Legendary Singer SPB 50 Years - A Grand World Tour Press Meet

Padmabhushan Dr S P Balasubrahmanyam - Profile

Sripathi Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam, popularly known as SPB/ Balu is a legendary playback singer in the Indian Film Industry. Having sung over 40,000 songs in 15 different Indian languages, SPB holds the record for the most number of songs rendered by a playback singer. He is highly regarded and loved by musicians and composers for his versatility and virtuosity.

SPB is also a noted actor, music director, dubbing artist /voice actor, film producer and television anchor. He has acted in more than 45 films in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages, composed music for more than 45 films, dubbed for various artists in over 100 films, and a television anchor for 7 shows ( a 19 year association with ETV telugu - Paadutaa Teeyagaa)

From a very young age, attributing to his rich melodious voice, SPB has sung for veteran Indian actors such as M G Ramachandran, N T Rama Rao, A Nageswara Rao, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan. SPB’s skill in adapting to each actor’s unique voice made him a sought-after singer over generations. His immaculate singing, discipline, and talent has won the loyalties of stalwart music directors such as M S Vishwanathan, K V Mahadevan, Illayaraja, R D Burman, Anand-Milind, to name a few. As a special mention, SPB has dubbed in notable Oscar nominated films such as Gandhi for Ben Kingsley, Slum dog Millionaire for Anil Kapoor.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

NATIONAL AWARDS

Year	Name of the movie	Language	Song	Music Director	Producer
1979	Sankarabharanam	Telugu	OmKaara	K.V.Mahadeva	Poornodaya Art
			Nadaanu	n	Creations
1981	Ek Duje Keliye	Hindi	Tere Mere	Laxmikant	L.V.Prasad
			Beech Mein	Pyarelal
1983	Sagara Sangamam	Telugu	Thakita	Illayaraja	Edida Nageswara
					Rao Poornodaya
					Films
1988	Rudra Veena	Telugu	Cheppaalani	Illayaraja	Nagendra Babu
			Undi
1995	Gana Yogi	Kannada	Ummandu	Hamsalekha
	Panchakshara		Gummandu
	Gavayi
1996	Minsara Kanavu	Tamil	Thanga	A.R.Rahman	A.V.M.Saravanan
			Thamarai
			Magalae

PRESTIGIOUS TITLES

Year	Award / Title	Presented by
1999	Honorary Doctorate from Potti Sreeramulu	State Governor Hon'ble Rangarajan
	Telugu University, Andhra Pradesh
2001	Padmashri, Government of India	President of India Hon'ble K.R.
		Narayanan
2009	Honorary Doctorate from Andhra University	AP State Governor Hon’ N D Tiwari
2009	Honorary Doctorate from Satyabama	Prof. Mool Chand Sharma, Vice
	University, Tamil Nadu	Chancellor, Central University of
		Haryana
2011	Honorary Doctorate, JNTU, Anantpur,	B Krishna Ganshi, Vice Chancellor,
	Andhra Pradesh	JNTU
2011	Padma Bhushan, Government of India	President of India Hon'ble Ms.
		Prathiba Patel
2016	Centenary Award  for Film Personality of the	Shri M Venkiah Naidu- Information &
	year - IFFI ( International Film Festival of	Broadcasting, HRD Minister
	India)

AWARDS & TITLES CONFERRED BY STATE GOVERNMENTS

•   Andhra Pradesh State Government Award– 25 Times

•   Tamil Nadu State Government Award – 3 Times

•   Karnataka State Government Award – 3 Times

•   Kalaimamani Title - Tamil Nadu Government in 1981

•   Best Character Actor Award for the film ‘ Pavithra Bandham’ - Govt. of Andhra Pradesh

•   Best Music Director for the film MAYURI - Govt. of Andhra Pradesh

•   Harivarasanam Award 2015 - Kerala Government

SPB’S SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

SPB has raised funds for many a charitable cause through countless stage shows. He believes that helping the lives of the weak and underprivileged cascades into an overall betterment of the society. Using this as a guiding principle, SPB’s fans started the ‘SPB Fans Charitable Foundation’. The foundation funds institutions that provide care and support for the weak, poor, destitute, orphaned, and marginalized sections of our society.

Owing to his immense popularity, SPB has been nominated by the Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s Government for the “Swacch Bharat” mission.This mission compliments SPB’s personal belief in creating a harmonious environment and hence he is an active crusader for this movement. He regularly participates in various activities along with the Government in his hometown Nellore, Andhra Pradesh.

SPB has completed 50 years in the Indian Film Industry on December 15, 2016. To celebrate this musical sojourn, Capital Film Works ( CFW) run by S. P. Charan is organising a musical Grand World tour SPB 50 in various countries. SPB 50 is a spectacular tribute by leading playback singers and actors singing/ performing ONLY SPB’s songs. Singers such as K S Chitra, S P Sailaja, Karthik, Vijay Prakash, Haricharan, SPB Charan, and Actors such as Radhika Sarath kumar, Sarath Kumar, Meena, Nirosha, Ramki, and Priyamani have been a part of SPB 50 so far.

SPB 50 Grand World tour shows have been extremely successful attracting an audience of over 50,000 people, and having performed at highly reputed venues such as the Kremlin Palace auditorium, Moscow (Dr SPB is the first Indian to have performed a commercial show at the Grand Kremlin Palacae auditorium, Russia ).

Starting August 2016, SPB 50 Grand World tour has performed in 5 countries

1.    Toronto- Canada  ( August 14, 2016)

2.    Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur ( Oct 1, 2016)

3.    Moscow - Russia ( Nov 6, 2016)

4.    Colombo - Srilanka ( Nov 12, 2016)

5.    Dubai - UAE ( Dec 9, 2016)

In 2017, SPB 50 is scheduled to perform in the USA, Singapore, Europe, Japan, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong and UAE to entertain the innumerbale fans that continue to shower their abundant love for SPB and his music.

Updates/ schedule for all shows is ONLY available through the official SPB 50 page on Facebook.

Follow www.facebook.com/SPB50 Email charan@spb50.com and

Call Prakash Nanbala on 91 90439 17307 for any enquiry/ suggestions/ feedback.