Saluri Koteswara Rao, known professionally as Koti, is an Indian composer and singer who predominantly works in Telugu films .

[1] The duo composed music for about 180 films from their debut in 1983 till their separation in 1994.

After the separation, Koti has composed music and background score for more than 350 movies.

He won the Nandi Award for Best Music Director for the film Hello Brother (1994).

Composers such as A. R. Rahman, Mani Sharma, Harris Jayaraj and S. Thaman, worked as keyboard programmers with Koti during the initial part of their career.