Background
His father, Suryaprakasa Rao, was a priest and agriculturist and his mother Saraswatamma is a housewife.
His father, Suryaprakasa Rao, was a priest and agriculturist and his mother Saraswatamma is a housewife.
Ramajogayya Sastry born in Arepalli Muppalla, Ipuru Mandal near Narasaraopet of Guntur district. He did his Bachelor of Technology at National Institute of Technology Warangal and Master of Technology at IIT Kharagpur. He was working as a metallic engineer at Bengaluru when his career as a lyricist began.
Worked in General Electric India Business Center in Secunderabad
as a lyricist
Sastry penned lyrics for over a hundred films in Telugu and is a famous lyricist in Andhra Pradesh.
He also wrote lyrics for a few Kannada songs. He is popular for his peppy and catch lyrics, while he has frequently shown his ability to write lyrics for more serious situations in films.
He fancied becoming a singer. He first penned lyrics for a Kannada film.
Film Star V. Ravichandran introduced him to Krishna Vamsi who in turn introduced him to Sirivennela Sitaramasastri.
Upon Sastry"s request, Seetharama Shastri accepted him as his protégé thus enabling him to hone his lyric-writing skills. Sastry first penned lyrics for the movie Yuvasena, a remake of the Malayalam film 4 The People. Actor-producer Mohan Babu and film director Srinu Vytla offered Sastry to work in many of their films before he rose to stardom with the song Om namaste bolo (Telugu: ఓం నమస్తే బోలో) in the film Ready.
(Telugu: సదాశివ సన్యాసీ!) in the film Khaleja, which proved his multifaceted talent.
He played an un-credited role in King as a music assistant.