Annamacharya lived for 95 years until Phalguna Bahula (Krishna) Dvadasi (12th day after full moon) in the year Dhundhubhi (4 April 1503).ġ0-story tall statue of Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya located at the entrance of Tallapaka.Īnnamayya is said to have composed as many as 32,000 sankeertanas (songs) on the praise of lord Venkateswara of which only about 12,000 are available today. The Tallapaka compositions are considered to have dominated and influenced the structure of Carnatic music compositions. Their son, Pedda Tirumalacharya, and grandson, Tallapaka Chinnayya, were also composers and poets. His wife, Timmakka, had written Subhadra Kalyanam, and is considered the first female poet in Telugu literature. Even though his parents belonged to the Nandavarika Brahmin community of Smarta tradition, he took initiation into Vaishnavism and became a Vaishnava in the Ramanujacharya Sampradaya. Tallapaka Annamacharya was born on Vaishakha Shuddha Pournami in the year Sarwadhari () in Tallapaka, Near Rajampet Mandal, a village in present-day Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Annamayya keerthanalu shobha raju