# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/g-k-venkatesh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:53:52.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/g-k-venkatesh"
name: "G. K. Venkatesh"
slug: "g-k-venkatesh"
description: "Gurusala Krishnadas Venkatesh was an Indian film score composer who primarily worked in Kannada cinema during the 1960s, 1970s and until the late-1980s. He also composed music for Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films. He produced numerous master pieces of Kannada film music and also brought in Western background score into Kannada films and scored music for all Bond movies of Rajkumar in the 1960s to 1970s."
tagline: "Indian film score composer, music composer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/G.K.VenkateshPic.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1927-09-21"
deathDate: "1993-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.55
  momentum:             8.293162411545826
  historical:           6.750948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1040056/"
    handle:    "nm1040056"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump