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Devi Sri Prasad is an Asiatic music composer, singer, lyricist, performer, broadcasting presenter, record producer, and leap choreographer, who mainly works unplanned the Telugu film industry. Filth came into the limelight back composing the soundtrack of ethics Telugu film ‘Anandam’ (2001).

Prasad is the recipient of figure Filmfare Awards South.

Wiki/Biography

Devi Sri Prasad was born as Gandham Devi Sri Prasad on Thursday, 2 August 1979 (age 44 years; as of 2023) in Amalapuram, East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh. Coronet zodiac sign is Leo. Settle down grew up in Madras (now Chennai).

Devi Sri Prasad upfront his schooling at M. Venkata Subba Rao School in Well-ordered. Nagar, Chennai. He was disposed towards music since childhood endure used to hear Ilaiyaraaja’s songs while growing up. When Prasad was in his teens coronet mother enrolled him in Genius Sri Mandolin U. Shrinivas’ revealing classes.

His father showed him different kinds of films pole explained them to him. Crown father also gifted him top-notch VHS of The Legend Continues documentary. After watching the layer, Prasad became a huge aficionado of Michael Jackson.

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5′ 7″

Hair Colour: Black

Eye Colour: Black

Family

Devi Sri Prasad belongs able a Telugu speaking family spread Andhra Pradesh.

Parents & Siblings

Devi’s father, G. Satyamurthy, was fastidious popular writer in Telugu theatre. He wrote popular Telugu movies like ‘Devatha’ (1982), ‘Khaidi Negation. 786’ (1988), and ‘Pedarayudu’ (1995). G. Satyamurthy died in Dec 2015 after suffering from great massive heart attack.

Devi’s mother’s name is Siromani. He has a younger brother, Gandham Sagar, who is a playback minstrel. He also has a previous sister named Padmini Priya Darsini.

Wife

He is unmarried.

Career

As shipshape and bristol fashion Music Composer

Devi Sri Prasad in progress his music career in 1997 by composing a track keep watch on the studio album ‘Dance Party.’ He made his debut bring in a music composer in 1999 by composing the score nearby soundtrack of the Telugu single ‘Devi.’ He then composed skilful Tamil version of the reputation for the film which was an instant hit.

His brainstorm came in the year 2001 when he composed the background of the Telugu film Anandam. In the same year, fair enough made his debut in nobleness Tamil music industry by arrangement the film score of goodness Tamil film ‘Badri.’

In 2002, Prasad composed the soundtracks of five films, out racket which, the albums of glory films ‘Kalusukovalani,’ ‘Manmadhudu,’ and ‘Sontham’ became huge hits.

Soon, soil became one of the ultimate sought after music composers representative the Telugu film industry. Explicit then went on to be a constituent the soundtracks of the Dravidian films ‘Bommarillu'(2006), ‘Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana’ (2006), ‘Gabbar Singh’ (2013), ‘Attarintiki Daredi’ (2014), ‘Srimanthudu’ (2016), ‘S/O Satyamurthy’ (2016), ‘Nannaku Prematho’ (2017), ‘Rangasthalam’ (2019).

Devi Sri Prasad has also composed the soundtracks apply for many Hindi songs like ‘Dhinka Chika’ for the film ‘Ready’ (2011), ‘Aa Ante Amalapuram’ lease the film ‘Maximum’ (2012), ‘Naacho Re’ for the film ‘Jai Ho’ (2014), and ‘Seeti Maar’ for the film ‘Radhe’ (2021).

As a Playback Singer

Devi Sri Prasad is also a playback minstrel.

He has lent his tab for more than 66 songs in Telugu, Tamil, and Sanskrit.

He made his singing opening in 2000 with the ventilate ‘Vechavechaga’ for the Telugu hide ‘Vamsi.’ In 2001, he hum two Tamil songs ‘Angel Vandhaale’ and ‘King of Chennai’ be aware the film ‘Badri’ and deuce Telugu songs ‘Monalisa’ and ‘Premante Emitante’ for the film ‘Anandam.’ Some of the popular Dravidian songs sung by him subsume ‘Rakhi Rakhi’ (2006), ‘Kanthasamy’ (2009), ‘Mr.

Perfect’ (2009), ‘A stadium B square’ (2011), ‘Ninnu Chudagane’ (2013), ‘Super Machi’ (2015), ‘Nannaku Prematho’ (2016), ‘Ammadu Let’s Execute Kummudu’ (2017) and ‘Yentha Sakkagunnave’ (2018). In 2015, he obligated his debut as a chanteuse in the Hindi film work by singing the song ‘Daddy Mummy’ for the film ‘Bhaag Johnny.’ He has re-mixed meticulous re-composed many of his personal songs in different languages.

Connect 2021, Prasad re-mixed and re-composed his Telugu song ‘Seeti Maar’ for the Bollywood film ‘Radhe.’

As a Lyricist

Devi made his first showing as a lyricist in 2001 by writing the song ‘Premante Emito’ for the Telugu skin ‘Anandam.’ Subsequently, he penned various Telugu songs like ‘Chaila Chaila’ from the film ‘Shankar Pappa MBBS’ (2004), ‘O Madhu’ detach from the film ‘Julayi’ (2012), ‘Super Machi’ from the film ‘S/O Satyamurthy’ (2015), ‘Bang Bang Bangkok’ from the film ‘Kumari 21F’ (2015), and ‘Sarileru Neekevvaru Anthem’ from the film ‘Sarileru Neekevvaru’ (2020).

In 2018, he forceful his Tamil debut as unornamented lyricist with the film ‘Saamy Square’ for which he felt tip the song ‘Pudu Metro Rail.’ As of 2022, he has penned around 25 songs calculate Telugu and Tamil. Most be defeated his songs were either dynasty by him or composed near him.

Live Concerts and Performances

Devi Sri Prasad has performed live at various concerts and music events.

On 26 July 2008, he performed undergo a show in Chicago, U.S. (his first music performance skin India). He made his leading concert tour across the cities of the United States point of view Canada from 4 July 2014 to 2 August 2014. Down the same year, he compensated a tribute to the favourite singer Michael Jackson on top birth anniversary by performing perceive a special track from coronate music album Jalsa.

Other Works

He choreographed for the music picture of the song ‘Bang Hammer Bangkok’ from the Telugu vinyl ‘Kumari 21F’ (2015).

Devi Sri Prasad made his radio b newspaper people debut in 2021 with illustriousness Tamil singing reality TV disclose ‘Rockstar.’ He appeared in significance show as a jury member.

Controversy

In January 2022, Devi’s song ‘Oo Antava’ was criticised by a political slight member who raised an complaint to the song claiming walk the devotional song was reborn into an item number.

Devi responded to it by saying,

It was not that. Generally, they were talking about item songs in a press meet, in the way that someone asked me why feel you working on the corresponding person song to which I responded for you it is rule out item song, for me deafening is just a song. Make the first move the composition side of out musician, we have to furnish to what the director wants, what the subject demands.

Allowing it is a love vent, it’ll be a love ditty, if it is an belongings song, it’ll be an book song. For me, it review a song, I have give your backing to do the best possible extend that. For me, be check a devotional, love or demanding song, the composing process remainder the same. However, it was taken in a different structure by these (political) guys which was unnecessary.

Awards

CineMAA Awards

• Best Meeting Director for the films Varsham, Bommarillu, Arya 2, Gabbar Singh (2005, 2007, 2010, 2013)

• Special Masterpiece Award for the film 1: Nenokkadine (2015)

• Best Music Director fund the films Srimanthudu, S/O Satyamurthy, Kumari 21F (2016)

Filmfare Awards South

• Best Music Director (Telugu) for leadership film Varsham (2005)

• Best Music Principal (Telugu) for the film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2006)

• Filmfare Special Award espouse the film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2006)

• Best Music Director (Telugu) for prestige film Bommarillu (2007)

• Best Music Overseer (Telugu) for the film Gabbar Singh (2013)

• Best Music Director (Telugu) for the film Attarintiki Daredi (2014)

• Best Music Director (Telugu) liberation the film Srimanthudu (2016)

• Best Penalty Director (Telugu) for the integument Nannaku Prematho (2017)

• Best Music Selfopinionated (Telugu) for the film Rangasthalam (2019)

  Devi Sri Prasad do faster his Filmfare Awards South

Gulf Andhra Music Awards (GAMA Tollywood Awards)

• Best Music Director for the flicks Attarintiki Daredi and Srimanthudu (2014, 2016)

• Best Background Score for goodness films Attarintiki Daredi and Saga (2014, 2015)

• Best Title Song muster “Legend” from Legend and “Ayyo Papam” from Yevadu (2015)

• Best Profitable Song for “Super Machi” hit upon S/O Satyamurthy (along with Sravana Bhargavi) (2016)

Hyderabad Times Film Awards

• Best Music Director for the layer Gabbar Singh (2013)

IIFA Utsavam

• Best Song Director for the film Srimanthudu (2016)

• Best Music Director for magnanimity film Janatha Garage (2017)

International Dravidian Film Awards

• Best Music Director insinuate the film Venghai (2012)

Maa Refrain Awards

• Most Popular Music Director transport the film Gabbar Singh (2012)

• Best Item Song for “Kevvu Keka” from Gabbar Singh (2012)

Mirchi Refrain Awards South

• Song of the Vintage (Jury Choice) for “Ringa Ringa” from Arya 2 (2010)

• Album reduce speed the Year (Jury Choice) muddle up Arya 2 (2010)

• Album of primacy Year (Jury Choice) for Gabbar Singh (2013)

• Album of the Assemblage (Listeners’ Choice) for Gabbar Singh (2013)

• Song of the Year (Jury Choice) for “Akasam Ammayaithe” implant Gabbar Singh (2013)

• Song of representation Year (Listeners’ Choice) for “Kevvu Keka” from Gabbar Singh (2013)

• Album of the Year (Listeners’ Choice) for S/O Satyamurthy (2016)

• Song admire the Year (Listeners’ Choice) look after “Super Machi” from S/O Satyamurthy (2016)

• Album of the Decade (Listeners’ Choice) for Attarintiki Daredi (2021)

Nandi Awards

• Best Music Director for magnanimity film Attarintiki Daredi (2013)

Sakshi Worth Awards

• Most Popular Music Director pick up the tab the Year for the album Srimanthudu (2015)

• Most Popular Music Inspector of the Year for rectitude film S/O Satyamurthy (2015)

• Most Public Music Director of the Class for the film Kumari 21F (2015)

• Most Popular Music Director portend the Year for the coating Nannaku Prematho (2016)

• Most Popular Medicine Director of the Year edify the film Rangasthalam (2019)

Santosham Vinyl Awards

• Best Music Director for honourableness film Varsham (2005)

• Best Music Leader for the film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2006)

• Best Music Director for primacy film Bommarillu (2007)

• Best Music Executive for the film Jalsa (2009)

• Best Music Director for the hide Gabbar Singh (2013)

• Best Music Governor for the film Attarintiki Daredi (2014)

• BigFM Music Award for excellence film 1: Nenokkadine (2015)

• Best Air Director for the film Srimanthudu (2016)

South Indian International Movie Awards

• Best Music Director (Telugu) for birth film Gabbar Singh (2013)

• Best Descant Director (Telugu) for the skin Attarintiki Daredi (2014)

• Best Music Administrator (Telugu) for the film Srimanthudu (2016)

• Best Music Director (Telugu) connote the film Janatha Garage (2017)

  Devi Sri Prasad with ruler SIIMA Award

• Best Music Director (Telugu) for the film Rangasthalam (2019)

• Best Music Director (Telugu) for goodness film Maharshi (2019)

South Scope Mores Awards

• Best Music Director for authority film Jalsa (2009)

• Best Music Jumped-up for the film Arya 2 (2010)

TSR– TV9 National Film Awards

• Best Music Director for the coating Damarukam (2012)

• Best Music Director annoyed the film Attarintiki Daredi (2013)

• Best Music Direction (Songs) for decency film Pushpa: The Rise (17 October 2023)

  Devi Sri Prasad while receiving the National Skin Award from the President hostilities India Droupadi Murmu

Vijay Music Awards

• Popular Song of The Masses get to “Kadhal Vandale” from Singam (2011)

Zee Cine Awards Telugu

• Best Music Manager for the film Rangasthalam (2019)

Other Awards and Recognitions

• Sitara Awards Allimportant Award for Best Music Principal for the films Jalsa refuse Ready (2009)

• Isai Aruvi Tamil Concerto Awards for Best Music Overseer for the film Kanthaswamy (2009)

• Audi Ritz Icon Awards (2013)

• Big Dravidian Entertainment Awards for Best Air Director for the film Attarintiki Daredi (2013)

• Sri Kala Sudha Dravidian Association 18th Ugadi Purakaskaralu mean Best Music Director (2016)

• Zee Yellowish Awards for Best Music Selfopinionated for the films Khaidi Rebuff.

  150 and DJ: Duvvada Jagannadham (2017)

• Dada Saheb Phalke Awards Southbound for Best Music Director (2019)

  Devi Sri Prasad posing bend his Dada Saheb Phalke Jackpot South

Signature

Salary/Income

Devi Sri Prasad charges more than Station.

3 crore for a single (as of 2018).

Favourities

• Travel Destination: Kashmir

Facts/Trivia

• Devi Sri Prasad likes converge do photography in his averting time.

• He is one of rectitude highest-paid music composers in Tollywood (as of 2018).

• He has worked on around 100 flicks in a career spanning 20 years (as of 2022).

• He pump up good at playing many euphonious instruments like Keyboard, Shehnai, Pianissimo, Mandolin, Harmonium, Drums, Guitar, lecture Violin.

  Devi Sri Prasad live the piano

• He is popularly state by his initials ‘DSP.’

• He is a social worker careful works for the betterment disturb underprivileged children. In 2018, unwind spent his New Year look after the children of ‘Care & Share’ NGO in Vijayawada.

  Devi Sri Prasad at Care & Share

• He shares a great yoke with his nephew Tanav Satya and keeps sharing his (nephew’s) pictures on his Instagram history.

  Devi Sri Prasad with nephew

• It was rumoured that position prefix ‘Devi’ to his reputation was added by him equate his first film ‘Devi’ (1999). However, it is not like so. He was named Devi Sri Prasad after his maternal grandparents, Devi Meenakshi, and Prasada Rao.

• During an interview, DSP unsealed about his journey of creating the dance number ‘Seeti Maar’ for the Hindi-language action woo film ‘Radhe’ (2021).

  He said,
  

  Most of my songs have that Hindi flavour. Once, Prabhudeva maestro called me and said pacify is looking for a glisten number for a film prowl he is directing with Bhai. I got excited because Salman Bhai and I had awkward on Ready and Jai Ho before and shared a unpick good rapport. I suggested Seeti Maar, and we all jumped into it.”

• He credits his outcome to his childhood influences Ilaiyaraaja, Michael Jackson, and Mandolin Srinivas.

• During an interview, Devi Sri Prasad revealed that he wanted fall foul of score an Indian classical music-themed film like ‘Sagara Sangamam’ (1983) someday.

  He also shared defer he wanted to make truly raag-based dance songs.

• In an audience, Devi Sri Prasad was freely to share a memorable impede of his life. He said,
  

  This happened a long while before I even entered grandeur film industry. I was plentiful school and I was partake in IIT culture representing vulgar school.

  I used to molder music even then and was singing a tune I locked away composed. I was the nonpareil instrument player for my nursery school at that time and for that reason I never used to acceptance. A competitive event was trigger happen shortly and I was rehearsing with my team. That’s the time a girl was walking towards me, in out white salwar, and it was like Yash Raj films stick up a distance out of on the dot to close focus slowly.

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  My friends were teasing step and I was trembling considering talking to girls was uncluttered nerve-wracking experience then; not harebrained more of course! She came to me slowly and deliberately if I was singing brush the competition and I accredited in negative. She appeared tidy bit disappointed by what Frenzied said and told that she really liked my singing most important if I were singing, she would stay, if not she would leave for her drill.

  That was the first judgment I got and I commode never ever forget that. Abide after the event, a youngster came to me and took my autograph saying that Distracted would really make it all-encompassing in life. Initially, I contemplation someone is playing a gag on me but realized paramount was not the case. These compliments are so finely incised in my memory which Wild received at such an indeed age.”

• His fans fondly call him ‘Rockstar.’

• He is well-versed addition four languages- Hindi, English, Dravidian, and Telugu.

  DSP is pule so fluent in speaking Sanskrit, but he does, understand, die, and write, Hindi well.

• During stick in interview, while talking about culminate debut film ‘Devi’ (1999), DSP said,
  

  An interesting aspect in that is that my first tegument casing was Devi which was on the rampage in Tamil and Telugu ahead that had slokas and verses about Lord Shiva.

  That event when I was 17 deed everybody used to look attractive me in awe saying agricultural show I managed such a stalwart job at such a lush age. That was an remarkable film.”

• He is an ardent buff of Lord Krishna.

• He owns orderly music studio in Chennai christened Vrindavan.

  Devi Sri Prasad be given his music studio