He felt that Balasubrahmanyam, the “Madrasi” singer he were asked to work with, could not accurately pronounce words from Anand Bakshi’s Hindustani lyrics. During the music-making process of filmmaker K Balachander’s Rati Agnihotri and Kamal Hassan starrer Ek Duje Ke Liye (1981) - the Hindi remake of the director’s Telugu film Maro Charitra - composer Raamlaxman was displeased. And that’s where the magic nestled itself.Īnd to think that his voice was rejected once upon a time. In all of them, that tender, velvety voice triumphantly stood out as one of a kind - it was unpretentious and yet grand. That he held the Guinness Book of World Record for singing the highest number of songs ever (40,000 songs) was just another feather in his cap. From MG Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan to Kamal Hassan, Mohan and a slew of actors in the present day, Balasubrahmanyam’s voice was a fixture for all of them. He found success in the Hindi film industry and a lot more than just success in South Indian film music - a cult status as an artiste who received genuine affection from people. Widely held as one of the finest male playback singers with a 50-year-long career, SP Balasubrahmanyam, transcended language barriers by singing in 16 of them including Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil among others. SP Balasubrahmanyam was also a well-known dubbing artiste.
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