SPBвЂ™s first break into cinema music came when he made his debut as a playback singer in a Telugu film in 1966. Impressed by SPBвЂ™s talents as a singer, she introduced him to a leading Telugu music director. Lady Luck smiled on Balasubrahmanyam when he took part in a music competition. He directed many blockbusters and won a number of national awards. Bharatiraja later became very famous as a film director. In fact, Ilaiyaraja was introduced to Balasubrahmanyam by Bharatiraja, a small-time film director. Ilaiyaraja then an unknown harmonium player accompanied SPB in his concerts. In the early days he used to sing in towns and villages of South India. SPB associated with Ilaiyaraja even before the latter entered the cine field. His younger brother Gangai Ammaran played the guitar. Ilaiyaraja played the harmonium while his brother Bhaskar played the percussion. At the same time he functioned as the leader of a light music troupe which included Ilaiyaraja who later became one of the leading cine music directors in India. In 1964 he won the first prize in a music competition for amateur singers conducted by the Madras-based Telugu Cultural Organization. He soon realised that he was more a musician than an engineer. However, he later completed his studies and became an associate member of the Institution of Engineers in Chennai.Дespite being a qualified engineer, he continued to pursue his music. Although he joined the JNTU College of Engineering in Anantapur, he had to discontinue his studies due to illness. Sailaja was one-time a popular South Indian singer.Д«alasubrahmanyam learned music at an early age. Sambamurthy, was a Harikatha artiste who used to sing about the glory of gods and goddesses. He was born in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India to a Brahmin family on June 4, 1946. He came to that position by the dint of hard work and dedication. SPB was the undisputed king of playback male singers. His melodious voice reverberated through the length and breadth of India and beyond. He was a rare person who wanted to bring about a paradigm shift to lacklustre Indian cinema music, especially, the South Indian cinema music. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he was not a career playback singer. Balasubrahmanyam is a multi-dimensional personality whose interests embraced aspects of life ranging from music to poetry and cinema to literature. The untimely death of Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, popularly known as SPB, has created a musical vacuum difficult to fill,вЂќ said Nagalingam Kumarakuruparan, an Indologist based in Hyderabad, India in an e-mail interview with the Sunday Observer. вЂњThe music world has lost one of its favourite playback singers who entertained millions of fans with his mellifluous voice.

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