Chellapilla Satyam

Chellapilla Satyanarayana Sastry, better known as Chellapilla Satyam (1933 - 12 January 1989) was an Indian music director.[1] He was popular in the Telugu and Kannada cinema fields in 1960s and 1980s. He was introduced in films by director M.Nageshwara Rao through the popular silver jubilee Kannada hit Sri Ramanjaneya Yuddha. Sathyam is best remembered as "Andhra RD Burman".[2] He also composed to handful of Bengali, Bhojpuri and Hindi movies.

Chellapilla Satyam చెళ్ళపిళ్ళ సత్యం
Background information
Birth name	Chellapilla Satyanarayana
Born	1933 Andhra Pradesh
Died	January 1989 (aged 55–56)
Occupation(s)	Music director
Instruments	DolakTabla
Years active	1960s – 1980s

He was born in Gunanupuram village in Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh. He has acted in some plays with popular writer Rajasri and others at Vizianagaram. He later shifted to Madras worked in the orchestra under P. Adinarayana Rao and T. V. Raju. He was assistant composer in the magnum opus film Suvarna Sundari (1957). His debut film as a full-fledged music director is Pala Manasulu in 1967, though he was credited as a music director in 1963 with NTR's Savati Koduku.

Some of his memorable Telugu hit songs are Ye divilo virisina parijatamo, Gunna mamidi komma meeda , O bangaru rangula chilaka, Kalise kalla lona, Puche pula lona, Tholi valape teeyanidi, Madhumasa velalo, Kurisindi vana.[3]

Sudigadu fame music director Sri Vasanth is his Grandson.

In memory of Satyam musical night was organized by Bay Area Telugu Association and Chimata Music in California, USA in 2009.[4]