SP Balasubhramanium brings your weekend alive

Music lovers in the city are all set for a treat as the veteran playback sing, SP Balasubhramanium is all set to take the stage in Bangalore tonight and entertain the audiences here.
SPB, who has lent voices to many leading actors in the film industry across various industries, besides his Motherland - India, is one of the leading figures of Indian Cinema, more particularly, Southern Indian Movie Industry.He had held sway for years and continues to do so, as a top-notch playback singer, in films in many Indian languages like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam the ‘lingua franca’, Hindi, Tulu, Oriya, Assamese, Badaga, Sanskrit, English, Konkini, Bengali, Marathi and Punjabi.
Balu has sung over a staggering 35,000 songs in films, private albums, TV Serials, which is a fete in itself. He is one of the most sought after “play back” singer of Southern Indian Cinema.
Balu was born on June 4th, 1946 in Konetampet, in present day Tamil Nadu, then in Andhra Pradesh. His father, Sri. S.P. Sambamurthy was a fine musician and an excellent exponent of “Harikatha” (a fine art form of entertainment combining music and story telling). Balu took to singing early. Blessed with a rich melodious voice, a fine range and timbre drenched with honeydew the sprightly lad sang in public while pursuing his engineering diploma.