This was the first of three National Awards he received for singing in Telugu. He received his first National award for his seminal work in Shankarabharanam.
In a career spanning over 50 years, SPB sang over 40,000 songs in several languages, including Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi, among others. Over the next five decades, SPB, as he is fondly referred to, grew in stature and made an indelible mark across various languages. He won the first prize in a music competition for the budding singers organised by the Madras-based Telugu Cultural Organisation and also won the best singer award in a competition judged by his father SP Kodandapani and mentor Ghantasala Venkateswararao. The same year saw the singer singing his breakout song, Aayiram Nilave Vaa for MGR’s Adimaipenn.īalasubrahmanyam was drawn to music at an early age but did not train in classical singing, though he evinced interest in learning musical instruments. SPB was introduced in Tamil through legendary composer MS Viswanathan’s song, Iyarkaiyenum Idhayakani in the Gemini Ganesan film, Shanthi Nilayam (1969). He made his Kannada debut the same year for composer M Ranga Rao in Nakkare Ada Swarga. A six-time National Award winner, he made his singing debut with the Telugu film, Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna in 1966. As prayers and wishes poured in, he released a video assuring everyone that he was getting well fast.Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam was born in Konetammapeta village, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, on June 4, 1946. The singer was admitted to MGM Healthcare on Aug 5 after he experienced chest congestion. SPB also did a few cameos, but is best remembered for playing a middle-aged single father in the musical Keladi Kanmani (1990). He won another for his first Hindi song in the 1981 love story Ek Duuje Ke Liye starring Tamil actor Kamal Haasan. It also earned him a National Award, the first of many. Ramachandran.Īlthough untrained in classical music, SPB's earliest hits were in movies like Shankarabharanam (1980) that celebrated Carnatic music. He broke into the Tamil film industry a few years later with a knockout song in Adimai Penn, which was headlined by megastar and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. His first playback song in a film was in Telugu, his mother tongue, in 1967. Balasubrahmanyam with then Indian President Pradibha Singh Patil during the Padma Awards presentation ceremony at the Presidential House in New Delhi on March 24, 2011.
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