Salur Koteswara Rao, popularly known as Koti, is an Indian music director, composer, musician and television talent-show mentor associated primarily with the Telugufilm industry. Coming from a distinguished musical family, he is the son of veteran music director S. Rajeswara Rao, one of the influential composers of South Indian cinema. Koti has had a career spanning approximately five decades and has been associated with more than 550 films, while also contributing to television, live concerts and the mentoring of emerging singers and musicians. In early 1980s Koti teamed up with Somaraju, son of T. V. Raju, and the resulting duo was known as Raj–Koti. The duo composed music for about 180 films from their debut in 1983 till their separation in 1994. After the separation, Koti has composed music and background score for more than 350 movies. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koti_(c...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)