Tyagaraja, a well-known Carnatic music composer, born in 1767.
After the fall of the Vijayanagar Empire at the end of the 16th century, many Hindu families migrated to the southern districts of Tamilnadu, which were still calm under the benign rule of the Nayakas and Maratha monarchs. A number of Telugu families moved south and established centres of art and culture, and Tyagaraja's forefathers belonged to one such group, the Kakarla family from Kakarla village in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool District. Thyagaraja was born at Tiruvarur on May 4, 1767. He was the third son of Sri Ramabrahmam and Sitamma, who lived at Tirumanjana Veethi in Tiruvayyaru at the time.
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