September 25, 2020 3:00:05 pm
SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away on September 25, 2020 (Source: ispbofficial / Instagram)
Legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away on September 25, 2020, after more than a month-long battle with COVID-19. Fans of the Red The singer is well aware of his brilliant performances and contributions to Indian music. Instead, let’s look at some other interesting facts about the deceased musician.
Balasubrahmanyam was an engineering student
Before starting his music career, Balasubrahmanyam had enrolled at JNTU College of Engineering Anantapur because he wanted to become an engineer. But he had to interrupt his studies due to typhoid fever. Meanwhile, he also participated in singing competitions and won numerous awards.
Balasubrahmanyam’s first audition song
As a young singer, Balasubrahmanyam visited many music composers in search of opportunities. His first audition song was Nilave Ennidam Nerungadhe, sung by PB Srinivas. The singer made his debut as a playback singer on December 15, 1966, with Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna, a movie in Telugu.
Guinness World Record
the Chennai express The singer set a Guinness record for singing the most songs, over 40,000, in his lifetime, averaging 930 songs per year or nearly three songs per day.
21 songs in 12 hours
The music legend also holds a record of singing 21 songs in 12 hours for Kannada composer Upendra Kumar. He also reportedly recorded 19 Tamil songs in one day and 16 songs in Hindi in one day.
An accidental dubbing artist
Balasubrahmanyam became a dubbing artist with K Balachander’s film Manmadha Leela, the dubbed version of the film in Telugu Manmatha Leelai. In the film, she provided the voiceover for Kamal Haasan. He also did voiceovers for other actors, including Anil Kapoor, Girish Karnad, Rajnikanth, Nagesh, and others. For the Telugu version of Dasavathaaram, provided the voice-overs for seven of the 10 characters played by Kamal Haasan,
Winner of six national awards
the Pehla Pehla Pyar Hai The singer won six national awards for his songs in more than four different Indian languages. He was also honored with Padma Shri (2001) and Padma Bhushan (2011).
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