]Nanada Kumar is a Natural Musician. He is the fourth generation musician in the paramapara of St.Tyagaraja; Great Grandson of the great Pallavi Ramalingayya, grandson of musician couple Ramaiah-Varalakshmi, son and disciple of Mahamahopadhyaya Dr.R.Satyanarayana. His paternal uncles include Vocalists, Composers, Veena players, Painters, Sculptor, and Modeller of national stature.
Nanda Kumar’s:music has many features: rich, rangy, supple voice and extensive conventional repertoire; he is involved in resurrecting and reviving the beautiful and ancient wealth of song heritage of Indian: music of more than a thousand years ago like Svaranka, panchabhagi, Umatilaka, Sriranga, Kaivara, Sukasarita. He has also known for his research into the musical heritage of the great Haridasas of Kamataka. He has thus restored to the present such precious, rare and exquisite forms such as Gadya, Dandaka, Suladi, Vrittanam, Bhramaragita, Kriti archetypes, Mundige, and Gundakriya. He is the acknowledged for his rendering of these in their full shastra-ic authenticity. His researches into Dasasahitya and Kannada literature and their adoption into the classical, Music idiom have made him well known in the music fraternity of India. His Doctoral thesis is a Study of Sri Sripadaraya's Contribution to Karnataka Music. He is again known for composing and rendering highly learned and complex Avadhana Tala Pallavis in both suladi as well as desi talas. He is also well-known for his authoritative performance of the ancient musical forms: Ragalapti, Rupakalapti & Chaturadandi music. He has a huge repertoire of rare and unpublished compositions of the Rulers and great Master Composers of Mysore.
He was a research fellow of the Department of Culture, Government of India for having done research on the Ancient Prabandhas of Indian Music and contemporising them.
Nanda Kumar has sung in the National network of Doordarshan and other popular cable networks. He broadcasts frequently from All India Radio. He has published many audiocassettes and has composed innovative music for many inspired multimedia presentations. He has received high honor from Jagadguru Peethas and other esteemed art institutions of India.
Nanda Kumar has many interesting dimensions: he is adept in yoga, in Srividya Tantra {Kadimarga} and he is a wizard in predictive Astrology.