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| Birth Name: | Salur Koteshwara Rao | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Mylapore, Chennai, India | ||||||
| Father: | S. Rajeswara Rao | ||||||
| Spouse: | S.Jyothi (m.1985), Chennai | ||||||
| Children: | 3 | ||||||
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| Signature: | Koti Signature.jpg | ||||||
Salur Koteshwara Rao, known professionally as Koti, is an Indian composer and singer who predominantly works in Telugu films . He has composed music for over 475 films.[1] The son of veteran composer S. Rajeswara Rao, in early 1980s Koti teamed with Somaraju (Raj), son of T. V. Raju, and the resulting duo was known as Raj–Koti.[1] The duo composed music for about 180 films from their debut in 1983 till their separation in 1994. After the separation, Koti has composed music and background score for more than 350 movies. He won the Nandi Award for Best Music Director for the film Hello Brother (1994).
He started his music career as an assistant to music director K. Chakravarthy. Composers such as A. R. Rahman, Mani Sharma, Harris Jayaraj and S. Thaman, worked as keyboard programmers with Koti during the initial part of their career.[2] Roshan Saluri, son of Koti is also introduced as film score composer.[3] Another son Rajeev Saluri started his career as an actor.[4]