Kadapa, July 13, 2013: Faculty members of Yogi Vemana University Fine Arts Department mourned the demise of acclaimed Carnatic vocalist Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana on Friday and described him as a music prodigy. YVU faculty members K. Mrutyunjaya Rao, M. Mallikarjuna Reddy, Y. Manohar, P. Santosh Kumar and V. Sudhakar paid rich tributes and said his death was a great loss to classical music lovers. It would be difficult to fill the vacuum created by the music legend, they said.

Source: The Hindu, DT. July 13, 2013.