Who is sp balasubramaniam

She has lent her voice in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam films. Till date, she has crooned about songs. Talking about SP Balasubrahmanyam's career, the renowned singer crooned about 40, songs in 16 languages. He was born in Nellore into a Telugu family. We pray for his soul to rest in peace. And may God give his family members the strength to cope with his loss.

Nirali Kanabar. Updated Sep 25, IST. Legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away earlier today. The artiste par excellence is survived by his wife, son and daughter. Here's all you need to know about his family members.

He has a daughter, Pallavi and son, S. 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. 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. Some friends recommended him to sing in Madras and provided him with referrals. In , a Madras-based Telugu Cultural Organisation, organized a music competition for amateur singers. Balu won the first prize, and that proved to be 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. He has sung more than 40, songs since then in more than 5 different Indian languages, including Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam.

He holds the world record in the Guinness Book of World Records 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 express 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 make it most effective.

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 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 virtually monopolised playback singing for more than 30 years in the Telugu, Kannada and Tamil cinema industries. His contemporary Dr. Yesudas monopolised the Malayalam music industry. He was on my home cassette player, he was on television, he was on the radio, and his songs were part of the family dinner time. There was an SPB song for all occasions. His devotional songs were constantly played on the cassette player at the neighbourhood temple, Ganesha pandals and he was the top choice of those preparing for the pilgrimage to Sabarimala.

His voice was everywhere. And his television show Edhe Thumbi Haaduvenu I sing with all my heart did a solid job of taking music even closer to laymen. He came into our living room by appointment every Sunday for years via our old television set and enthralled us with his singing.

He also educated us about music and created generations of informed music-lovers.