Viswanathan for the film Hotel Ramba, which was never released. He recorded his first Tamil song 'Athaanodu Ippadi Irundhu Eththanai Naalaachu', a duet with L. 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. Yesudas and his wifeД«alasubrahmanyam made his debut as a playback singer on 15 December 1966 with Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna, a Telugu film scored by his mentor, S. SP Balasubrahmanyam and his wife being felicitated by K. Srinivas, who used to write and give him multi-lingual verses in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, English and Urdu. It was rendered by veteran playback singer P. Often visiting music composers seeking opportunities, his first audition song was 'Nilave Ennidam Nerungadhe'. He was selected as the best singer in a singing competition which was judged by S. 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). In 1964, he won the first prize in a music competition for amateur singers organized by the Madras-based Telugu Cultural Organization. Д«alasubrahmanyam continued to pursue music during his engineering studies and won awards at singing competitions. He discontinued his studies early due to typhoid and joined as an associate member the Institution of Engineers, Chennai. He enrolled at the JNTU College of Engineering Anantapur with the intention of becoming an engineer. Д«alasubrahmanyam developed an interest in music at an early age, studied musical notations and learned music. Charan is also a popular South Indian singer, actor and producer. He had two brothers and five sisters, including singer S. His mother was Sakunthalamma, who died on 4 February 2019. Sambamurthy, was a Harikatha artist who also acted in plays. Д«alasubrahmanyam was born in Nellore, Madras Presidency (present-day Andhra Pradesh) into a Telugu Brahmin family. Balasubrahmanyam died in Chennai after being hospitalized for over a month for complications due to COVID-19. He was a recipient of the Padma Shri (2001), Padma Bhushan (2011) and Padma Vibhushan ( Posthumously) (2021) from the Government of India.He also won Harivarasanam Award by Govt of Kerala. In 2016, he was honoured with the Silver Peacock Medal as Indian Film Personality of the Year. In 2012, he received the state NTR National Award for his contributions to Indian cinema. In addition, he recorded 19 songs in Tamil and 16 songs in Hindi in a day, which has also been called a record. He recorded 21 songs in Kannada for the composer Upendra Kumar in Bengaluru from 9 am to 9 pm on 8 February 1981. According to some sources, he held the Guinness World Record for recording the highest number of songs by a singer with over 40,000 songs. In addition, he won the Filmfare Award and six Filmfare Awards South. Д«alasubrahmanyam has won six National Film Awards for Best Male Playback Singer for his works in four different languages вЂ“ 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. He is widely considered one of the greatest Indian singers of all time. Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (4 June 1946 вЂ“ 25 September 2020), also known as SPB or Balu, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, music director, actor and film producer who worked predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam films.

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