Malladi Suri Babu is a distinguished Carnatic vocalist from a respected musical family in Vijayawada, who inherited his art from his father, Harikatha exponent Malladi Sri Rama Murthy. A long-time All India Radio Vijayawada musician and announcer, he trained under stalwarts Voleti Venkateswarlu and Dr. Sripada Pinakapani and has performed widely across India and abroad. Renowned for classic, bhava-rich renditions of the Carnatic Trinity’s works, he is particularly acclaimed for his scholarly tuning and presentation of Kshetrayya padams and Tallapaka Annamacharya krithis, which he has recorded and taught extensively. He has been honoured with major titles including Kala Ratna (2013) from the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the TTK Award of the Madras Music Academy (2014). The illustrious Malladi brothers are his sons.