Darshanam Mogilaiah was born on in 1951 and known as Kinnera Mogulaiah, is an artist from the Indian state of Telangana and is one among a few surviving performers of a tribal musical instrument known by the name Kinnera.
11 Facts About Darshanam Mogilaiah
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Darshanam Mogilaiah was the first person to create a 12-stair kinnera and he is the only artist who makes and plays the 12-step kinnera.
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Darshanam Mogilaiah has had not much formal education and has had no steady job with an assured income.
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Darshanam Mogilaiah has seen much hardships and his life had been very difficult eking out a living doing odd jobs like a daily wager in construction sites.
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Darshanam Mogilaiah had worked as a laborer for 14 years in Adilabad, Karimnagar and Warangal.
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Darshanam Mogilaiah had worked at a construction site in Mumbai.
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Darshanam Mogilaiah's ancestors made the kinnera with seven, eight or nine stairs.
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Darshanam Mogilaiah was the first to make a kinnera with 12 stairs.
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Darshanam Mogilaiah's forefathers used women's hair, horse-tail hair and even animal nerves as the strings.
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Darshanam Mogilaiah had started traveling with his father from the age of eight.
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Darshanam Mogilaiah has sung a part of the title song of the 2022 Telugu language action drama film, Bheemla Nayak directed by Saagar K Chandra and starring Pawan Kalyan.