Ghantasala

                                               (1942 – 1974) 

                    Hindi , Tamil , Telugu , Kannada , Malayalam



                Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao (1922–1974) was a Legendary & distinguished Indian Playback Singer and music musician of Telugu films and lots of different languages like Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He was the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award.

                For nearly quite 1 / 4 of a century, his was the distinguished voice of Telugu films. He herb in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi films. He composed exemplary music for quite one hundred movies in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. He composed & herb the Bhagavad religious writing simply before his death in 1974, a rendition that became extremely acclaimed and continues to be as common as ever. On eleven Feb 2003, a stamp was free in honor of Ghantasala at Telugu Lalita Kala Toranam, Public Gardens, Hyderabad.

             "Gifted with what V. A. K. Ranga Rao known as "the most majestic voice", Ghantasala helped Telugu film music develop its own distinct character that remains unparalleled".
             Article(s) in "The Hindu" dt. eleven February 2003 and "The Indian Express" dt. fourteen February 1974 sums up Ghantasala as: Such a Divine Talent, World Health Organization together with his songs, might move the hearts of the folks. "Ghantasala's mixing of classical improvisations to the art of sunshine music combined together with his science and sensitivity puts him a category apart, specifically others within the field of playback singing". Ghantasala was "no mere singer" however conjointly a "true poet" World Health Organization together with his melodious voice might comprehend and did provide expression to the deepest feelings of affection, pity, joy, suffering, piety, happiness and bitterness in a very manner nobody else might, or did. One cannot facilitate feeling that it might are hardly potential for him to sing on all those varied themes with such intensity of fervor and likeness to reality, and preciseness in apprehension, had he not himself lived and full-fledged these basic emotions inside, in as nice a fashion as any of the good poets ever had. The "Melody King" legendary Ghantasala continues to carry sway over various music lovers, crossing generation barriers, with the melodic voice communication of his golden voice.

Life

             Ghantasala was born to Soorayya, United Nations agency was a neighborhood singer, in an exceedingly ancientTelugu Brahmin family in 1922. throughout his childhood, Ghantasala accustomed dance to his father's Tarangams. He lost his father once he was a baby, and was mentioned by his maternal uncle Ryali Pitchi Ramaiah. He took formal music coaching from Patrayani Sitarama Sastry, conjointly referred to as Saluru China Guruvu Garu, and he joined Maharajah's Government faculty of Music and Dance in Vijayanagram while not informing his family. He went through variety of hardships to be told music and went on to become a "Sangeeta Vidhwan".

               Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was married to Late Sarala Devi. and Savithri. Ghantasala had eight youngsters, four sons (Vijaya Kumar, Ravi Kumar, sitar player Kumar and Ratna Kumar) and 4 daughters (Syamala, Suguna, Meera and Shanti).

Private Albums 

Pushpa Vilapam 

Patriotic Songs

Bhagawad Gita

Folk Songs

Devotional Songs

Awards 

Ghantasala was honoured with the "Padmashri" by the Government of India. 
He won the best playback singer award in AP State every year for nearly 3 decades of his entire career as playback singer. 
Various Awards after his name are given every year to various musical artists viz., "Ghantasala melody king award" - Popular artists who are recipients of this award include K J Yesudas, Playback singer; P Suseela, playback singer, Indian Idol Sri Ramachandra etc. 
Ghantasala Arts Academy has instituted the "Ghantasala National Award" and the first award was given to S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, playback singer. 
The Government music college in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh is named after Ghantasala.
"Ghantasala Sangeetha Kalasala" college in Hyderabad and Vizag offers six-month and one-year diploma courses on Ghantasala light music, songs and music. 

Ghantasala is the first movie singer-composer of the South in whose memory a stamp and first day cover was released in the year 2003 by the Govt. of India. 
After the saint poet Annamacharya in the 15th Century, Ghantasala has been the only singer who rendered devotional songs inside the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple near the Lord - Moola Virat.