# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saluri-koteswara-rao
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:58:11.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saluri-koteswara-rao"
name: "Saluri Koteswara Rao"
slug: "saluri-koteswara-rao"
description: "Saluri Koteswara Rao, known professionally as Koti, is an Indian composer and singer who predominantly works in Telugu films. He has composed music for over 528 films. The son of veteran composer S. Rajeswara Rao, in early 1980s Koti teamed up with Somaraju (Raj), son of T. V. Raju, and the resulting duo was known as Raj–Koti. 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 350 movies. He won the Nandi Award for Best Music Director for the film Hello Brother (1994)."
tagline: "Indian singer and composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saluri_Koti.jpg?width=1200"
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"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           46.27
  momentum:             0.5008544333704646
  historical:           4.951734666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467691/"
    handle:    "nm0467691"
sources:
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%81"
    title: "సాలూరు కోటేశ్వరరావు"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koti_(composer)"
    title: "Koti (composer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF_(%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B3%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D)"
    title: "கோட்டி (இசையமைப்பாளர்)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%B9%DB%8C_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "کوٹی (موسیقار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6d055d5f-a428-4f15-b3ef-69e3a72d930f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7406301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552984"
    title: "Saluri Koteswara Rao"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations