# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kancherla-gopanna
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:58:29.581Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kancherla-gopanna"
name: "Kancherla Gopanna"
slug: "kancherla-gopanna"
description: "Kancharla Gopanna, popularly known as Bhakta Ramadasu or Bhadrachala Ramadasu, was a 17th-century devotee of the Hindu god Rama, a saint-poet and a composer of Carnatic music. He is a famous Vaggeyakara from the Telugu classical era. He was born in the village of Nelakondapalli in Khammam district, and orphaned as a teenager. He spent his later years in Bhadrachalam and 14 years in solitary confinement at the Golconda prison during the Qutb Shahi rule. Different mythical stories about his life circulate in the Telugu tradition. He is renowned for constructing the famous Sita Ramachandraswamy Temple and pilgrimage center on the banks of river Godavari at Bhadrachalam. His devotional kirtana lyrics to Rama illustrate the classical Pallavi, Anupallavi and Charanam genre composed mostly in Telugu, some in Sanskrit and with occasional use of Tamil language. These are famous in South Indian classical music as Ramadaasu Keertanalu."
tagline: "Composer and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bhakta_Ramadasu_statue_in_Bhadrachalam.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1620"
deathDate: "1688"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.072507552870089
  historical:           4.927578666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ഭദ്രാചലം രാമദാസ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "भद्राचलम् रामदासु"
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    title: "பத்ராச்சல இராமதாசு"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump