By the 1950's it started taking a good shape and a highly talented musician - P. Kalinga Rao was instrumental in spreading this art form.
Kalinga | Narasimha Rao | Rao Bahadur | Anabheri Prabhakar Rao | Kota Srinivasa Rao | Rao Tula Ram | Kalinga Kingdom | Rao | Kalinga (India) | Dasari Narayana Rao | Amrita Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Kavikondala Venkata Rao | Kala Venkata Rao | S. Rao Kosaraju | Rajanala Kaleswara Rao | Kalinga-Apayao | Damerla Rama Rao | B. A. Subba Rao | Pappu Venugopala Rao | Michael Rao | Mallikarjuna Rao (actor) | Mallikarjuna Rao | Jaladi Raja Rao | Ganapathi Rao Aigal | Easwari Rao | C. R. Rao | Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao | B. Narsing Rao | Aluru Venkata Rao |
P.Kalinga Rao, Mysore Ananthaswamy, C.Aswath, H. K. Narayana, Padmacharan, H.R.Leelavathi, Baalappa Hukkeri, Raju Ananthaswamy, N.S.Prasad, B.K.Chandrashekar, B.V.Srinivas, Sunitha Ananthaswamy, Jayashree Arvind, Praveen D Rao, Pravin Godkhindi, M.D.Pallavi, Archana Udupa,chidambara kalamanji, Upasana Mohan,vasantha kanakapur, Gartikere Raganna, Manjula Gururaj