He was in the spotlight again with his second Indian National award this time for his Bollywood debut, Ek Duje Ke Liye. The first moment of glory arrived with an Indian National Award for Shankarabharanam.
“My father gave me a lot of freedom and never imposed anything.” When his singing projects interfered with studies, his father suggested: “Don’t ride on two horses. He recalled his first recording moment, when he sang, under the watchful eyes of a 45-member orchestra, the song Emiyee Vinta Moham. “My goal was to become an engineer.”įrom singing in local concerts in Nellore, where he grew up, a young Balasubrahmanyam entered Telugu cinema in 1966 with the film, Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna. His mother, Sakunthalamma, filled up the house with her melodious hymns and devotional songs.Ĭalling himself an accidental singer, he revealed that he had never been keen on music as a profession. Sambamurthy, was an exponent of Harikatha, the art of storytelling through music and poetry. SPB grew up in an environment soaked with music. “I was just singing and trying to accommodate myself to their style of dialogue delivery,” he said, adding that his foremost responsibility was towards his music directors and their songs. SPB did alter his voice for others, though, like Telugu actor NTR, and for some comedians. You just sing and see how I mould myself to your singing.” SPB also spoke about legendary Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan’s advice to him: “Don’t ever change or mould your voice for my performance. Eswari, but unfortunately the film never released.” SPB got his first break with MSV in 1969 with the film, Hotel Rambha. “Although he liked my singing, he found my Tamil utterly bad and asked me to meet him again,” he recalled. Two years before the fated meeting, SPB met composer M.S. I did not want to use another singer, since I felt that they might presume that I was not satisfied with your voice. “It was a wonderful moment when MGR told me: ‘After the rehearsals, you might have told your friends that you were singing for MGR. “That MGR waited for me for two months was itself a great thing,” said SPB. In an exclusive chat with tabloid! in Chennai, SPB took a trip down memory lane. SPB, as he is fondly known, is performing in the UAE on November 20. Balasubrahmanyam, who will be stepping into the golden jubilee year of his musical career on December 16. Six Indian National Awards and more than 38,000 tunes later, he won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. He shot to fame with a voice that was as suited to exuberant numbers such as Mere Jeevan Saathi, Pyar Kiye Jaa ( Ek Duje Ke Liye) and soulful tunes such as Nilave Vaa as it was to classical tunes such as Shankarabharana and Sur Sangamam. He became a playback singer for projects featuring stars such as MGR, Sivaji Ganesan and NTR, and then the next generation of actors including Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Chiranjeevi, Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. The young man not only recorded the song, but went on to sing many more songs in Tamil films and other South Indian languages, as well as in Bollywood. MGR could have replaced him with another singer, but he chose to wait for two months until the young man recovered. Once the rehearsals were done, the song could not be recorded because the singer fell sick. MGR offered the young singer an opportunity to sing in his next film, Adimai Penn. He was a young man from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, who was just making his way into Tamil cinema. Impressed by the voice, MGR inquired about the new singer on the block. Tamil star MGR listened to a young man in his early twenties rehearsing a Telugu song at AVM Productions studios, Chennai.
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