Saluri Koteswara Rao, known professionally as Koti, is an Indian composer, record producer, and singer who predominantly works in Telugu and Hindi 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 300 movies. He won Nandi Award for Best Music Director for the film Hello Brother (1994).

Koti
Koti at Saluri Rajeswara Rao's 100th birth anniversary celebrations in Ravindra Bharathi on 17 October 2021
Born	Saluri Koteswara Rao
Parents	S. Rajeswara Rao (father) Rajeswari Devi (mother)
Musical career
Genres	Film score
Occupation(s)	Composer
Years active	1983-present
Musical artist

He started his music career as an assistant to music director K. Chakravarthy. Composers such as Mani Sharma, A. R. Rahman, Harris Jayaraj, Devi Sri Prasad 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]

Solo career filmography

References

External links

• Koti at IMDb