I have not checked the number of songs transliterated there. You find in this site the transliteration of his compositions with their content, background and meaning. I came to this site when I searched Google for Annamacharya. Just now I refreshed my knowledge that he composed 32000 Sankeerthanas. I learnt that he composed thousands of devotional songs. I have also heard other musicians like Sudha Raghunathan and the great maestro M.S. It was a tuneful collection and I particularly like Nityasree’s voice.

Just since a few days I had been listening to Nityasree’s renderings of some Annamacharya Keertanas from Music India online. I learnt more about Annamacharya then though I have not gained exhaustive knowledge, because like my book collections my saved favourites were never fully read by me. Straightaway, I started browsing the web and collected a good number of favourite websites which I earmarked. Later when we had our own PC at home I was initiated into the rudimentary uses of the computer. I was then told that these are Annamacharya’s compositions. The lyrics sounded good and they rendered the songs with fervour and expertise, their mother joining them in her equally good voice. Once when the lady brought her two daughters to our house, it somehow the two young ladies sang a couple of songs. We had a friendly family who have visited us occasionally. I must have listened to his compositions being sung since long years because a music lover need not know about the composer to appreciate his music and there is one particular incident which sharpened my taste for Annamacharya’s Kritis.

My answer to their doubt is that no one needs to be knowing anything at all about Annamacharya and yet be absorbed to him. I do not even know even a smatering of Telegu though living in Hyderabad since a few years now, I always hear Telugu being spoking all around me. They are quite justified for their scepticism because I am a Tamilian who had lived most of his life in Tamil Nadu. People who know me well will wonder what I can write about the great poet and devotee of Lord Venkateswara.

Compositions of Annamacharya Decemat 12:38 pm | Posted in Lord Venkateswara, Music India online, | 1 Comment

Annamayya song lyrics