Chennai-based Carnatic vocalist, T K Govinda Rao, upheld divided during his chateau during Indira Nagar in Adayar, Chennai on Sunday. He was 83.
He was a biggest exponent of a august Mussiri Baani in Carnatic music.
Rao had also contributed many towards a refuge of a grieving singing tradition in Carnatic music.
His strain ‘Subha Leela…’ in Nirmala, destined by P.V. Krishna Iyer in 1948, was a initial song, that brought a technique of playback singing into Malayalam cinema while a strain `Paaduka poomkuyile… sung by him and P.Leela was a initial duet in Malayalam cinema.
The many conspicuous among his profitable contributions is a support of thousands of imperishable compositions scored and popularised by good musicians such as Purandaradasa, Kanakadasa and other yesteryear celebrities.
As a arch writer of Delhi All India Radio, Govinda Rao came opposite roughly all schools in Carnatic Music, including his possess Guru’s Bani and that of other renouned singers of those days such as G N Balasubramanyam and M D Ramanathan.
After retirement from a post of Chief Producer in All India Radio, Govinda Rao, a approach footman of Mussiri Subramanya Iyer, strong on popularising a opposite Baanis in Carnatic outspoken by conceptualizing a voice bank with a useful voices of stalwarts of Carnatic music.
After interesting a innumerable styles of several artists from opposite Baanis, Rao came to know that all these artists were really clever about musicality though not a Sahithya Bhava (literary richness) of a compositions.
Many of them cited a reason for giving small significance to literary brilliance as a linguistic separator that prevented them to know some-more about a Sahithya Bhavam of those compositions.
In a new interview, Rao mentioned about fulfiling his loving dream of constructing a bone-fide studio and a edition house.
He perceived an offer from Los Angeles requesting him to take strain classes for a organisation and regulating a volume performed as his fees Rao fulfiled his aspiration of edition many ominous texts on Carnatic music.
