V Ramkrishna is one of the veterans of playback singing in Telugu. He is extremely popular. He had the credit of a number of extremely popular and good songs during the classical, golden age. He sang a number of legendary songs that will be remembered throughout the ages for the famed NT Rama Rao and some other well-known top stars of the screen. In fact, his voice will be remembered and recalled down the ages for quite some time now. Very recently, his fans, well-wishers and admirers were met with shocking news. The news was about the demise of this famed singer.
The reason for death
Ramakrishna was in the late year’s of60. In that he may be said to have passed away suddenly and quickly at an unfortunate age. However, there are reports that state that he was suffering from cancer. As a result, this sudden death did not come as a big shock for his family and close ones. However, this has not been able to restrict the pain and feeling of loss that the entire world feels for this sudden tragedy. The popular and admired singer is known to have passed away the previous night.
The legacy
The singer has left behind his family comprising of his wife and two children, a daughter and a son. The playback singer had a very successful musical career and was greatly appreciated during his time. He sang more than five thousand songs within just four decades. Some of his songs were great hits and became very popular at the grass root level. Some of the more popular songs include Andala Ramudu, Mutyala Muggu and Alluri Sitarama Raju. The songs that he sung for the famed TN Rama Rao were huge successes as well. The film was called Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swamy Charitra were he had a couple of playback songs.
Other achievements
The singer is also well known for a couple of devotional songs that were sung by him. His son is now a very popular actor in film and television. Thus, what he leaves behind is a very strong legacy of achievements and success. The world will remember him by his deeply soulful voice that will resound over the generations even when his soul has parted from this earth. Today, the music industry mourns the loss of one of its greatest gems and most treasured assets. Some well-known personalities from the industry were seen to have come to pay homage to this great star. These included singer S P Sailaja and Sunita along with directors of music such as R P Patnaik. They have been known to express the deepest regret for this unfortunate incident. Most of the well-known faces were seen to be recalling incidents and experiences that they had shared with him, recalling not just the legendary voice but also the kind of wonderful person and human being that he was. For a day the entire industry put down their busy schedules in order to pay respect to this man.