O. P. Vyas
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Om Prakash Vyas |
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January 4, 1938 Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India |
| Died | 5 June 2015 (aged 77) Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, music director, lyricist, musician, singer, poet |
| Years active | 1965 - 2015 |
O. P. Vyas was an Indian lyricist, musician, singer and a poet from Rajasthan. His songs are mainly written and sung in the rajasthani language. His songs were based on the themes of Rajasthani culture, which became popular among the people of Rajasthan, besides Malva(Present-Day Madhya Pradesh) and many other township's in India. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Rajasthan.
He received the Sangeet Purodha Award (by RAJASTHAN SANGEET NATAK ACADEMY) for Best Music composition with folk tunes .
O.P. Vyas (Om Prakash Vyas) was born on 4 Jan 1938 to Amarkunwar and Ramchandra vyas in Jodhpur (Rajasthan State). The second eldest child in a family of five, O.P. Vyas was exposed to the musical influence of his father, who exposed him to traditional Music of rajasthan He was well on his way to becoming a lyricist, composer and singer.
He studied at Sumer Pushtikar High School, Jodhpur. After Intermediate school, he joined as a Teacher for Rajasthan Edu. Dept.
While working as a school teacher, he was passionate to study further and decided to gain university education. He completed his Bachelors in Arts from Rajputana University. While pursuing his bachelor's, he participated in state level and national level Youth Festival and had performed best in his patriotic songs and folk songs of Rajasthan. After completing his graduation, he then moved to Mumbai for further education in arts and joined J.J.School of Arts.
For a brief period of time, he worked at Ranglok films, as an assistant director where he assisted Mani bhai vyas.
In 1965 due to some family reasons he came back to Jodhpur and started working as a Teacher again.
In 1972 First time in Rajasthan, he held a musical night in Jodhpur, named as O.P Vyas NITE with the local musicians and singers.
At that function Barkatullah Khan(Former & Demised CM) appeared as a chief guest along with IMFA Chairman Sh. Ram Bohra (Demised) attended that night.
In 1973 MR. JAIN launched film a named are "MEERA BAI".directed by NAWAL KISHORE MATHUR.O.P.VYAS recorded all song of this film with singers VANI JAY RAM, SUMITRA LAHIRI, SUMAN KALYANPUR and O.P.VYAS dubbed team song of this film to his voice but unfortunately this movie was not completed.
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