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Vidyabhushana is a vocalist from Karnataka.He sings devotional songs, chiefly Haridasa compositions, [1] and carnatic classical music.He has many albums to his credit, mainly devotional songs in Kannada, Tulu and has given concerts all over the world. [2]
Purandara Dasa was a wealthy merchant of gold, silver and other miscellaneous jewellery from Karnataka, who gave away all his material riches to become a Haridasa (literally meaning a servant of Vishnu or Krishna), a devotional singer who made the difficult Sanskrit tenets of Bhagavata Purana available to everyone in simple and melodious songs ...
Chandrika Gururaj (born 4 October 1959), is an Indian playback singer, known for her works in Kannada. [1] [2] Apart from film songs, she has also recorded numerous devotional, bhaavageethe and folk songs. [3] [4] For her song "O Priyatama" in the movie Urvashi, Chandrika won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 1994.
Swami Purushottamananda was born on 14 June 1931 at Moodahadu, a village near Saligrama in the undivided district of Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka as Ramachandra Bayari. He completed matriculation and served as a teacher in Malpe and Madikeri .
Puttur Narasimha Nayak is a Kannada and Konkani singer and vocalist from Karnataka.. He sings devotional songs, chiefly Haridasa compositions, and Carnatic classical music.To his credit, he has rendered in Kannada, mainly devotional songs and kirthanas by Purandara Dasa, Kanaka Dasa and has given many public concerts all over the world.
He was a prolific composer and highly influential in the development of the South Indian classical music tradition. Tyagaraja is said to have composed thousands of devotional compositions, most of them in praise of Lord Rama; some of which remain very popular even today.
He has also recorded songs for many non-film albums, teliseries, devotionals and classical. Shankar shot to fame through his 1998 released private album Breathless. [1] In Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films, he initially rose to fame through A. R. Rahman compositions and eventually recorded many hundreds of songs for composers.
This devotional movement, although reminiscent in some ways of the Veerashaiva movement of the 12th century (which produced Vachana poetry and taught devotion to the god Shiva), was in contrast intimately devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu as the supreme God. [102]