Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, shortened as SPB, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Indian singers of all time. He predominantly worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi films and sang in a total of 16 languages.
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam at the Gurkha Audio Launch
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam in 1986
SP Balasubrahmanyam and his wife being felicitated by K. J. Yesudas and his wife
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. S. Chitra performing at Celebrating 50 years of musical journey of S. P. Balasubrahmanyam on 9 December 2016 at Duty Free Tennis Stadium, Dubai
National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer
The following is a list of winners of the National Film Award for best male Playback singer. The award was first granted to Mahendra Kapoor in 1967. The singers whose performances have won awards have worked in nine major languages: Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and Kannada, and Punjabi.
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Image: Sachin Dev Burman 2007 stamp of India
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Image: Hemant Kumar 2016 stamp of India