Getting news of singer @shobha_raju being made the Asthana Vidwan of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam. For the past three decades she has been tirelessly working to propegate the compositions of poet composer Tallapaka Annamacharya.
Well-deserved!
The TTD, time and again honours artistes with the title of 'Asthana Vidwan' for their services towards spreading awareness about the music of Tallapaka Annamacharya. In the past they have given the same title to Sri Rallapalli Ananthakrishna Sarma, Veturi Prabhakara Sastry,
Dr Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna, M S Subbulakshmi, Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Garimella Balakrishna Prasad and many others. Most of these were classical musicians. @shobha_raju is the first non-classical musician in a long time. She trained under numerous Gurus.
She hails from a Ratnakaram Raju family in Chittooru. She became extremely popular on television and radio with her numerous programs based on the music of Annamayya. Her own sister Dr Sumita Guha is a Hindustani classical vocalist.
Every year on Annamacharya Jayanthi, @shobha_raju does a Nagara Sankeerthana from the Venkateswara temple in Chikkadpally to the statue of Annamayya on the Tank Bund. She has established an Annamayapuram in Hyderabad too. Training a number of students in the songs of Annamayya.
For her services to music, @shobha_raju was honoured with the Padma Shri award by President of India Pratibha Patil.
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