He sang the bhajana songs he learnt there at temples during his travels. He played an active role in the devotional music sessions at the home of Neelakantha Sivan at Tiruvanantapuram. Ramaiya learned Malayalam and Sanskrit and graduated in grammar. Her brother-in-law was a priest at the Padmanabha Swamy temple there. Some of the songs he composed for films (like Maa Ramanan) are today rendered on the Carnatic music Carnatic stage.īorn at Polagam village in Tanjavur district to Yogambal and Ramamrita Iyer, Ramiah moved to Tiruvanantapuram where his mother took him and his siblings after his father’s death in 1897, when the boy was barely seven. His simple lyrics were pregnant with bhakti. He also taught music at Kalakshetra, at the invitation of its founder Rukmini Devi Arundale he was one of the galaxy of great music and dance gurus she gathered around her. With several hundred songs in a variety of ragas and in three languages to his credit, Polagam Ramaiya often performed his own songs on the stage, even acted in films and sang in them songs he composed. Tamizh Tyagayya! To be compared to the incomparable Tyagaraja is the highest reward a vaggeyakara can aspire to in Carnatic music, and Papanasam Sivan earned the honour with his extraordinary oeuvre of bhakti-soaked lyrics in Tamil, Sanskrit and Telugu.
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