S. P. Balasubramaniam ( BALU )

      
S. P. Balasubramaniam well known in the field of film music over three decades, was born in 1949, June 4th at Konaattaampettai Andhra Pradesh. While doing his ITI in Engineering he used to sing in Orchestra held at neighbouring Nellore. On one occasion P Kodandapani, Music Director of Telugu was impressed by SP’s singing provided him opportunity to sing for the first time in Telugu film `Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramann’ which was a turning point in his life and later offers poured in from all the languages.Balu’s biggest ever break came with the MGR-starrer `Adimai Penn’ which had music by K V Mahadevan. Music Director M Ranga Rao by providing an opportunity to sing in his film Nakkare Aade Swarga introduced him to Kannada film industry

S.P.B., though was very young, started singing for many different language films. As he became very busy, at times he used to sing even 17 songs in 12 hours at the recording theatre.

Balu  has sung more than 30,000 songs including telugu , tamil, hindi, malyalam ,kannada , tullu. Thus he holds the Guiness Record for the most number of recordings by any single male singer. (the female record is held by Lata Mangeshkar).He has entered the Guiness Book of Records for recording 19 songs at a stretch in a day without any trace of exhaustion. And much before Shankar Mahadevan. he rendered a song in one breath in the Tamil film `Keladi Kanmani’.

Awards :
Song	Movie
Filmfare Award - 1989	Dil Deewana - Maine Pyaar Kiya
National Award - 1989	"Sankaraabaranam"
National Award - 1979	"Ekh Dhuje Keliae"
National Award - 1981	"Saagara Sangamam"
National Award - 1983	"Rudhra Veenaa"
National Award - 1995	"Gana Saagara Ganayogi Kawai"
National Award - 1996	"Minsara Kanavu"