His entry into playback singing was an accident which played out both ways for him in the industry – people admired his pitch-perfect rendition, but then he would also not remember the impulsive improvisations (Sangathis) if the composer told him to re-sing it the next time since he didn’t know to mark notations. When the movie Adimai Penn released, it was not just another success for MG Ramachandran, it also saw the birth of one of the greatest singers of all times – SP Balasubrahmanyam.īorn on Jin the erstwhile Madras Presidency, he was a singer with a powerful voice, and had no formal training in any kind of music. Circa 1969 was a watershed moment for the playback singing industry in Tamil filmdom. It was in 1966 that he made his debut with the Telugu movie Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna. His prowess in singing earned him numerous accolades including a Padma Bhushan from the President of India and a Guinness record for recording the highest number of songs in a day. In a career spanning over 50 years, he has sung around 40,000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. An accomplished playback singer, actor and voice-artist, SPB was multi-talented.
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