Balakrushna Das
Sangeeta Sudhakara Balakrushna Dash was a veteran Guru of Odissi music. He worked variously as a vocalist, composer and music director. He received the Odisha Sangeet Natak Academy award in 1975-76 for Odissi Vocal. He was an Odissi classical music teacher on Odissi Research Centre of Cultural department
Balakrushna Das started his music career as a singer of Odissi, Bhajan and Chhandas at AIR, Calcutta in the year 1944. Later he started working as music director in films. His first film as a music director was Kedar Gouri in 1954. He directed music in 20 films and hundreds of non-film albums including Odissi, Drama, Theatre and music programs for the AIR, Cuttack.
