Garimella Balakrishna Prasad
Carnatic music, Musical Artist
1948 –
Who is Garimella Balakrishna Prasad?
Garimella Balakrishna Prasad is an Indian classical devotional singer and composer. He served Tirumala Tirupati Devastanam's Annamacharya Project as Special Grade Vocal Artiste from 1978 to 2006.
He is regarded as a pioneer in rendering devotional music in classical style, especially the Annamacharya sankirtanas. He composed tunes for the lyrics of nearly a thousand songs composed by various poets. Of these nearly six hundred of them were Annamacharya sankirtanas, and this is a "RECORD" . To mention a few most popular sankirtanas set to tune by Sri Prasad are Vinaro Bhagyamu Vishnukatha, Jagadapu Chanavula, Vochenu alamelumanga, Tiruveedhula merasi, Choodaramma Satulaala, Jaya lakshmi vara lakshmi, Aadimoolame maaku angaraksha, Aatade brahmanya daivam, Antayu neeve, Yemani pogadudume and Pidikita Thalambralu....
He composed and sang in different styles such as Carnatic classical, light classical, folk and light music.
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