33 year old Devi Sri Prasad is a Popular Telugu Singer and Music Director. He was born on 2nd August 1979 at Vedurupaka in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh and moved to Chennai. His father G Sathya Murthy is a writer and by profession a school teacher. He did his schooling at Chennai and participated in singing and dancing competitions and won several laurels. He pocketed numerous prizes at several Inter School Dance and Music Competitions. His zeal for music made him release his first musical album “Dance Party”. He is a student of renowned Mandolin Player U Srinivas. He is a big fan of the music maestros Ilaya Raja and A R Rahman.
“Devi” (released in 1999) is the first film as a music composer for Devi Sri Prasad. With this start, he has gone ahead with scoring music for many Telugu Hit Movies. Today he is one of the famous music directors, the Telugu Cinema can boast of.
He is also a good dancer. He has penned few lyrics for few Telugu films.
He has also leant his voice as a play back singer.
His younger brother Sagar is also a playback singer and a T V Anchor.
Awards :
- Filmfare Award (South) for 2004 as the Best Music Director for the film “VARSHAM”.
- Santhosham Award as the Best Music Director for the film “VARSHAM”.
- Filmfare Award (South) for 2005 as Best Music Director for the film “NUVVOSTHANANTE NENODDANTANA”.
- Santhosham Award for 2005 as Best Music Director for the film “NUVVOSTHANANTE NENNODDANTANA”.
- Filmfare Award (South) for 2006 as Best Music Director for the film “BOMMARILLU”.
- Santhosham Award for 2008 as Best Music Director for the film “JALSA”.
- CineMaa Award for 2010 as Best Music Director for the film “ARYA 2”.
Gabbar Singh is also a musical hit and the film is getting released on 9th August 2012.
The list of his films as music director:
- Devi
- Navvuthubrathakalira
- Kalusukovalani
- Sontham
- Khadgam
- Manmadhudu
- Thotti Gang
- Varsham
- Venky
- Arya
- Arya 2
- Aaru
- Bommarillu
- Jagadam
- Sankar dada MBBS
- Sankar dada Jindabad
- Yamakantri
- Adurs
- Manmadhabaanam
- Naa Alludu
- Nuvvosthanante Nennodantana
- Bunny
- Bhadra
- Oka Voorilo
- Andarivadu
- Paurnami
- Raakhi
- Aata
- Tulasi
- Jalsa
- Ready
- King
- Mallanna
- Current
- Namo Venkatesa
- Dhada
- Mr Perfect
- 100% Love
- Oosaravelli
- Gabbar Singh
Up coming films of Devi Sri Prasad:
- Julayi
- Damarukam
- Yevadu
- Cameraman Ganga Tho Ram Babu
- Sir Vaccharu
- Zanjeer (Telugu and Hindi)
- Vaaradhi
- Chandrudu
- Jesus
He has scored music for about 50 Telugu films apart from busy with many Tamil films as a Music Director.
Businessoftollywood.com wishes him a Happy Birthday with more expectations from this young genius in music.