Thursday, March 16, 2023

Dr. Bidari Siddappa Sabanna

 

Siddappa Bidari was born in Bilagi in 1956 to Gouramma and Sabanna in a shepherd's family. He spent his childhood grazing livestock and later lambs and goats. It used to be a community custom to sing while working as a form of entertainment. Similarly, he began singing cinema -movie songs and tunes at first. 
During the Ganesh festival celebrations, his singing earned him a book and a pen as a reward. With that, he approached Dr. Sreeram Ittannavar, a folklore song writer and also was a lecturer in Shree Siddeshawar college bilgi. He appreciated Siddappa, encouraged him and gave a book, Holisala balli, a compilation of songs written by him. 
This was the initiation, and the artist in him arose, and Siddappa began singing melodies about his own emotions and preferences. He is a kind of Ashu Kavi. You give him any topic, He sings a poem right there on that topic. This resulted in the outcome of more than 27 books of poems:    
  1. Holisala Hori 1990
  2. Hattona Ba Preeti Gaadi 1992
  3. Anubhavada Adigi 1994
  4. Maatu Manikya 1999
  5. Muttona Preeti Chukki 2000
  6. Kereya Neera Kerege Chelleeni 2002
  7. Bittoon Ba Jaat Mutta 2003
  8. Jaanapada Jaanguti 2003
  9. Hattaito Uri     2003
  10. Namma Devru 2004
  11. Ida Nanna Baduku 2005
  12. Devara Jagala 2005
  13. Gelati Nenapinorti
  14. Galam Gutak
  15. Tirukaru
  16. Maaye
  17. Nudi Muttina Maali 2010
  18. Basavanna Nenapina Butti
  19. Maye Ninna Maat Keli
  20. Koosina Kanasa 2010
  21. Adavi Mallige 2010
  22. Basavanna Nenapina Butti 2013
  23. Galam Gutak 2013
  24. Tirukaru 2013
  25. Maayi 2016
  26. Kalyanada Sharanaru 2016
  27. Jatiya Jatre2016 and so on...
He has been blessed and appreciated by numerous noted famous personalities of Kannada. A dramatic situation in him is: he cannot read or write. All the above said books are the compilation of poems sung by him and employed others to write them. 
He is a unique individual who can rightfully be described as a "ILLITERATE INTELLECTUAL."
He received lot of awards like Karnataka Ratna , Kannada Rajyostav prashasti , ambikatanayadatta award etc...

Some of his singing videos :


You can get lot of videos of his singing on youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=siddappa+bidari 

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