Swaraveenapani

Swara Veenapani (born Vogeti Naga Venkata Ramana Murthy) is a lyricist and Telugu cinema music director. He holds a Guinness world record for longest church organ marathon.[1]

Swaraveenapani
Born
Ravela
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndian
EducationLL.B
OccupationLyricist, music director
Home townGuntur

Career

Swara Veenapani's first film was "Pattukondi Chooddam" had a box office run of 100 days.[2] Veenapani's latest films are Devasthanam[3][4] and Mithunam.[5][6][7] Recently he completed his research on 72 Melakartha Ragaas and he brought the entire theme as a song in a span of 6 and 1/2 minute and the other version is of 3 and 1/2 minute. He has been working for the last 16 years on the Swaranidhi project[8] which has been registered as Swaranidhi. He is working vigorously to spread the same to the World which can be most useful to the Music Students, Musicians and Music Lovers to know the capsule format of 72 Mela karta ragas in an easy way. Swaranidhi project got a huge applause from the stalwarts of Indian Music.

Guinness record

Swara Veenapani has set a Guinness world record for longest marathon church organ playing by rendering the 72 Melakarta ragas continuously on his musical instrument for 61 hours and 20 minutes(2 days 13 hours 20 minutes) at an event in London on 2 October 2019.[9][10]

Personal life

He was born in Ravela village, Tadikonda Mandal in Guntur district to Seetha Annapurnamma and Vogeti Lakshmi Narasimha Sastry. He is married to Lakshmi and has two children.

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References
  1. "Longest marathon church organ playing". Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records.
  2. "Swara Veenapani | Lyricist Swara Veenapani | Devasthanam | Tanikella Bharani | Janardhana Maharshi - Interviews". CineGoer.com. 15 January 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  3. "Song on purpose". The Hindu. 15 January 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  4. "Etv2 : Lyricist Swara Veenapani about Devasthanam movie". teluguportals.com. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  5. "Mithunam in Cinemas on 21st December". Ragalahari. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  6. "Midhunam Songs - Midhunam Telugu Movie Songs - Telugu Songs Lyrics Trailer Videos, Preview Stills Reviews". Raaga.com. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  7. "Swara Veenapani Praised K. J. Yesudas for Midhunam". Idlytv.com. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  8. "swaranidhi". www.swaranidhi.org.
  9. India, The Hans (10 October 2019). "Telugu music director makes it to Guinness World Record". www.thehansindia.com.
  10. "Longest marathon church organ playing". Guinness World Records.


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