Sri Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, a Carnatic music exponent and the asthana vidwan of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has set tune to more than six hundred songs written by Annamacharya, gave audio recordings for TTD, published books with musical notations and conducted classes, teaching the songs to make them more popular. She has been awarded Padmashri by Government of India, in 2010 in recognition of her efforts to promote Annamayya Compositions. She is the founder of Annamacharya Bhavana Vahini (ABV) in 1983, which is located in Hyderabad, India. Her first audio album, " Vēnkatēśvara Gīta Mālika" is globally popular among Telugu community. Shobha Raju is the first recipient of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams scholarship in 1976 to study and set a trend for the propagation of Annamacharya's compositions, and was also chosen as the first exclusive artiste for the propagation of Tallapaka's compositions in 1978. This became a hit and took the compositions of Annamacharya to every nook and corner of the country. Subbulakshmi's album Balaji Pancharatna Mala came up with Annamacharya keerthanas like Vande Vasudevam, Bhavamulona, Sriman Narayana and many more. He was also an acclaimed poet, singer, and a musicologist. He is regarded as a legend in rendering devotional music in classical style, especially the Annamacharya Sankirtanas. He was the Āsthāna Gāyaka of the Tirumala temple at Tirupati for two decades. He set music to over 800 compositions of Annamacharya and are still popular among the devotees. In the year 1950, The State Government of Andhra Pradesh created a committee and appointed the legendary musician late Dr. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, also known as TTD, has been endeavoring to preserve the rich heritage of his compositions.
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An English translation of 150 of these verses was published in 2005. Mentioned in 1849, they were later found engraved on copper plates, hidden for centuries inside the Sri Venkateswara temple at Tirumala, just opposite the Hundi, concealed in a very small room. While he enjoyed popularity in his days, his compositions were forgotten for over three centuries. His prodigious literary career earned him a place among the all-time greats of Telugu literature.
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He was one of the first few who opposed the social stigma towards the untouchable castes in his era, with his sankeertanas explaining that the relationship between God and human is the same irrespective of the latter's color, caste and financial status, in his songs " Brahmaṃ Okkatē Paraḥbrahmamokkatē" and " ē kulajuḍainanēmi evvaḍainanēmi". In his later keertanas, he espouses subjects such as morality, dharma and righteousness. His songs in the "Sringaara" genre worship Venkateswara by describing the romantic adventures of Venkateshwara and his consort Alamelu, while others describe the Bhakti of his devotees. His songs are classified into the Adhyaatma (spiritual) and Sringaara (romantic) sankeertanas genres. In the poems, he praises the deity, describes his love for him, argues and quarrels with the Lord, confesses the devotee's failures and apprehensions, and surrenders himself to Venkateshwara. Īnnamayya considered his compositions as floral offerings to Venkateswara. He is also the author of musical treatise called "Sankirthana lakshanamu".
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Annamacharya lived for 95 years until Phalguna Bahula (Krishna) Dvadasi (12th day after full moon) in the year Dhundhubhi (4 April 1503).ġ0-story tall statue of Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya located at the entrance of Tallapaka.Īnnamayya is said to have composed as many as 32,000 sankeertanas (songs) on the praise of lord Venkateswara of which only about 12,000 are available today. The Tallapaka compositions are considered to have dominated and influenced the structure of Carnatic music compositions.
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Their son, Pedda Tirumalacharya, and grandson, Tallapaka Chinnayya, were also composers and poets. His wife, Timmakka, had written Subhadra Kalyanam, and is considered the first female poet in Telugu literature.
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Even though his parents belonged to the Nandavarika Brahmin community of Smarta tradition, he took initiation into Vaishnavism and became a Vaishnava in the Ramanujacharya Sampradaya. Tallapaka Annamacharya was born on Vaishakha Shuddha Pournami in the year Sarwadhari () in Tallapaka, Near Rajampet Mandal, a village in present-day Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, India.