Some of his popular albums are Janha Re, Hey Priyatama, Manini, Kanya Kumari, Malliphula Gajara, Shila I Love You, Michhei Jhia, Lotani Para, Tu Besi Paduchu Mane, Nali Tikili, Rangani Phula, Premi, Sei Jhiati, etc. He has composed more than 200 Odia albums. Later his album Anamika Nayika under Sarthak Music had made him famous. In 1996 his 1st album Maa Gojabayani was released which is a devotional song. Later, he worked for many other Opera troupes like Parbati Gananaatya, Kalinga Gananatya, Tulasi Ganantya, Gouri Gananatya, Trinaatha Gananaatya, Shivani Ganantya, Tarapur Opera, and Indrabhubana Gananaatya. There he composed a song for the play named Naalu Bhai Ra Mo Naali Gaamuchhaa. Then he joined a school in Raygada as a music teacher, but later resigned from that post and started traveling from village to village and composing for plays and small opera troupes.Īfter school, Anand was composing music for small theaters and plays, but in 1993, he got a chance to compose one song for Janani Gananaatya, one of the famous Opera companies in Odisha. He graduated in history in 1997 from the Marshaghai College and later trained himself in Hindustani classical music. He honed his skills there under gurus like late Bhikari Bal, Gopala Chandra Panda, and Ramahari Das. His family was against his music career since childhood, but somehow he managed to learn harmonium from his village.Īfter passing out from the Gopinathpur Sanskrit Vidyalaya in the early 1990s, Prem Anand joined the Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya to learn music and trained himself in the Odissi.

He was the middle child of the family with an elder brother and a sister. Anand was born on 23 January 1975 at Saanagaan in Kendrapara district of Odisha to a Hindu family.

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