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{{Infobox musical artist | {{Infobox musical artist | ||
| name = P. Kalinga Rao | | name = P. Kalinga Rao | ||
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| birth_name = Pandeshwara Kalinga Rao | | birth_name = Pandeshwara Kalinga Rao | ||
| birth_place =Aroor ,Udupi | | birth_place = Aroor, Udupi | ||
| birth_date = 1914 | | birth_date = 1914 | ||
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1981|9|21|1914}} | | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1981|9|21|1914}} | ||
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'''Pandeshwara Kalinga Rao''' | '''Pandeshwara Kalinga Rao''' (1914 – 21 September 1981) was an Indian [[Bhavageete]] and [[Sugama Sangeetha]] singer and composer in the [[Kannada language]].<ref>{{cite web | ||
| title = Nightingale of Karnataka | | title = Nightingale of Karnataka | ||
| url = http://www.ourkarnataka.com/Articles/starofmysore/hsk/kalingarao.htm | | url = http://www.ourkarnataka.com/Articles/starofmysore/hsk/kalingarao.htm | ||
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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Kalinga Rao was married to Meenakshamma.<ref name="thehindulife">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kalinga-rao-100-and-evergreen/article6380329.ece | last= Khajane |first= Muralidhara |title=The life and times of Kalinga Rao |work=The Hindu|date= 6 September 2014|accessdate=16 October 2014 |location=India}}</ref> | Kalinga Rao was married to Meenakshamma (d. 2015).<ref name="thehindulife">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kalinga-rao-100-and-evergreen/article6380329.ece | last= Khajane |first= Muralidhara |title=The life and times of Kalinga Rao |work=The Hindu|date= 6 September 2014|accessdate=16 October 2014 |location=India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pereira |first1=Violet |title=Udupi: Meenakshamma Kalinga Rao (92), Wife of Renowned Singer, No More |url=https://www.mangalorean.com/udupi-meenakshamma-kalinga-rao-92-wife-of-renowned-singer-no-more |website=Mangalorean.com |access-date=3 December 2021 |date=27 January 2015}}</ref> The had four children together: Prema, Vasanth, Sharath and Santosh. Rao was a primary school drop-out. But his knowledge of six languages was near scholarly. | ||
==Pioneer of light music== | ==Pioneer of light music== | ||
He popularised the Kannada [[Bhavageete]], a form of music that derives lyrics from popular poetry and devotional works. | He popularised the Kannada [[Bhavageete]], a form of music that derives lyrics from popular poetry and devotional works. | ||
Rao is widely regarded as the pioneer of the Kannada sugama sangeeta genre. He was active for three decades from 1950 and thankfully almost all of his tunes were recorded either by the gramophone companies or All India Radio. Kalinga Rao began his musical life in the era of the 78 rpm gramophone record, and the three-minute discs took his music to audiences all over Karnataka. He was also a rage on radio, and started a musical counter culture that could take on expensively produced film songs. | |||
Poets Kuvempu, Bendre, and K S Narasimha Swamy were writing inspired lyrics that would soon turn into classics, and Kalinga Rao was instrumental in composing tunes for them. He also sang Purandaradasa and folk songs, emerging as a complete practitioner of Kannada music. Kalinga Rao used the medium of music more as a promoter of poems of great Kannada poets such as [[Kuvempu]], [[D. R. Bendre]] and [[Gopalakrishna Adiga]] than as a performer unlike professional musicians. It was not the music, but the words of these poets which sought importance in his compositions.<ref name="thehindulife"/> | Poets Kuvempu, Bendre, and K S Narasimha Swamy were writing inspired lyrics that would soon turn into classics, and Kalinga Rao was instrumental in composing tunes for them. He also sang Purandaradasa and folk songs, emerging as a complete practitioner of Kannada music. Kalinga Rao used the medium of music more as a promoter of poems of great Kannada poets such as [[Kuvempu]], [[D. R. Bendre]] and [[Gopalakrishna Adiga]] than as a performer unlike professional musicians. It was not the music, but the words of these poets which sought importance in his compositions.<ref name="thehindulife"/> | ||
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[[Category:Film musicians from Karnataka]] | [[Category:Film musicians from Karnataka]] | ||
[[Category:Kannada playback singers]] | [[Category:Kannada playback singers]] | ||
[[Category:Indian male | [[Category:Indian male playback singers]] | ||
[[Category:Male film score composers]] | [[Category:Male film score composers]] | ||
[[Category:20th-century male singers]] | [[Category:20th-century Indian male singers]] | ||