Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam ( pronunciation (helpinfo)) is an

Indian film playback singer, actor, music director, voice actor and film producer. He is
mostly referred to as S. P. B. or Balu. He has won the Guinness World Record for
recording the highest number of songs.[1][2][3] He won the National Film Award for Best
Male Playback Singer six times and the Nandi Awards in Telugu cinema 25 times from
the Government of Andhra Pradesh.[4][5][6][7]
He has sung over 40,000 songs in various Indian languages.[8] He has won National Film
Awards across four languages as well as a Filmfare Award, five South Filmfare Awards
and numerous state awards from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. He is a recipient of civilian
awards such as Padmashri (2001) and Padma Bhushan (2011) from the government of
India.[9]

Contents

1 Early life and background

2 Personal life
3 Early career: 1960s1970s
4 International recognition: 1980s
5 1990s
6 2000s-present
7 Voice actor
8 Filmography
9 Awards and nominations
10 References
11 External links

Early life and background

Balasubrahmanyam was born to S. P. Sambamurthy in Konetammapeta, Nellore district,
of Andhra Pradesh.[10] Balasubrahmanyam's father was a Harikatha artiste who had also
acted in plays.[11] He has two brothers and five sisters, including singer S.P. Sailaja.[12][13]
Balasubrahmanyam developed an interest towards music at an early age, studied
notations and learned to play instruments such as the harmonium and flute on his own
while listening to his father. He enrolled at JNTU College of Engineering Anantapur with
the intention of becoming an engineer. He discontinued his studies early due to typhoid
and joined as an Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers, Chennai.[8][14]
He continued to pursue music during his engineering studies and won awards at singing
competitions. In 1964, he won the first prize in a music competition for amateur singers
organised by the Madras-based Telugu Cultural Organisation. He was the leader of a light
music troupe composed of Anirutta (on the harmonium), Ilaiyaraaja (on guitar and later
on harmonium), Baskar (on percussion), and Gangai Amaran (on guitar).[15] He was
selected as the best singer in a singing competition which was judged by S. P.

Kodandapani and Ghantasala.[16][17] Often visiting music composers seeking opportunities,

his first audition song was "Nilave Ennidam Nerungadhe". It was rendered by veteran
playback singer P. B. Srinivas, who used to write and give him multi-lingual verses in
Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, English and Urdu.[18]

Personal life
Balasubramanyam is married to Savitri and has two children, Pallavi[19][20] and S. P. B.
Charan. Charan is also a playback singer and film producer.[21][22]

Early career: 1960s1970s

Balasubrahmanyam made his debut as a playback singer in 1966 with Sri Sri Sri
Maryada Ramanna, a Telugu film scored by his mentor, S. P. Kodandapani.[23][24] The first
Non-Telugu song that he recorded just eight days after his debut Telugu song was in
Kannada in 1966 for the film 'Nakkare Ade Swarga' starring Kannada comedy stalwart T.
R. Narasimharaju.[25][26] He recorded his first Tamil song "Eyarkai ennum illaya kanni" in
the 1969 film Shanthi Nilaiyam starring Gemini Ganesan. He sang "Aayiram Nilavae
Vaa" for M.G.R in the Tamil film Aadimai Penn.[27] He was then introduced to Malayalam
film industry by G. Devarajan in the film Kadalppalam.[28]
He has the rare distinction of rendering most number of songs on a single day by any
singer. He has recorded 21 songs in Kannada for the composer Upendra Kumar in
Bangalore from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm on February 8, 1981 and 19 songs in Tamil, 16 songs
in Hindi in a day which is a notable achievement and a record.[3] He established a prolific
career. "There were days when I used to record 1520 songs, but only for Anand-Milind.
And I would take the last flight back to Chennai."[29][30] In the 1970s, he also worked with
M. S. Viswanathan in Tamil movies for actors such as M. G. Ramachandran, Sivaji
Ganesan and Gemini Ganesan. He recorded duets with P. Susheela, S. Janaki, Vani
Jayaram and L. R. Eswari. Balasubrahmanyam's association with Ilaiyaraaja began in the
late 1970s when the latter made his cinematic debut.

International recognition: 1980s

Balasubrahmanyam pictured in 1985

Balasubrahmanyam came to international prominence with 1980's Shankarabharanam.
The film is considered to be one of the best films ever to emerge from Telugu film
industry.[31][32] Directed by K. Vishwanath, the film's soundtrack was composed by KV
Mahadevan and led to an increase in usage of Carnatic music in Telugu cinema. Not a
classically trained singer, he used a 'film music' aesthetic in recording the songs.[33]
Balasubrahmanyam received his first National Film Award for Best Male Playback
Singer for his work. His first work in Hindi films was the following year, in Ek Duje Ke
Liye (1981), for which he received another National Film Award for Best Male Playback
Singer.[6]
Balasubrahmanyam began to record more songs in Tamil especially for Ilaiyaraaja with
Janaki, the trio considered to be highly successful in the Tamil film industry from the late
1970s and throughout the 1980s in Telugu films based on classical music like Saagara
Sangamam (1983), for which both Ilaiayaraaja and S.P.B won National Film Awards,
Swathi Muthyam (1986) and Rudraveena (1988) which again won National Awards for
Ilaiyaraaja and Balasubrahmanyam. [34]
In 1989, Balasubrahmanyam was the playback singer for Bollywood actor Salman Khan
in the blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya.[35] The soundtrack for the film was very successful
and he won a Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the song Dil Deewana.
For much of the next decade, Balasubrahmanyam continued as the 'romantic singing
voice' on the soundtracks of Khan's films.[36] Notable among these was Hum Aapke Hain
Koun..! which became the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time[37]
Balasubrahmanyam's duet with Lata Mangeshkar, "Didi Tera Devar Deewana", was so
popular that Mangeshkar was awarded a Filmfare Special Award. This solidified
Balasubrahmanyam as one of the biggest playback singers in India.[38]

1990s
In the 1990s he worked with composers like Vidyasagar, M. M. Keeravani, S. A.
Rajkumar, but his association with A.R.Rahman turned out be a major success.

Balasubramanyam's association with Hamsalekha began after the latter's successful

venture Premaloka in Kannada. Balasubramanyam sung the most number of songs for
Hamsalekha in Kannada. He received his 4th National Film Award for Best Male
Playback Singer for the song "Umandu Ghumandu" from the Kannada film Ganayogi
Panchakshari Gavayi (1995), which was a Hindustani classical music based composition
by Hamsalekha.[34]
Balasubrahmanyam recorded three songs for A. R. Rahman in his debut film Roja. He
had a long time association with Rahman right from Roja, the latter's debut film. Other
popular songs include "July Maadham" from Pudhiya Mugam, which also marked the
debut of singer Anupama, "Mannoothu Manthayilae" from Kizhakku Cheemayile which
was a folk number and he almost sang all songs in the musical love story Duet and
"Thanga Thaamarai" from Minsara Kanavu which fetched his sixth and latest of his
National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer till date.

2000s-present
In 2013, Balasubrahmanyam recorded the popular title song for Chennai Express
"Nikal Na Jaaye Chennai Express", singing for the lead actor Shahrukh Khan, under the
music direction of Vishal-Shekhar. He returned to Bollywood music after being away
from it for 15 years.[39] New generation's versatile singer K.K picked him as his one of the
favourite singer.

Voice actor
Balasubrahmanyam accidentally became a dubbing artist with Kamal Hassan's film
Manmadha Leela, the dubbed Telugu version of Manmadha Leelai.[40] He has also
provided voice-overs for various artists, including Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Salman
Khan, K. Bhagyaraj, Mohan, Anil Kapoor, Girish Karnad, Gemini Ganesan, Arjun Sarja,
Nagesh, Karthik and Raghuvaran in various languages. He was assigned as the default
dubbing artist for Kamal Hassan in Telugu dubbed versions of Tamil films and vice versa.
For the Telugu version of Dasavathaaram he gave voice to seven characters (including
the female character) out of ten characters played by Kamal Hassan.[41] He was awarded
Nandi Award for Best Male Dubbing Artist for the films Annamayya and Sri Sai Mahima.
[42]
He dubbed for Nandamuri Balakrishna for the Tamil version of the movie Sri Rama
Rajyam in 2012.[43]

Filmography
Main article: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam filmography

Awards and nominations

See also: List of awards and nominations received by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

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The correct Spelling of S. P. Balasubrahmanyam is here.
Balasubrahmanyam made his debut in film music as a singer in Dec 15,1966 with Sri Sri
Sri Maryada Ramanna, a film scored by his mentor Kodandapani. He has sung more than
39,000 songs[2]since in more than 5 different Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil,
Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam. However, he has sung most of his songs in Telugu. He
holds the Guinness record for having sung the most number of song recordings by any
singer (the record for a female singer is held by Lata Mangeshkar).
A gifted singer, he is highly regarded for his incredible vocal range, deep rich voice, and
mastery of style, technique and control. These qualities allowed him expression across
various genres of Indian music, and he has been highly sought after by many of Indias
film music composers. His approach to singing is methodical; he perseveres to
understand the full meaning of the songs that he sings (many of which are very poetic)
and the settings in which these songs are couched in order to most effectively match their
requirements with his vocal delivery.S.P.B., though was very young, started singing for
many different language films. As he became very busy, at times he used to sing even 17
songs in 12 hours at the recording theatre. He has also sung in Sanskrit and some regard
his pronunciation of this language to be very good.
He has performed both the popular and classical music of India. For example, the songs
he performed in the films Sankarabharanam, Sagara Sangamam, Rudra Veena were based
on Carnatic classical music, and the song Umandu Ghumandu in the movie Ganayogi
Panchakshari Gavayi was based on Hindustani classical music.
SPB virtually monopolised playback singing for more than 30 years in the Telugu,
Kannada and Tamil cinema.His contemporary Dr.K.J.Yesudas monopolised the
Malayalam music industry. SPB sang only a few songs in Malayalam. Although Yesudas
voice was regarded more suitable for sad songs in Tamil, SPB also sang some of the
evergreen sad songs in Tamil such as Naanum unthen uravai,Nenjukkulleand Kuyile
pudichu. He hosts a popular TV show called Paadutha Theeyaga on E-TV, Paadalani
Undi on MAA-TV ,Ede Thumbi Haaduvenu on E-TV Kannada and Ennodo Paattu
Paadungal on JAYA-TV.
He can undoubtedly be rated in the top ten singers of all times.

Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, (Tamil: . . ,

Telugu:

) is a prolific Indian singer and actor. He is

also known as S. P. B. and Balu in the media.
Early life and background
Balasubrahmanyam was born into an Orthodox Telugu Brahmin family in
Konetammapeta near Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. He is the second son in a family of three
sons and five daughters. His father S. P. Sambamurthy was a well-known exponent of
Harikatha and his sister S.P. Sailaja is a former actress-singer in Tollywood, married to
Subhalekha Sudhakar. He has a daughter, Pallavi and son, S. P. B. Charan.
Career
Balusubrahmanyam took to singing as a hobby during his childhood. He developed an
interest in music very early in his life, and had studied notations and learnt to play
instruments such as harmonium and flute on his own while listening to his father. His
father wanted Balu to become an engineer; this brought him to Ananthpur, where he
enrolled for the Engineering course in JNTU. Later he discontinued the course due to
typhoid and then joined AMIE. Meanwhile, he also pursued his hobby and won awards at
many singing competitions. There he was identified as a good singer in annual college
programmes where he use to sing. Some friends recommended that he sing in Madras and
provided him with referrals.
In 1964, a Madras-based Telugu Cultural Organisation, organized a music competition
for amateur singers. Balu won the first prize, and that proved a turning point in his life.
Music director SP Kodandapani took him under his wing. Offers then poured in from
Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam movies.
Band
Before he became a full fledged cinema singer, SPB was the leader of a light music
troupe that comprising
* Anirutta, who was working in Corporation and was the harmonium artist
* Ilaiyaraaja who joined the group as Guitarist and then moved over to harmonium
after Anirutta became busy in his regular job
* Baskar, Ilaiyaraaja's brother who was in charge of Percussion
* Gangai Amaran another brother of Ilaiyaraaja who was the Guitarist after Ilaiyaraaja
moved over to Harmonium

Playback Singing
Balasubrahmanyam made his debut in film music as a singer in Dec 15,1966 with Sri Sri
Sri Maryada Ramanna, a film scored by his mentor Kodandapani. He has sung more than
40,000 songssince in more than 5 different Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil,
Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam. He holds the world record in the Guinness for having
sung the most number of song recordings by any singer (the record for a female singer is
held by Lata Mangeshkar).
A gifted singer, he is highly regarded for his incredible vocal range, deep rich voice, and
mastery of style, technique and control. These qualities allowed him expression across
various genres of Indian music, and he has been highly sought after by many of India's
film music composers. His approach to singing is methodical; he perseveres to
understand the full meaning of the songs that he sings (many of which are very poetic)
and the settings in which these songs are couched in order to most effectively match their
requirements with his vocal delivery.S.P.B., though was very young, started singing for
many different language films. As he became very busy, at times he used to sing even 17
songs in 12 hours at the recording theatre. He has also sung in Sanskrit and some regard
his pronunciation of this language to be very good. Most of the introduction songs in
Chiranjeevi and Rajinkanth films are sung by SPB only. Most people feel that
Balasubrahmanyam's voice most suits Kamal Haasan. Sometimes, people cannot even
figure out if it is Kamal singing or Balu singing or even Kamal talking or Balu talking.
He has performed both the popular and classical music of India. For example, the songs
he performed in the films Sankarabharanam, Sagara Sangamam, Rudra Veena were based
on Carnatic classical music, and the song Umandu Ghumandu in the movie Ganayogi
Panchakshari Gavayi was based on Hindustani classical music.
He virtually monopolised playback singing for more than 30 years in the Telugu,
Kannada and Tamil cinema. His contemporary Dr. K.J.Yesudas monopolised the
Malayalam music industry. SPB sang only a few songs in Malayalam. Although Yesudas'
voice was regarded more suitable for sad songs in Tamil, SPB has also sung some
evergreen sad songs in Tamil such as 'Naanum unthen uravai','Nenjukkulle' and
'Kuyilappudichu'. He hosts a popular TV show in Telugu called Paadutha Theeyaga on ETV, Paadalani Undi on MAA-TV , and a kannada show Ede Thumbi Haaduvenu on 'ETV Kannada' and Tamil show 'Ennodu Paattu Paadungal' on JAYA-TV.
Achievements
* Has recorded over 38,000 plus songs in a span of 40 years, which include film songs
and devotional numbers recorded by various recording companies of the country. It's a
world record which will be soon entering into the Guinness Book of World Records
* Has recorded 21 songs in Kannada for the composer Upendra Kumar in Bangalore
from 9.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m. on February 8, 1981 which is a record.
* Has recorded 19 songs in Tamil in a day, and 16 songs in Hindi in a day, which is a
notable achievement.
He has also acted in several movies in full-fledged protagonist roles or in cameo roles.

And is also an anchor for a Telugu TV programme by name "Paaduthaa Theeyaga".

Recently, on Maa TV, he hosted a children's singing show called 'Paadalanivundhi', which
gained a lot of popularity and brought talent from all over Andhra Pradesh.
He is now preparing for another TV show in Telugu named 'Sunaadha Vinodhini' on
Bhakthi Channel, where he will be exploring more into the devotional side.
Dubbing career
Subrahmanyam has also given voice for various artists like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan,
Salman Khan, Bhagyaraj, Mohan, Girish Karnad, Gemini Ganesh, Nagesh, Karthik,
Raghuvaran, Vinodkumar etc. anand babu. SP.Balasubramanyam was the default dubbing
artist for Kamal Hasan's Telugu movies, dubbed from Tamil.
Trivia
* In the early 90's S.P.B. did many bollywood assignmenst in (hindi). composers like
Ram-Laxman & Nadeem-Shravan regarded his voice perfect for Salman Khan.
* Besides playback singing, Balasubramaniam is also the chairman of Kodandapani
Audio Labs, Chennai.
* In the 80's & early 90's S.P.B. worked with composers like Laxmikant Pyarelal,
R.D.Burman, Bappi Lahiri, Anand Milind, Nadeem Shravan, Raam Laxman, A.R.
Rehman, Anu Malik, Jatin Lalit, M.M.Keervani (Kreem), Naushad, O.P.Nayyar,Nikhil
Vinay, Ravindra jain & many others.
* He sang for Salman Khan, Kamal Hassan, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff & also for
Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna, Sanjay Dutt & Vinod Khanna & Akshaye Kumar.
* He sang for more than 170+ films & 1 Private Album in Hindi.
* He is the only singer to sing in a gond language( a language spoken by tribal of
jagdalpur(MP)

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Biography
Name: S.P.Balasubramanyam
Birth Name: Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam
Nick Name: Balu
Date of Birth: 4thJune, 1946
Married to: Savitri
Birth Place: Konetammapeta, Madras Presidency, India
Family Background

Fathers Name: S. P. Sambamurthy

Brothers Name: S.P.Sailaja
Daughters Name: Pallavi
Sons Name: S.P.B. Charan (Singer and Film producer)

Playback singer Background

Debut Film: Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna
Famous Movies: Kadalppalam, Aval Oru Thodar Kathai, Shankarabharanam, Ek Duje Ke
Liye (Hindi), Roja, Ganayogi Panchakshari Gavvayi

As an actor career

Manathil Uruthi Vendum, Thiruda Thiruda, Keladi Kanmani, Sigaram, Maya, Avvai
Shanmugi, Rakshagan, Nandhini, Kaadalan,Parvathlu Paanakalu, Pelli
Varahandi, Kalyanathasava, Malle Pandiri, Raja Hamsa, Merupu Kalalau, Prema Maha
Yedabidargi, Maya Bazaar
Worked as: Singer, Actor, Music director, Film producer

Awards
Balu won National Film Awards for playback singer and also honored by three Filmfare
Awards and won other awards from the State Goverenments of Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Achievements
S.P.Balasubramanyam made his debut as a playback singer on 15 December 1966 with
Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna. In 1969 he recorded his first non- Telugu film Shanthi
Niaiyam. Subramanyams song Aayiram Nilavae Vaa in the Tamil film Aadimai Pen
became very famous. In 1980, he received his first National Film award for Best Male
Playback Singer for the Shankarabharanam.
In 1981, Subramanyam made his first break in Bollywood with film Ek Duje Ke Liye and
won the National Film award for Best Male Playback Singer again. In 1990, he started
work with composers like Vidyasagar, M.M.Keeravani, and S.A.Rajkumar but he famous
with A. R.Rahman. Balu sang two songs for Rahman in the movie Roja.
Apart from singing and acting career, Balu has composed music for famous movie like
Seethamma Pelli, Bangaru Chilaka, Naach Mayuri, Ramanna
Shyamanna, Ksherasaagara, Devaralle Dane, Belliyappa Bangarappa. Balu also has
opened his production house Kodandapani Film Circuits (now Captain Cine creations)
and produced films like Mayuri, Subha Sankalpam, Bhamane Satya Bhamane.
S.P.Balasubramanyam has also made his career in television industry. He hosted many
music shows like Paadutha Theeyaga on E-TV, Paadalani Undi on MAA TV, a Kannada
show Ede Thumbi Haaduvenu on E-TV, Sunada Vinodini on TTD channel and Tamil
show on JAYA TV.
Balu is also known for as voice actor. He has given his voice for many artists like
Rajnikanth, K. Bhagyaraj, Mohan, Anil Kapoor, Kamal Hassan, Girish Karnad, Gemini
Ganesan, and Karthik. He received Best Dubbing Artist award in the film Annamyya.
S.P.Balasubramanyam is also a social worker. He owns a charitable trust S. P.
Sambamurthy Foundation which helps the poor and needy.