– Devi Sri Prasad was born on August 2nd,1982 in Amalapuram,East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh.
– His Father is the noted Telugu scriptwriter, composer and singer Satya Murthy. People can associate Telugu films like Chanti, Maathrudevobhava, Pedarayadu, which are script oriented.
– Devi Sri Prasad’s main inspiration is his father. His sister Padmini Priya Sagar can dance and sing. She got married. His younger brother Vidya Sagar is a singer and can pay Mandolin.He received Nandi award for “yedo priya ragam vintunna” song in “Arya”. Most of his family members are into the Music Forte.
– What makes him different from others is that he is one of the youngest music directors, composers, lyricists and also a pop-artiste who could scale to great heights in a very shot span.
– At an age when guys were just freaking out in college and not into real serious business, Devi Sri Prasad’s jargon was all about tracks, recording, sequencers, vocals, patch and midi.
– “Love Music, Live Music” is his tagline.
– Though born in Amalapuram he was brought up in Chennai.– His father presented him a small keyboard when he was in 7th standard and that changed his life.
– He used to spend most of his time experimenting with the keyboard both at school and at home. After realizing his interest towards keyboard his father joined him to learn mandolin under the guidance of Mandolin Srinivas.He learned mandolin for more than 10 years.
– He had served as the ‘cultural secretary’ in his school. He was the school pupil leader and also the recipient of the ‘Best Outgoing Student’ award from his school.
– It was during these competitions only Devi met Sumangali who was representing other school in singing competitions.
– He also got several prizes in dance competitions along with light music at school.He studied up to BBA.
– His music indulgence started off after an interesting experience. Once his school head master was asking the students in his class as to what they would like to become. Among consistent and monotonous answers like doctors and engineers, He was the one who stood up and said that he wanted to become a music director. Everyone in the class looked at him with amazement.
– It might have started as a statement in the beginning, but over the years he felt that he was literally moving into that field. Students called him as ‘Illayaraja Jr’.
– He started off with an album project when he was in his 7th standard. He went over lot of improvisation over the years.
– But getting a break was not a cake walk for Devi. He faced lot of problems in promoting his “Mr. Devi” album. He said once that, he roamed on cycle around various audio cassette companies. He also remembers one incident where in he had to wait for 2 hours at the entrace gate of Gemini TV’s office. Altast he had to use big contacts of his father, writer Satynand, and Allu Arvind to release the audio.
– The song ‘Aye Unnoda’ was a major break for me,’ remarks Prasad. He did the music for the song and worked on the lyrics with one of his friends.He also rendered the song. ‘Aye Unnoda’ became a part of his portfolio, which attracted a lot of ears. Magna Sound spotted his talent. The song got featured in the Magna Sound collection of Tamil pop songs called ‘Dance Party’. This album, along with the video, catapulted his music career into a new dimension. Later on, Magna Sound gave Prasad an even better option. A wholly dedicated album was the offer. With the release of Mr. Devi by Magna Sound, Devi’s dream project got a concrete form.
– He started his career by scoring music to a serial “50-50″ in Gemini TV. He also sang the title song for that serial. I still remember the pallavi of the song.
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