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'''Annamalai Reddiyar''' or '''Reddiar''' (1865–1891) was a Tamil poet and composer.<br />
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Born in Sennikulam, [[Sankarankoil taluk]], [[Tirunelveli district]], Tamil Nadu, he studied Tamil under Ramaswami Pulavar and [[U. V. Swaminatha Iyer]] and was later patronised by the zamindar of Uttrumalai.<ref>{{cite book|author1=S. Ramanathan |title=Glimpses of Indian music |publisher=Sundeep |year=1982 |page=5–6}}</ref><br />
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He is particularly remembered for his ''Kavadi Chindu'', a genre of songs chanted by devotees of Lord [[Murugan]] while performing [[Kavadi Attam]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Ganga Ram Garg |title=Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1992 |isbn=9788170223757|page=496}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/dancing-tunes/article5272174.ece |author=T. Saravanan |title=Dancing tunes |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=25 October 2013 |accessdate=21 August 2017}}</ref><br />
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