He is also known as Gali Penchalaiah.He has debuted with the Telugu version of Seetha Kalyanam in 1934....

, Chellapilla Satyam

Chellapilla Satyam

Chellapilla Satyanarayana Sastry, better known as Chellapilla Satyam is an eminent Indian music director. He was popular in the Telugu and Kannada cinema fields in 1960s and 1980s. Sathyam is best remembered as "Andhra RD Burman".He was born in Komarada village in Vizianagaram district, Andhra...

, P. B. Sreenivas, S. P. Kodandapani

S. P. Kodandapani

Sripati Panditharadhyula Kodandapani, better known as S. P. Kodandapani is famous Music director and Playback singer in Telugu cinema. In Pandanti Kapuram film, he voiced the memorable song "Idigo Devudu Chesina Bomma" on the Hindu philosophy of Human life.He has introduced the famous playback...

, G. K. Venkatesh, S. Hanumantha Rao

S. Hanumantha Rao

Saluri Hanumantha Rao was a Music composer of South Indian films. He is son of Sri.Saluri Sanyasi Raju who was a mridangam player for the concerts of Sri. Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu and also a lyricist. Rao was born in 1917 at Sivaramapuram, near Salur . He is elder brother of Saluri Rajeswara Rao...

, etc were pioneers of Telugu film music and play back singing.

Ghantasala

Ghantasala

Ghantasala can refer to:People* Ghantasala , or Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, Telugu singer and composer* Ghantasala Balaramayya, Telugu film producer and directorPlaces* Ghantasala , a town in Andhra Pradesh in India...

, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam is a multilingual Indian playback singer, actor, music director, voice actor and a film producer. He is referred to as S. P. B. or Balu by the media. He has won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer six times closely following K. J. Yesudas...

, P. Susheela

P. Susheela

Pulapaka Susheela is an Indian playback singer. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has recorded songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tulu, Badaga and Sinhalese.-Personal life:She is the daughter of Pulapaka...

, S. Janaki

S. Janaki

S. Janaki is an Indian female playback singer. Renowned for her voice modulation abilities, she has sung in many Indian languages, most frequently in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, she has won four National Film Awards and 35...

, M. M. Keeravani, etc are some of the known music artists from Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

 to receive National recognition. Other prominent Telugu film score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 and soundtrack composers of the present include Chakravarthi

Chakravarthi

Chakravarthi born as Kommineni Apparao, was an Indian music director in the South Indian film industry. He scored music for 960 movies, In 1989 a total 95 films were released in Telugu cinema, in that, the music for 66 films was composed by Chakravarthi....

, Mani Sharma

Mani Sharma

Mani Sharma Yanamandra is a music director known for his works in Tollywood. He has composed music for over 140 films. He is popularly known as "Swara Brahma" for his contributions to music in Tollywood. Mani Sharma started his career as a music director in 1998. Before that Sharma used to work...

, Devi Sri Prasad

Devi Sri Prasad

Devi Sri Prasad is a music composer and playback singer in Telugu and Tamil films. His soundtracks have been dubbed or remade in several other languages as well.- Awards :...

, Mickey J Meyer

Mickey J Meyer

Mickey J Meyer is an Indian music composer and singer. He is a soundtrack composer in contemporary Telugu Cinema and is based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India....

, Ramana Gogula

Ramana Gogula

Ramana Kumar Gogula is a music director in Telugu films. He formed his own rock-and-roll band in Vizag at the age of 17. Since then, he has traveled around the world as a software professional and music director. His most famous albums are the musical scores to the movies Thammudu,adavilo anna,...

, R. P. Patnaik

R. P. Patnaik

R. P. Patnaik[Telugu] is a music director and playback singer in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. He has written music for Jayam, Santosham, and Nijam...

, Chakri (music director)

Chakri (music director)

Chakradhar is an Indian music composer and singer. He works for Tollywood.-Early life:Chakri was born in Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. He has one brother and three sisters.-Career:...

, Kalyani Malik

Kalyani Malik

Kalyani Malik is a Tollywood music director. He is also the brother of M.M. Keeravani. Since achieving recognition through Chandra Sekhar Yeleti's film Aithe, Kalyani has provided musical scores for many other small films...

, S. V. Krishna Reddy

S. V. Krishna Reddy

S.V. Krishna Reddy is an Indian film director. He has been a successful and an influential director since a decade. His contribution to the Telugu Film Industry is a landmark; to his credits he adds 38 films till date which were not only hits at box office, but also his name was carved in the...

, Vandemataram Srinivas

Vandemataram Srinivas

Vandemataram Srinivas is a South Indian Music Director, Who is also a playback singer and an Actor and film director-Awards:* Filmfare Best Male Playback Award - Aaha...

  and Sri Kommineni

Sri Kommineni

Sri Kommineni born as Kommineni Srinivasa Chakravarthi is an Indian Film composer and playback singer in Telugu cinema. He is the son of veteran Music composer Chakravarthi . He did his BE in industrial engineering from Manipal University....

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