SP Balasubrahmanyam passes away: 15 interesting facts of singer that every fan must know

Singer SP Balasubrahmanyam, who passed away on Friday, September 25, has a special place in everyone's heart because of his melodious voice. singer, who dabbled different hats, from production to acting, me his singing debut in 1966 with song Emiyee Vinta Moham from film, Sri Sri Sri Marya Ramanna. As we remembere veteran, here are fifteen interesting facts about singer. 

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15 interesting facts about SP Balasubrahmanyam 

• SP Balasubrahmanyam was born in Konetampet, Tiruvallur district, to SP Sambamurthy and Sakunthalamma. He has two brors and five sisters. 
• SP Balasubrahmanyam's far was an actor, who performed in various plays. He was also a ted Harikatha exponent. Meanwhile, singer's mor was a housewife. 
• SP Balasubrahmanyam started learning music from an early . SP Balasubrahmanyam h to drop out of his engineering course at Jawaharlal Nehru Techlogical University Anantapuramu, Anantapur, due to typhoid. 
• Singer and actor SP Sailaja is SP Balasubrahmanyam's sister. Interestingly, legendary singer's son SP Charan is also a singer, and actor, who has worked with mavericks like M M Keeravaani, AR Rahman, among ors. 

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• SP Balasubrahmanyam has crooned more than 40,000 songs in langus like Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kanna, Malayalam, and ors. 
• SP Balasubrahmanyam has worked with an array of music composers, from young to old. He has worked with composers like MS Viswanathan to AR Rahman. 
• Besides singing, SP Balasubrahmanyam has acted in close to 48 Tamil, Telugu, and Kanna movies. SP Balasubrahmanyam's last film as an actor was Sriram ittya's Devas (2018). 
• SP Balasubrahmanyam has briefly worked as a dubbing artist. He has dubbed for Kamal Haasan in nali's (2000) Telugu version. 

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• According to News Minute's report, SP Balasubrahmanyam has recorded 21 Kanna songs for music composer Upendra Kumar in 12 hours. 
• SP Balasubrahmanyam has six National Awards to his name. Besides which, he has won Tamil Nu State Award and Karnataka State Award, among ors. 
• SP Balasubrahmanyam is also a recipient of Pma Shri (2001) and Pma Bhushan (2011). 
• SP Balasubrahmanyam was houred with Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of Year at International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
• SP Balasubrahmanyam interestingly holds an horary doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru Techlogical University Anantapuramu, where he studied engineering. 
• SP Balasubrahmanyam has been voice for superstars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Nagarjuna, Chiranjeevi in a career spanning over 5 deces.

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