THE GREAT SAINT PURANDARADASA
Purandara Dasa (1484-1564) A prolific poet-composer and mystic of Vijayanagar, introduced a music course that is followed to the present day. He is noted for composing Dasa Sahithya, as a Bhakti movement vocalist. Musicologists call him the "Sangeeta Pitamaha" (lit. grandfather) of Carnatic music.