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Born 1932 at Bezwada. Married Vimala Basavaraju d/o Suryanarayana and Sakuntala Basavaraju on 29-4-1960 in Hyderabad.

Damodara Rao worked as a high school teacher in Hyderabad. He taught Mathematics and English. His education, B. Sc and B.Ed were from Andhra Unversity. He moved to Hyderabad for his first job assignment. As an office bearer of Dasu Sreeramulu Smaraka Samithi, he was instrumental in bringing many works of Dasu Sreeramulu to re-print. He is an ardent lover of classical music. Currently he lives in US. Lately he has taken up a major assignment of translating keertanas of great composers such as Tygaraja, Annamacharya and Syama Sastri into English. Sole aim of this project is to help large number non-telugu learners of Carnatic Music understand the bhava behind these great works.
Website is www.sangeetasudha.org

Dasu Damodara Rao got his website Sangeeta Sudha printed as book. It has about 2200 Karnatic lyrics transliterated and translated into English. The book was released on 16th April 2017 in Saibaba temple Auditorium by Smt. Jayashree Varadarajan, Principal, Sri Rama Lalita Kala Mandir ,Sunnyvale. Principals of Music Schools Smt.Asha Ramesh and Smt. Anuradha Sridhar also graced the occasion. In the month of October , She also honored him on the occasion of Annual Day of their college. The website has become the most popular portal for Karnatic music lyrics.









moreinfo:- www.sangeetasudha.org
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