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Telugu musician, composer, and a Hindu saint
- Tallapaka Annamacharya (Telugu: తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య, romanized: tāḷḷapāka annamācārya) (22 May 1408 – 4 April 1503), also popularly known as Annamayya, was a Telugu musician, composer, and a Hindu saint. He is the earliest known Indian musician to compose songs called samkirtanas.
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Tallapaka Annamacharya (Telugu: తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య, romanized: tāḷḷapāka annamācārya) (22 May 1408 – 4 April 1503), also popularly known as Annamayya, was a Telugu musician, composer, and a Hindu saint. He is the earliest known Indian musician to compose songs called samkirtanas.
Thallapaka Annamayya, populary known as Annamacharya was a popular saint-composer of Andhra Pradesh and is revered as ' pada kavitA pitAmaha ' (Grandsire of word-poetry) and as 'sankIrtanAchArya' (AchArya of devotional songs). Annamyya dedicated his life for composing and singing the glories of Lord Venkateswara of Tirupati.
Annamayya was born with the blessings of Lord Venkateswara; it would be natural for the parents to constantly talk of the Lord and His inimitable divinity. When Annamayya was just five years old, his father Narayana Suri performed his Upanayanam or thread ceremony, and got him ready for real education. Annamayya did not have any problems with that.
Sep 15, 2022 · Annamacharya was one of the first poets in Telugu literature who opposed social stigma toward the untouchable castes through his compositions. These sentiments were echoed in his well-known song Brahmaṃ Okkate (The divine and absolute power is one).
May 21, 2015 · Popularly known all over undivided Andhra as “Annamayya”, Annamacharya is undoubtedly one of our leading lights not only in the realm of music, for which he is best known, but in the realm of Dharma.
Nov 18, 2017 · Annamacharya was the very first vaggeyakara (composer) to compose songs called “Sankirtanas” in praise of Lord Venkateswara, the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala, India where unbroken worship is being offered for over 12 centuries.
May 8, 2011 · Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya (Telugu: శ్రీ తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య) (May 9, 1408 – February 23, 1503) also known as Annamayya (or) Annamacharyulu is saint composer of carnatic music. Annamayya – Venkateswara’s bard Hailed as the ‘Pada Kavita Pitamaha’, for it was he who gave us the musical form ...
