# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanaka-dasa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:17:06.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanaka-dasa"
name: "Kanaka Dasa"
slug: "kanaka-dasa"
description: "Kanaka Dasa (1509–1606) also known as Daasashreshta Kanakadasa, was a Haridasa saint and philosopher of Dvaita Vedanta, from present-day Karnataka, India. He was a follower of Madhvacharya's Dvaita philosophy and a disciple of Vyasatirtha. He was a composer of Carnatic music, poet, reformer and musician. He is known for his keertanas and ugabhoga, and his compositions in the Kannada language for Carnatic music. Like other Haridasas, he used simple Kannada and native metrical forms for his compositions."
tagline: "Indian philosopher, musician and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kanakadasa_art.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
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birthDate: "1509"
deathDate: "1609"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump