Satyam (composer)

Satyam
సత్యం
Background information
Born
Chellapilla Satyanarayana

1933
DiedJanuary 1989 (aged 55–56)
OccupationMusic director
InstrumentsDholak, Tabla
Years active1960s–1980s

Chellapilla Satyanarayana Sastry (1933 – 12 January 1989), known mononymously as Satyam, was an Indian music composer. He was popular in the Telugu and Kannada film industries in the 1960s to 1980s. Sathyam is best remembered as "Andhra R. D. Burman". He also composed a handful of Bengali, Bhojpuri, and Hindi films.