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Born to late Sri Rama Murthy Pantulu of the Pithapuram Estate Office and Smt. Vijayalakshmi on 10th October 1927 at Kothapalli, Pithapuram Taluk, Sri krishna Murthy bears deep musical heredity through his mother and maternal uncle.

Sri Krishna Murthy joined the Maharajah's Music College at Vizianagaram in the year 1940 and received his initial training in Violin and Vocal from the Late Sri Dwaram Narasinga Rao Naidu and has started giving Vocal Music performances since 1945. In 1949 he came under the influence of great master Sangeetha Kalanidhi - Padmabhushan Dr. Sripada Pinakapani and under his guidance formed a style of his own, followed by many. Sri Nedunuri is a top rank artiste in the A.I.R. and has been regularly participating in the Music conferences held under the auspices of the Music Academy Madras since 1951 and also giving performances all over India as a front rank artiste.

Sri Krishna Murthy was the Principal of S.V. College of Music & Dance, Tirupati, M.R. Govt. College of Music & Dance, Vizianagaram, Govt. College of Music & Dance, Secunderabad and retired as the Principal of G.V.R Govt. College of Music & Dance, Vijayawada in 1985.

Sri Krinsha Murthy was the Dean of Faculty of the Fine Arts and also was the Chairman of Board of Studies in Music of Sri Venkateswara University. He was the Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nagarjuna University and Chairman of the Board of Studies. He is a Member of The Carnatic Music Audition Board of All India Radio and is a Member of Experts Committee of the Music Academy of Madras. Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, one of the reputed music sabhas of Madras City conferred on him the title Sangeetha Choodamani in July 1976.

Sri Kriahna Murthy has been appointed as Asthana Vidwan of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams in recognition of the valuable services rendered by him for populating the compositions of the great composer Annamacharya. The T.T.D has released 2 cassettes of his renderings of Annamacharya 's compositions. A book consisting of 30 Sankeerthanas of Annamacharya with Nedunuri's Notation was published in 1994 with the financial assistance of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam by name Annamayya Pada Sowrabham and Part II of the same with 30 more Sankeerthanas was also published with the sponsorship of Annamacharya Project of North America (SAPNA). One more cassette of Annamacharya's sankeerthanas has been released recently with the sponsorship of Smt. Sridevi Rangaraj of Chicago, USA and Smt. Jyotsna Potharaju and Sreedhar Potaraju (Potomac, U.S.A). 'Annamacharya Padartha Prakasika' a treatise giving the quintessence in Telugu, of the 108 compositions of Annamarcharya tuned by Nedunuri was the latest release by Nada Sudha Tarangini in April 02.

Sri Nedunuri released a CD in 1995 with the sponsorship of Sri Garimella Ramarao, USA. He also released one CD in 2000, rendering the compositions of Annamacharya. A second CD of Annamacharya's compositions was released in 2002, with the special financial grant from the Dept. of Tourism and Culture, Govt. of India. He has also presented many compositions of Sri Bhadrachala Ramadas and Tarangams of Narayana Teertha in the Bhakthi Ranjani of All India Radio, which became very popular. Sri Nedunuri recently released a CD of Bhadrachala Ramadasa compositions, which is ready for release.

Sri Nedunuri visited United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Singapore and enthralled the audience with his scintillating music. His dedication to the cause of Annamayya Sankeerthana has attacted global attention.

Sri Nedunuri is a National Awardee of Central Sanget Natak Academy, Delhi for the year 1986. Sri Nedunuri was the Visiting Professor in the Music Department of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam during 1990-1995. Sri Nedunuri was appointed as Asthana Vidwan of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham in October 1991. The Music Academy of Madras conferred on Sri Nedunuri the most prestigious title of Sangeetha Kalanidhi in December 1991.

Prominent disciples of Nedunuri :

• Kalaprapurna Sri D. Chitti Abbayi
• Smt. Koka Satyavathi
• Smt. K. Saraswati Vidyarthi
• Sri G. Balakrishna Prasad
• Smt. Shobha Raju
• Malladi Brothers (Sriram Prasad and Ravi Kumar)