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Gayaka Sarvabhauma Sri Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu (1883–1951) was a Carnatic vocalist. He is better known as a Guru producing maestros like M.Balamuralikrishna and many more renowned musicians.
Sri Pantulu was a direct descendant of the sisya parampara of Saint Thyagaraja. In the order of Guru Parampara, the musician is directly the fourth in the line of disciples of saint Tyagaraja, after Susarla Dakshinamoorthy Sastry, Akumadugula Manambuchavadi Venkata Subbayya and Saint Tyagaraja.
Born on the 15th of December 1882 to Smt. Mangamma and Sri . Seshachalam at Village Srikakulam, Krishna District ofAndhra Pradesh, Sri. Pantulu garu (Garu - an honorific title). After formal education and upanayanam (formal coming-of-age ceremony), took up the job of Thanedar - a village law enforcement official in the principality of Challapalli in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh
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