He discontinued his studies early due to typhoid and joined as an associate member of the Institution of Engineers, Chennai. īalasubrahmanyam continued to pursue music during his engineering studies and won awards at singing competitions. He often said that, at the time his only dream was to fulfil his father's ambition and become an engineer and get a government job. He enrolled at the JNTU College of Engineering Anantapur with the intention of becoming an engineer. īalasubrahmanyam 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. Early life and background īalasubrahmanyam was born in Nellore, in 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.
In 2016, he was honoured with the Indian Film Personality of the Year award at the 47th International Film Festival of India. In 2015, he received the Harivarasanam Award from the Government of Kerala. 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.
On 8 February 1981, he created a record by recording 27 songs in Kannada from 9 am to 9 pm. 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. In addition, he won six Filmfare Awards South and a Filmfare Award. In career spanning over five decades, 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.
Balasubrahmanyam debuted as a playback singer on 15 December 1966 with the Telugu film Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna scored by his mentor, S. He predominently worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi films and sang in a total of 16 languages. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Indian singers of all time. Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (4 June 1946 – 25 September 2020), also referred to as SPB or SP Balu or Balu, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer.
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