The story of how SPB finally sang for his old friend, the Maestro Ilaiyaraja, plays out almost like a movie. He was as much at ease singing compositions with a classical base, like Vedham Anuvilum Oru Naadham, as he was singing rock-and-roll or western-influenced compositions like Rum Bambam by Ilaiyaraja or Kadhalikkum Pennin Kayyil, by A R Rahman. SPB’s versatile voice and his enthusiasm to try new things helped him cross all barriers – of genres, language, or age.
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His next song Ayiram Nilave Vaa, from the movie Adimai Penn sung for the legendary actor M G Ramachandran (MGR), was SPB’s first big hit in Tamil. Eswari, The film was unfortunately was never released. His first Tamil song, Athaanodu Ippadi Irundhu Ethanai Naal Aachu, recorded with L.R. His beautiful rendering of this beautiful melody at auditions helped him get a break in a Telugu movie and he sang his very first song “Emi Ee Vinta Moham” alongside established singers like P Susheela and P.B Sreenivas. Sreenivas, was his ticket to the world of playback singing.
The soothing melody Nilave Ennidam Nerungadhey, originally sung by P.B. He started performing on stage and slowly put together a group of talented artists who toured South India. Luckily for the world, music followed him even in college and he soon dropped out. Hailing from a middle-class family, the need to support his family meant that music was relegated to a hobby and SPB enrolled in an engineering college. Despite having no formal training in music, SPB was keen to practise and perform from a young age. Sambamurthy was a popular Harikatha exponent who also dabbled in theatre. S P Balasubrahmanyam or SPB as he was fondly known was born on 4 th June 1946 in Nellore, present-day Andhra Pradesh to a musically-inclined family. Sripathi Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam, the young singer with a melodious voice, Ilaiyaraja on the harmonium, and Gangai Amaren on the guitar, would together bring about a musical revolution of sorts in Tamil movies! The people in the audience did not know it then, but they were witnessing legends-in-the-making. The deafening applause was a sign of things to come. As the song reached a crescendo, the young man’s fast notes matched pace with the deft fingers of the harmonium-player and the guitarist. The audience, used to only Tamil numbers at concerts, was delighted to hear popular Hindi songs being belted out flawlessly by the music troupe. The jovial young man took the mic with a smile and sang breezily as his friends on the harmonium and guitar wove in and out of a popular Hindi song.
Seated Left: SP Balasubramanyam, Right: IlaiyarajaĮzhunthu Vaa Baalu, the harmonium player called out to his friend, who was catching up on the cricket score on his radio backstage.
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