S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Indian playback singer (1946–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam[lower-alpha 1] (4 June 1946 – 25 September 2020), shortened as SPB, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer.[7][8] He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Indian singers of all time.[9][10][11] He predominantly worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi films and sang in a total of 16 languages.[12]
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Birth name | Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam |
Also known as | Gaana Gandharva, Paadum Nila[1] |
Born | (1946-06-04)4 June 1946 Nellore, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Andhra Pradesh, India)[2][3][4][5][6] |
Died | 25 September 2020(2020-09-25) (aged 74) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Genres | Playback[5] |
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Years active | 1966–2020 |
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Balasubrahmanyam made his debut as a playback singer on 15 December 1966 with the Telugu film Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna scored by his mentor, S. P. Kodandapani.[8][13] He has won six National Film Awards for Best Male Playback Singer for his works in four different languages – Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi; 25 Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards for his work in Telugu cinema; and numerous other state awards from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu governments.[14][15] In addition, he won four Filmfare Awards South and a Filmfare Award.[16] According to some sources, he held the Guinness World Record for recording the highest number of songs by a singer with over 50,000 songs in 16 languages.[12][17][8][18] On 8 February 1981, he recorded 27 songs in Kannada from 9 am to 9 pm. In addition, he recorded 19 songs in Tamil, 16 songs in Hindi in a day, which has also been called a record.[8]
In 2012, Balasubrahmanyam received the NTR National Award from Government of Andhra Pradesh.[19] In 2015, he received the Harivarasanam Award from the Government of Kerala.[20] In 2016, he was honoured with the Indian Film Personality of the Year award at the 47th International Film Festival of India.[21][22][23] He was a recipient of the Padma Shri (2001), Padma Bhushan (2011), and Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) (2021) from the Government of India.[24][25] On 25 September 2020, he died in Chennai after being hospitalized for over a month for complications due to COVID-19.[26]