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Hindustani vocalist Pandit M. Venkatesh Kumar was born 1 July 1953 in Lakshmipura in the Bellary region of northern Karnataka. He is best known for his rendition of devotional songs composed by the Haridasa.
Kumar's late father Huleppa was a folk singer and leather puppeteer. 1968, when he was 12 years old, Venkatesh was taken by his uncle Belagallu Veeranna to the Veereshwara Punyashrama in Gadag, run by the Veerashaiva saint and Hindustani musician Puttaraj Gawai.
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