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A multi-faceted personality, he enriched music not only with his voice but also by composing over 400 songs in various languages like Telugu, Sanskrit, Kannada and Tamil besides playing various instruments.
This included devotional to varnams, krithis, javalis and thillanas in all the fundamental 72 melakartha ragas.
He was a towering figure in Carnatic music world and was loved equally by the the masses and connoisseurs.
His songs like ‘Oru Naal Pothuma’ in Sivaji Ganesan- starrer “Thiruvilayadal”, ‘Chinna Kannan Azhaikiran’ in “Kavikuil” and ‘Thanga Ratham Vanthathu’ in “Kalai Koil” were great hits and are popular even today.
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