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நன்றி: தினத்தந்தி

கோவை ரவீ

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பள்ளி மாணவிகளுக்கு இலவச கணிணி பயிற்சி

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:05:01 +0200

டாக்டர் பாலுஜியின் பிறந்தநாள் சார்பாக கோவை சேவா நிலையத்தில் இருக்கும் பள்ளிக்கு கோவை பாலுஜி ரசிகர்கள் சார்பாக எனது நண்பர் ஆத்மாஸ் திரு. சீனிவாசன், மற்றும், நண்பர்கள் ஆத்மாஸ் சுந்தர் அவர்களுக்கும் வாழ்த்துக்களை தெரிவித்துக்கொள்கிறேன். இதோ விவரங்கள் அடங்கிய பதிவின் சுட்டி படித்து பார்த்து மகிழுங்கள்.

அதோடு டாக்டர் பாலுஜியின் வாழ்த்துக்களையும் இந்த சுட்டியில் படித்து உதவிய அன்பு உள்ளங்களை வாழ்த்துங்கள்.

பாடும் நிலா பாலு!: 666மாணவிகளுக்கு இலவச கணினி பயிற்சி

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டாக்டர் எஸ்.பி.பி யின் பிறந்தநாள்

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:55:22 +0200

நமது அபிமான பாடகர் பாலுஜியின் 62 ஆவது பிறந்த நாள் சிறப்பாக ஏதாவது செய்ய வேண்டுமே என்று நினைத்து அவரின் ஆற்ற்லை ஒரு ஒலிக்கோப்பாக பதிவு செய்து சூரியன் பண்பலையில் ஒரு தொகுப்பாக வழங்கினேன். அவற்றை அறிவிப்பாளர் திரு. ஆர்.ஜி.லக்‌ஷ்மி நாராயானா அவர்கள் தன்னுடைய “டிஜ்ஜிடல் குரலில்” அற்புதமாக வழங்கி பெருமை படுத்தினார் அவன் ஒலிவடிவம் இங்கே சுட்டி வடிவில் தரப்பட்டுள்ளது கோவை நண்பர்கள் அனவரும் கேட்டு தங்களின் மேலான கருத்துக்களை தாருங்கள். கோவை ரவி

பாடும் நிலா பாலு!: 649பாடும் நிலாவும் பரம ரசிகனும் ஒலி முன்னோட்டம் 1

பாடும் நிலா பாலு!: 652 பாடும்நிலாவும் பரம ரசிகனும்:ஒலிமுன்னோட்டம் முதல், இரண்டாவது பகுதி

நண்பர்களே இதோ ஒரு முழுவடிவம் சுட்டி

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கோவையில் பாலுஜி விஜயம்

Sat, 03 May 2008 05:05:10 +0200

என் அன்பு கோவை எஸ்.பி.பி ரசிகர்களே சமீபத்தில் கோவைக்கு விஜயம் செய்த நமது பாலுஜி அவர்களூடன் ரசிகர்களின் சம்பாஷனை விவரமாக மூன்று தொகுப்புகளாக கீழே உள்ள சுட்டியில் தந்துள்ளேன் பொருமையாக படித்து மகிழுங்கள். இந்த தளத்தில் தாமதமாக சுட்டி வழங்கியதற்க்கு மிகவும் வருந்துகிறேன். கோவை ரவீ

பாடும் நிலா பாலு!: 611எங்க வீட்டில் தங்கத்தேரில்:பாலுஜி தரிசனம் 1

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பாடும் நிலா பாலு!: 614வந்தது வசந்த காலம்: பாலுஜி தரிசனம் 3

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கோவையில் எஸ்.பி.பியின் தரிசனம்.

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:51:18 +0100

கோவையில் எஸ்.பி.பியின் தரிசனம்.

கோவை நண்பர்களே 17 ஆம் தேதி அன்று கோவைக்கு வருகை தந்த எஸ்.பி.பி அவர்கள் கோவை ரசிகர்களூடனும், இணைய தள நண்பர்களிடமும் மகிழ்ச்சியுடன் கலந்துரையாடினார். அதன் புகைப்பட காட்சிகள் இங்கே கண்டு மகிழுங்கள். தங்களின் மகிழ்ச்சியை மறக்காமல் கீழே தெரிவியுங்கள்.

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பத்மஸ்ரீ டாக்டர் எஸ்.பி.பியுடன் ஓர் நாள்..

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:36:22 +0100

பத்மஸ்ரீ டாக்டர் எஸ்.பி.பியுடன் ஓர் நாள்..

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பைனலை நெருங்குது எஸ்.பி.பி.யின் விருந்து !

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:00:52 +0200

-கோவை ரவீ

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பொல்லாதவன் ரீமிக்ஸ் பாடல்

Wed, 23 May 2007 04:40:29 +0200

பொல்லாதவன் படத்தில் எங்கேயும் எப்போதும் ரீமிக்ஸ் பாடல் டாக்டர். எஸ்.பி.பி. பாடியுள்ளார்.

"பொல்லாதவன்" படத்துக்காக மூப்பது வருடத்துக்கு முன் வந்து பிரபலமான "எங்கேயும் எப்போதும்" பாடல் ரீமிக்ஸ் செய்யப்படுகிறது. இப்பாடலை எஸ்.பி.பாலசுப்ரமணியத்துடன் இணைந்து பிரபல மலேசிய பாப் பாடகர் யோகி பாடியுள்ளார்.

க்ரூப் கம்பெனி சார்பில் கதிரேசன் தயாரிக்கும் ப்டம் "பொல்லாதவன்" வெற்றிமாறன் இயக்கத்தில் தனுஷ். காஜல் அகர்வால் நடிக்கின்றனர். இப்படத்தின் 60 சதவீகித படப்பிடிப்பு முடிந்துவிட்டது. ஜி.வி.பிரகாஷ் குமார் இசையமைக்கிறார். 30 வருடங்களுக்கு முன் ரஜினி, கமல் நடித்த "நினைத்தாலே இனிக்கும்" படத்துக்காக எம்.எஸ்.விஸ்வநாதன் இசையில் உருவான பாடல் "எங்கேயும் எப்போதும் சங்கீதம் சந்தோசம்" பட்டி தொட்டி எங்கும் பிரபலமான இப்பாடல் இப்படத்துக்காக ரிமிக்ஸ் செய்யப்படுகிறது. இப்பாடலை பாடிய எஸ்.பி.பாலசுப்ரமணியத்துடன் இணைந்து மலேசியா 'பாப்' பாடகர் யோகி, பாடகி சுனிதா ஆகியோர் இப்போது இப்பாடலை பாடியுள்ளார். இதற்காக சென்னையில் 23 நாட்கள் ஒலிப்பதிவு நடந்தது.

நன்றி: தினகரன், 23.05.2007

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மீண்டும் எஸ்.பி.பி. ஹீரோ

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:23:33 +0200

மீண்டும் எஸ்.பி.பி. ஹீரோ

நன்றி: தினகரன் நாளிதழ், 19.04.2007 (வியாழக்கிழமை)

சென்னை ஏப். 19 பின்னணிப்பாடகர் எஸ்.பி.பாலசுப்ரமணியம் மீண்டும் சினிமாவில் நடிக்கிறார். 'கேளடி கண்மணி',

'சிகரம்' படங்களில் ஹீரோவாக நடித்தார் எஸ்.பி.பாலசுப்ரமணியம். ' மனதில் உறுதி வேண்டும்', 'காதலன்'

போன்ற படங்களில் முக்கிய வேடத்தில் நடித்தார். சில காலம் படங்களீல் நடிக்காமல் ஒதுங்கி இருந்தார். இப்போது

மீண்டும் நடிக்க வந்திருக்கிறார். தெலுங்கில் திரைக்கு வந்து வெற்றி பெற்ற 'கண்டே கூத்திரனே கணாலி' என்ற

படம் கன்னடத்தில் ரீமேக் செய்யப்படுகிறது. சாய் பிரகாஷ் இயக்க, கே.எஸ்.ஆர்.தாஸ் தயரிக்கிறார். இதில்

எஸ்.பி.பி. கதாநாயனாக நடிக்கிறார். தெலுங்கில் தாசரி நாராயணராவ் நடித்த வேடத்தை அவர் ஏற்றிருக்கிறார்.

பெற்றோருக்கும் மகளுக்கும் இடையே நடக்கும் பாசப்போராட்டத்தை மையமாக வைத்து இப்படம் உருவாகிறது.

என்றார் எஸ்.பி.பி இதில் அவருக்கு ஜோடியாக லட்சுமி நடிக்கிறார். இளம் ஜோடியாக அஜெய், ரேகா
நடிக்கின்றனர்.

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Enoodu Paatu Paadungal 3.3.07 Episode

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:54:57 +0100

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Ennoodu Paattu Paadungal - Dinamalar News

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:07:47 +0100

Ennoodu Paattu Paadungal - Dinamalar News on 11.02.2007.

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Bangalore Slide show

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:11:18 +0100

Bangalore Meet Slide Show
http://community.webshots.com/slideshow/100417700?user=1

Bangalore Meet Minutes send by Mr.Dasarathi, Chennai

http://spbindia.blogspot.com/2007/02/meet-greet-spb-28th-jan-2007-at.html

Thanks to MR.Suthakar & MR.Dasarathi -- Covai Ravee

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Bangalore Slide show

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:10:17 +0100

Bangalore Meet Slide Show Thanks to Suthakar. Covai Ravee

http://community.webshots.com/slideshow/100417700?user=1

http://spbindia.blogspot.com/2007/02/meet-greet-spb-28th-jan-2007-at.html

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Bangalore Slide show

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:09:15 +0100

Bangalore Meet Slide Show Thanks to Suthakar. Covai Ravee

http://community.webshots.com/slideshow/100417700?user=1

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Bangalore Meet & Greet Dr.SPB, News from, Deccan_Herald_on_29_Jan_2007

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:34:19 +0100

The news from Deccan Herald, Bangalore. News sending Mr.Vikas Kamble, Mumbai, I personally thank to him effort. - Covai Ravee

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Ennodu Padungal Dinamalar News

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:26:47 +0100

The news at Dinamalar TV news section,dated on 28.01.2007, page number 12.

Covai Ravee

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புதுவருட பொங்கல் வாழ்த்துக்கள்

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:49:34 +0100

I WISH YOU ALL HAPPY PONGAL GREETINGS.

எஸ்.பி.பி ரசிகர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் எனது இனிமையான
புதுவருட பொங்கல் நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்.

COVAI RAVEE & CBE FANS

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An Exclusive Interview with S.P.Balasubramaniam on 28/9/04

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:44:46 +0100

Thanks: to Mr.Padmanabhan. k, Member of Yahoo fans
(ani_lalitha@ yahoo.co. in) given the following Original link:

http://www.tfmpage.com/my/spb/

An Exclusive Interview with S.P.Balasubramaniam Dear spb fans,
Here is another one interview which was done 28/9/04 by Balaji Srinivasan(B .Read it and enjoy what our Guruji told 2 years back.

Regards,
Padmanabhan. k
ani_lalitha@ yahoo.co. in

Background: To read how we contacted SPB, click here.
To continue from where we left off - I gave the CDs and the write-up to Balu sir. The next day itself he got back to Raja Govindarajan and said he was very happy with the work. He was thankful for the effort that had gone into this and was appreciative of the song selection and the write-up. He was moved to tears recollecting some of the songs in the collection. He asked RajaG to thank me and others who had contributed to this work. Raja then asked SPB if he could spare a few minutes to talk with us. And this is what SPB said, "For such an effort, this is no work for me at all" and said he would gladly talk to us.
Hence, we expected to talk with SPB for fifteen minutes or so. He was in Detroit at that time and RajaG arranged a conference call. We put together the questions, making sure that most of them were not typical magazine-type queries. We caught SPB in his cell phone and talked with him. RajaG and I asked most of the questions, including ones people asked in the 'Tribute to SPB' thread. Srikanth, Udhaya and Aruna also contributed to the questions and listened in. The interview went off very well; we ended up talking for more than an hour!
SPB was very casual, direct and insightful during this talk. We talked mostly in english, switching to thamizh occasionally. We thought it was one of the best interviews that we've read/heard. At the end, he also felt it was very informative and worthwhile. Srikanth recorded the talk and I am still in the process of sorting out the audio. I will post it by next week.
None of this would have happened but for RajaG's help and effort. My hearty thanks to him!
Here is the complete interview (Refresh this page if you don't see the full interview):

RajaG: Here's the first one. This is from me; Examples of some songs where you thought you nailed it, and some songs where you felt if you had some more time or didn't have prior commitment, you would do it again.
SPB: There may be plenty sir; That should be in my beginning days; My talent was nascent then, I didn't know how to stand before the microphone, I didn't know how to modulate my voice, how to use the headphone; May be, to start with, 2-4 years, I was literally afraid of listening to the records! (Laughs) Hundred percent, almost every song has some hitch which I could have definitely corrected. Over the years, that percentage has definitely come down, no doubt about it.
But whenever I listen to any song, every song, I always feel I should have done certainly better than this. Sometimes I was not given the full liberty by the Music Director; Sometimes my mode, due to so many other reasons, though I try to shut off all my personal problems when I go to the microphone, sometimes something goes on pricking you which doesn't give me the full-fledged concentration; I could say that ratio has come down over the last 25 years. I could definitely say that.

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RajaG: How difficult is it for you to hide your emotion you were going through in your personal life and express a different emotion in a song? Say you were in a buoyant mood, but you go to the studio and find that you have to sing for your mother's death. You are a marvelous playback singer. Playback singing is a combination of both acting and singing, you seem to do it so easily. Is it something that came naturally to you, or did you learn from someone?
SPB: To start with, I don't know how I was doing it, actually. Even now, when I refer to the old copies of my songs, (I kept them almost intact - Later I started writing them in books and all those books are there with me) there are not even small notes written on paper; When I checked papers 20 years back, I hadn't even noted down repetition marks and things like that. I still wonder how I did sing those numbers. So, my receptiveness must have been very good then. It is not an inculcated quality; I think I just possessed that quality; I am born with it, which is a plus point for me, because I was not a trained singer.
After 4-5 years, after working with different Music Directors, I knew what they wanted exactly. I knew how a particular line had to be pronounced, how soft they needed, how loud they needed; So, accordingly I kept myself up pretty much. Above all, it was my patience that played a very big part. If not long back, of late there are music directors who don't know what they want. They are surrounded by a galaxy of people in the mixer room - they just want to push the intercom button and say something to the singer, whoever he is! At those times, it really irritates, but I keep it to myself and do whatever I like and just pretend to do what they want! (Laughs).
Regarding the first part of your question, it is always difficult. You have a quarrel with your children or you shout at your wife or you are mad at your driver at the way he was driving, and you get down at the recording studio - the traces will be always there. Somehow I manage to do it. Like kOyilukku pOgumbOthu seruppu veLiyile vittu pOgara maadhiri - I keep all my other emotions out and when I go in, it is only my music and my musicians. The presence of lots of musicians makes me very happy actually, which I am not getting of late.

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RajaG: Thank you for the wonderful response. It is a nice segue into the next question, which is about the recording process. In the olden days, you had the full recording happening at the same time; everybody who was creating the music would be there. And these days, part of the song is already sung, music has been composed partially, then overlays are happening before, during and after etc. This is not a question addressed to you as yourself, but you as a representative of the industry. Do you think such a process can impede the growth of a musician? With the knowledge gained from observing and interacting with other musicians lost now, how harmful is that for a musician?
SPB: It depends from person to person. For example, take the new entrants into the industry. They are very comfortable with the present situation; Even bar by bar they can punch-in and punch-out. Likewise, musicians also, like tabla and dolak players, in case at all there is a tabla/dolak which is a rarity these days (laughs), are also comfortable with it. There are two patterns in the mind of the music director; He records the first pattern for 16 bars, and the next pattern for 16 bars and packs the players off and then he goes on pasting wherever he wants. This gives lot of time for the musicians to go and attend to the other music directors, which is comfortable for them. For nascent singers, now the software has come; even if you are out of pitch, it can correct it and make as if they are singing in the correct pitch. Most of the time, the boys sing the first line and then go to the charanam, and in case the last line is the same, they don't sing it again; They just
cut and paste it. They are saving a lot of time, and in that way, technologically it is an advantageous thing.
But, when we were doing live, suddenly, even after a couple of rehearsals, if a particular range was not comfortable, if I wasn't sounding like myself, I could immediately call the music director and ask him to reduce the pitch by a semi-tone. Immediately, all the musicians used to rewrite their scores, and we used to have one more final rehearsal and go to the microphone and record it. This made me sound better. Even that is possible now; after even getting the track recorded, you can pitch shift it electronically. But, it is unnaturally shifting the pitch. Either you have to compress or expand it, and the instrument doesn't sound natural.
While we were doing the live recording, when I was singing one particular phrase, the second time I could improvise it better than the first time. I could request the music director to record it twice; Even now that can be done. But they only paste it, and there is no flow from the first line to the second line.
So, there are advantages and disadvantages. Had there been this technology, they could have definitely used it in the past. We have to change with the times. Most of the times when I was doing the duet numbers, it was very interactive with whoever was singing with me. Sometimes I was dominant depending on the other singer, and I could make them do better and better. Even some senior singers used to ask me, "indha gap-lle yEdhaavathu effect vENumnu music director solraar, what should I do, Balu?” Or I used to ask somebody whether the swaram I was singing is right or I am producing a wrong note or something like that. That possibility was always there when we were singing together, which doesn't occur these days. Most of the times, the singer doesn't even know who the other singer is (unless someone has sung it before him/her). That is because, these days the song is not composed with the singer in mind. They record the track and then search for the singer. That is an
unfortunate affair.

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Balaji: In this concert tour, what do you get as feedback from the people? What do they want you to sing? Do they want you to sing the latest and greatest songs, or known popular hits, or rare classics? What kind of feedback are you getting during this concert tour?
SPB: Most of the times, no one is asking for the latest numbers at all. Actually, in one concert, I asked the organizers to put a basket in the middle and I asked people to write and leave their requests there. When I went through them, most of them were older numbers only. Why most, cent per cent. Nobody asked for the latest numbers at all. Also, most of the numbers were melodies. They may be classics, they may be softer numbers. Mostly, I think they were trying to identify with some incident in their life or some time that they spent with this song previously. That is what I reckoned, rather.

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Balaji: How often do you listen to the finished product? Does it just happen by happenstance, like you would be flipping channels and listen to the numbers you sang, or did you make it a point to listen to the songs once they are done and released?
SPB: Every time I go for the recording, even if it is half the number, or the music is not ready or the other singer has not sung, I ask them to play my number, my lines, listen to that and sometimes if I feel that I didn't do it right, I go to the booth and do it again. But, for the finished product, most of the times, I don't see the films nowadays. Very rarely I go to the cinema halls and see the songs. But, when the cassette or the disc is released, I definitely play it once and listen to the numbers. No second thought about that.

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RajaG: Actually, quite a few have asked this question. This is about your "trade secret". What is the secret behind your ever youthful voice? Do you believe in vigorous riyaaz?
SPB: Sir, at this stage.. People think that I've been presenting myself in too low esteem and have been underplaying myself. No. I have lot of self-pride and I know what I am actually. And I know what I do know also. Literally speaking, this is a million dollar question to me actually.
You see, I occasionally smoke; Every day I take my three drinks of whiskey. I drink all the cold beverages - without ice water, I cannot live. I sleep less these days. I've become a couch potato and I've been spending a lot of time with my grand children, particularly the twins I got through Charan. It is always really, I think I'm blessed. I will never ask my junior singers, my next generation singers who happen to read lines to do these things. It is like a caption they put before TV Ads, "don't try this at home, these people are professionals" ! (Laughs) It is just happening, that's it!
I am 58 now; May be I am breathless sometimes. I cannot run to the microphone and sing like I used to do five years back. But even in the concerts, to start with I have a trillion butterflies in my stomach. That is not thinking of how I am going to sing or how the audience is going to react. I will be thinking of the perfection of the musicians and how to present myself in stage. Most of the time I know I can get the audience to my side. This is because I chat with them a lot. May be I am made up in such a fashion, but everybody thinks I am a boy next door or a part and parcel of their family.
I don't do riyaaz at all. If I don't record, I won't be singing at all! I don't croon or hum even in the bathroom. I just go on reading so many things or listening to music, somebody else's music. This is, as you said, if it is a ragasiyam appadinna, nijamaavE enakkuth theriyaathu. If at all there is somebody sitting upstairs and I happen to go there after sometime, I would definitely ask him, why you have been kinder with me. That's all!

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RajaG: What are your serious interests apart from Cine music? And within music itself, what do you follow apart from cine music, like ghazals or jazz? What are your other hobbies?

SPB: Your question has too many branches! (Laughs) Anyway, as far as Western music is concerned, my knowledge is very very poor. I don't even know the names of some artists who are very popular, like Britney Spears - I heard of her only yesterday only because she got married again! I may be knowing about the likes of Michael Jackson, who are universally popular. Most of the times, I don't listen to that sort of music at all. I don't play that music, and I don't have much of a collection of that kind of music. I have a couple of them; I go back to Cliff Richard or recently Kenny G's saxophone - these are the things I like.

Ghazals - among the present generation of ghazal singers, I like only two people who are excellent in their art. One is Hariharan and the other one is Jagjit Singh. I am not talking about the two great maestros from Pakistan - "the" best, no doubt about that. I used to listen to them a lot and I have a huge collection.

If at all I get time, most of the times I listen to Mohd.Rafi. He makes me cry whenever I listen to his songs; for even a romantic number, I cry. There is something special in the way he uses his voice, in the way he stresses his words, in the way the expression comes so beautifully out of his voice.

Most of the time I am lazy, I just lie at home and I watch a lot of television, mostly action films and watch news. Next to music, my most favorite thing is cricket. (Laughs) I watch a lot of cricket, sometimes I go to far away places to watch cricket. I have a lot of friends who are star cricketers. That's it. Other than that, I am a very very ordinary person. I lazy out and I love my life. Somehow, I keep myself very busy; I keep my things spic and span and everything has to be very orderly. I go on looking at things and say 'ippadi paNNinaa nallaa irukkumE', andha maadhiri paNNittiruppEn. I sleep out, I just get in a car and go out for a drive, read the news paper in the car and come back again! (Laughs) Nothing very special, nothing particular at all.

This may be the result of.. When I started my career, I was exactly 20. To start with I was not that busy. When I was 23, from then onwards, until I was almost 51 or 52 I burnt out like nobody's business. Every day almost 11 hours or 12 hours I was working. Singing.. singing.. singing.. I didn't see anything else. I've not seen my children growing up. I missed a lot of my private life. I think may be the result of all that is that I have become a home bird now. I spend a lot of time with my family and I lazy out a lot and I am enjoying it literally.

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Balaji: That leads to another question I had. You've obviously sung a lot in your career. 20,000 or 30,000 the number is just unimaginable. Where you choosy at some point of your career? A lot of artists worry about overexposing their voice, making sure that they remain fresh and they don't appear frequently among the media etc. But you have sung throughout, 10 to 20 songs a day. Were you choosy and say that you would sing only if the song was of a certain quality?

SPB: I was choosy only in the '90s, and that too not on the music content of the songs. That is because I never wanted to question the capacity of a composer. When a composer made a song, lots of people were there around him who okayed that and wanted that to be recorded. At the last minute I didn't want to say the composition is bad.

I was putting my foot down only on the quality of the lyrics. That too not on the classicism and not against commerciality - I know cinema music is commercial music, but sometimes they went a little more below the belt that I didn't like. In those cases I was comfortably telling them, 'In case you feel that these words in your songs would fetch at least a couple of lakhs more for your film, please go ahead because I don't know about the equation of commerciality there. But in case you feel it should be sung by me, and believe my voice should be there, then you've got to change these lines'. I was getting one happiness over there. At least I was keeping myself aloof from that sort of numbers. and secondly, if I was not singing, somebody else got a chance to sing that number. That would have been somebody's bread and butter.

Otherwise, I was never choosy. My disqualification was that I could never say no to anybody. Even after the 15th song, 9.30 or 10o clock in the night, I would be packing up and some producer used to come and say, 'Balu Sir, tomorrow I got my hero's dates. I definitely need this song. 'ungaLukku enna saar, 10 nimishaththilE paadiduveenga' appadinnuduvaanga. I used to tell them that 10 minutes of singing, rather finishing a song in just 10 minutes is more of a mental strain than a physical strain. No doubt my lungs at that stage were asking for more oxygen. Number two, to give a song in a quick period needs a lot of concentration and you spend a lot of energy through your mind.

If I explained these things, sometimes it was gibberish to them. They were only bothered about the next day's hero's commitment. So, I couldn't say no, 'Ok, I will finish this'. Like that I burnt out myself. Otherwise, may be I could not have sung this many number of songs. And not without pride, but with confidence, I can say that in the coming 30-40 years nobody will be able to record this many numbers. I am NOT very proud of this. It just happened because of my personality. I wanted to please everyone.

At that juncture too, lot of people thought if I don't sing that song, it will go to somebody else. I vouch on my profession, I never thought like that. I was only feeling that this music director should not be hampered because of my not singing at all. There were so many times when I heard a track recorded by somebody else, and I felt it was quite good. It would not have been very good, but if they had tried to do it a couple of times more, it could have been perfect. I used to argue with the music director why do you want me to do it again? What is wrong with this particular singing, you tell me? Or you get him to do it once again, let's take a couple of takes more and you will be giving an opportunity to others. And only in minimum numbers people listened to me and did so. Most of the times they said, "aNNaa, enna irundhaalum neenga paadinathu maadhiri irukkaadhu". That might be a fact, but when I was in the beginning stage, if the music directors thought so I would not
have got these opportunities at all!

So, coming to the point, I could say no only to those vulgar words put in the songs. That too from the '90s. Prior to that I was hesitant in saying that I wouldn't sing. I will give an example. "Oh pOdu" I didn't like the lyrics at all. If you go intricately into the charanams, you will feel the quality of the lyrics. As soon as I went to the recording studio, I looked at the paper. There was Mr. Saravanan and Bharathwaj, my junior and a very nice person. If I could say to him "leave me off, indhap paattu vENdaam"nna "sari sir"nnu solliyiruppaaru. But Saravanan was there and Mr.Vairamuthu was also there. I said "Sir, do you really want me to sing this number?" "Yes, we really want you to sing, for obvious reasons" appadinnaanga. I couldn't say no. I respect Vairamuthu who is a wonderful poet and a great friend of mine, and I respect the seniority of Mr. Saravanan. He is such a soft spoken man that I couldn't say no. So it was a sort of embarassing situation where even a
couple of those numbers could have come out of my voice. But otherwise I never said no to anybody.

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RajaG: The mention of Vairamuthu takes us to this question that a couple have asked. And that is the state of pronounciation and enunciation. Of course, you stand at the top of the list as a model to emulate. You are also a marvellous music director. This question is from Udhaya who says he wishes you would compose for more films and private albums, if only to resurrect the quality of pronounciation in songs, especially in Tamil Film Music.

SPB: I love it Sir, but nobody is giving me a chance to compose music. I am seriously telling this, I am not trying to run away from the responsibilities of composing music at all. I love (to compose). May be I may put more conditions now. Previously endhap padamaa irundhaalum I used to accept it and do it. May be now I would say, I need this lyricist, or that voice and may be for some sort of situation I may not be able to produce music. But, people are literally not coming to me asking me to do music! It is so unfortunate.

Otherwise I would certainly do it, not for reason that you said, that I might up the quality of pronounciation or lyrics or what not. But as far as I am concerned, I did music for 50-52 films in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. I did background scores for a couple of films also. I NEVER did a song which I didn't like. Even though some alternative tunes that I gave they okayed it, adhu thavira always my content was my melody. I used to give a lot of importance to the lyricist. I did both ways, I composed tune first and sometimes I took the lyrics and then composed also.

I always felt that the song should go to the heart of the people through the lyrics first and then the music. So, even after I composed the melody and the lyricist would give me his lyrics; Listening to that, oru dheergAshram paNNaNumnaa kooda, I didn't mind changing my melody a bit for the sake of the lyrics. I never said no for that. The million dollar question is that nobody is asking me do music! The latest one which I've done is my son's film (unnai charaNadainthEn) . That too he asked me to do, I never said I wanted to do music.

Udhaya: naanga ellaarum kEkkarOm, neenga paNNunga.

SPB: (Laughs) Oh yeah, you produce a film, I will definitely do the music! If at all it is a film..

RajaG: How about private albums? For example, you did a collection of Urdu ghazals (sings the tune for SPB to recognize the song).

SPB: Two years back, Nikhil-Vinay composed a pop album. All melodies only in that. I recorded it, but it has not seen the light of the day yet; I don't know the reason. Lovely numbers they have composed. If somebody asks me to do those sort of numbers I will certainly do it. ippO enna aachunnaa, particularly devotional albums, especially in South India, they have become very seasonal. Before December, it is all Christian albums. And when Aiyappa season comes it is all Aiyappa songs. ipapdi ellaam varum. Still we can do some wonderful melodies. But even those producers have got some norms. If it comes to Aiyappa, they always want "thin thaka thin thaka thOm"; Melodious, softer numbers irukka koodaathunnu feel paNNuvaanga. May be I may take more time to compose those numbers and more time to record those numbers also. ippO 10 paattu oru naaLle track eduththuttu aduththa naaL record paNNalaam. When I sing, I sing all the 10 songs in a day. While recording or composing I may
take more time. If somebody asks I will definitely do it, not necessarily film songs.

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RajaG: Can you give us a few suggestions on how one should handle critics?

SPB: It all depends on the platform of self-assessment actually. If one thinks he is always right, he cannot take the criticism from others. If you have the sense of knowing whether they are sincerely trying to get the best out of you and are sincerely criticising you, then you have to take it with a smile. But there will be some people who will always search for holes. First of all, they don't look at the total product - They first start with finding the mistakes. Take everything with a smile. As long as your self-assessment is right, you will never falter at all. There is no meaning in becoming emotional and arguing with them. Ultimately if you give your best the next time they will only give it a bad remark.

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RajaG: The next question is about live concert singing. We want to thank you as an excellent ambassador for the film world. As fans, we want you to carry back the message that all the genuine fans of music are disappointed and deprived by the concept of track singing and lip-syncing on stage. We feel that it is a great degeneration of values. We know that in your live concert you don't do that.

SPB: Actually, it is a deceit, you know. Why do people come to see a live performance? There is an adjective 'live' there. You see, they all very well know that you can't bring all the 30 pieces of instruments on stage, unless it happens to be a bigger music director. And they know that the people are bound to make mistakes and they don't mind it. They want to see the singer singing in flesh and blood and see how he interacts with the musicians on the stage. Those things make a big difference to the live audience. People coming with tracks already made and.. adhu kooda paravaayillai, but lip-syncE paNNaraangannu kEkkumbOthu romba kashtamaa irukku. That I feel very bad about. Playing a record and lip-syncing it.. absolutely bad. I will never encourage that.

I have given my piece of mind to lots of singers who have been doing like that, not straight forwardly. They say that certain backgrounds are very difficult (to reproduce) and that's why we are doing it like that. You can simplify the background. You need not even play the background - When you sing, people are there to listen. Background is only a breathing space. That is what K.V.Mahadevan used to say. Very practical person. Even while recording, oru chinna note yEthaavathu thappu vandhuchunnaa, avar OK paNNiduvaar. appuramaa solluvaar, "pOdaa, oru 10% aaLungaLukku theriyattumaa? TheriyattumE! thappE kedaiyaathu. naama ellaarum human beings thaanE. Music edhukku irukku? It is only a breathing space for the singer. angE Edhaavathu oru dance pOduvaanga. paattile irukkara vaarthai nallaa kEkkaNumdaa kaNNaa, sruthi suththamaa paadaNum. anubavichu paadaNum. adhu irundhaa pOdhumdaa! "

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Balaji: By the 80s and 90s, you were a legend in the industry, so one would think that you would have more leeway to tailor the song according to your creativity. Yet, we see that your 70s songs seem to have more creative input from you, like astonishing sangathis, free flowing singing and so on. Was this because of the 70s music directors who allowed you to improvise and excel, or was this because in the 80s/90s, control shifted to the music director's hands fully? Or do you think it is just our ears doing the tricks?

SPB: If you are caliberating this period wise, I don't think that is right. Actually speaking, I should have been given more liberty when I became more seasoned. When I was more senior, may be some people were hesitant to tell me not to do this or that. In the 70s I was just coming up; people should have put their foot down firmly saying that they don't want. It all depends upon the composer.

You see, most of the composers had so much of confidence on me. They knew that whatever improvisation that I was making would never hamper the song. Actually, there should be an ethic while you are improvising a song while recording. On the stage, it doesn't matter sometimes, you can go a bit far and people love it. But as far as the situation and song demands it, and depending on the character, you have to think twice before you improvise.

In particular, if I told M.S.V, "aNNaa, naan ingE sangathi pOdarEn", he would say, "yaaru veettu soththu? nallaa pOttukkO!". Sometimes, if I went a little overboard, he used to say "indha sangathi pOttaa en gathi ennaagum!"

So, it is all by experience you know where to have that excess and where not to have it. And it is not in 70s or 80s or like that. Most of the people gave me lot of liberty. The stricter people were, in tamil, it is 100% Ilayaraja. He wanted exactly what he meant to have. Sometimes if you had felt that I did a little extra, that is because in one particular period, we used to record and later he used to come and listen to it. He was not present while we were dubbing the song. It of course didn't happen very often. He was a very strict master, actually. avar sonnathu thaan varaNumnnu feel paNNuvaaru. Viswanathan was also like that but a percentage of liberty was always given.

Lots of liberty ellaa singerskkum kudukkarathu Rahman. He says this is the skeleton of the song, you go on singing. All the rehearsals, all the takes he will take and then he goes on to edit them later. He never wants to hurt the feelings of the singer. If we do a sangathi, he will never say that is not good and don't do that. "idhu nalla irundhudhE, vEra vidhamaa paadip paakkalaamaa" nnu innoru take eduththu vachukkuvaaru. Ultimately whatever he likes he used to put it.

The reason for the improvisation was that the particular music director in that period thought that whatever I was doing was enhancing the beauty of the song. It doesn't depend on the 70s or 80s.

Balaji: As a composer, where do you stand in this spectrum?

SPB: I give a lot of liberty to my singer. There is always a frame. My seniors have sung for me - Yesudas, Suseela amma, Janaki, Jikki, Vasu. What I try to do before the microphone when another music director is composing the song, I try to give the same amount of liberty to my singer. Some people always used to say, "We need not do anything because as a singer you have composed. adhu paadinaa pOdhum". I always used to counter that. Like when Yesudas came to sing "akaram ippO sigaram aachu", I had sung the track myself. He heard it and said "idhaith thiruppi edhukkudaa naan paadaNum? idhai minji naan enna paNNap pOrEn? kizhikkap pOrEnaa?". The voice makes a difference, the situation makes a difference. "I didn't compose it keeping myself in mind, ungaLai manasile vachu thaan compose paNNinEn. So even if you sing the same sangathis, in your voice it will sound different. If you want to take liberty, neenga enna nenaikkareengaLO paadunga; no problem. This is the situation.
indha frame-kkuLLE enna paNNinaalum enakku OK"nnu sonnEn.

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Balaji: You said that M.S.V gave you a lot of liberty. Can you take one song that you like and tell us how you recorded it? Like "enakkoru kaadhali irukkindraaL" .

SPB: avar anbaaga ennai niraiya thittinaar, andhap paattu paadumbOthu. He had composed, I went to the studio. He said, "ippO naama reNdu pErumE act paNNap pOrOm. naan oru Music Director. nee ennai chance kEkka vandhirukkE. indha soozhnilaiyilE oru paattu - naan piano vaasikkap pOrEn, nee ennOda sErndhu paadap pOrE".

Then, I learnt this song. To start with, I thought the sangathi would be difficult to sing. avar anAyAsamA paadarArE, naan ennap paNNap pOrEnnnu nenaichEn. (hums the sangathi). ozhungaa varumaa? We were going to sing in the same booth - that was a live recording. With his encouragement, I got the confidence.

After a couple of takes, I went a little beyond the expectation of his. (Laughs) Take aanathukku appuram sonnAru, "idhu romba nallA irukku, naan illainnu sollalai. aanaa, modhal thadavai chance kEtka music director kittE vandhirukkaravan music director-ai overtake paNNi pOyAchunnA enga gathi ennAgumnnu manasilE konjam yOsanai paNNu. kutti viduvEn thalaiyilE, rascal! nee singer ippO. nee adhai manasile vachukittu pAdudA"nnaaru! (Laughter all around) Romba romba anbA sir, romba nallA irundhudhu andha situation.

What I miss now is, nAnga musicians ellArum sErndhu live-A record paNNumbOthu, we could see some people's faces while playing also that used to give so much of radiance. ellAm mudichadhukku appuram, in that small mixer room 30-35 people will crowd in and listen to the number. Everybody will be watching the music director. avanga avanga solo varumbOthu improvise paNNinathO, Tabla Prasad oru virukkA oNNu adichadhO, maththavanga enna feel paNNuvaanga- nnu paathuttiruppAnga. sirichuttiruppAnga. romba nallA irukkum.

When the song is being played, naan oru sangathi pOttiruppEn. thooramA ninnuttu kEttiruppEn. Viswanathan Sir sirichuttE he will look at me. When the song is being played he will call me.

"ingE vaa".

kittE pOnathum nallA katti muththam kuduththu,

"en paattukku romba life kuduththE raja. kaNNa, nallA irudaa"nnu solluvAru!

Sometimes he used to go home and after 10o clock, after a couple of drinks he used to tell me,

"Dei! kaNNa! enna maadhiri paadinEdaa! naan ippO thaNNi pOttuttu pEsarEnnu nenaikkAdhE, unga aNNi kittE kELu. eththanai thadavai cassette pOttu kEttirukkEnnu. ungaLukku ellAm naan romba nandrik kadan pattirukkEndaa! "nbaru.

How could I get all those experiences back! (voice fades, is overcome with emotion).

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RajaG: Thank you for sharing that. Among other people, we are also fans of MSV. We really love him and feel that he is an under-recognised gem of film music.

SPB: (interrupting) andha aadhangam en manasukkuLLE irundhudhu. On the 23rd of last month at Hyderabad I on my own did a big felicitation to him. Do you know who did the felicitation to him? Ilayaraja and Balamurali Krishna. Mr.Nageswara Rao, Mr.Narayan Reddy and Mr.Rama Naidu and the cream of the Hyderabad cine industry was there. I presented a cheque for Rs.250,000. That is secondary, but the way the function happened was good. I myself with a lot of up and coming singers presented about 15-16 songs of MSV and MSV-TKR in Telugu on the stage. It was a great, great experience.

RajaG: If we take efforts to honor these doyens of music, is there a setup in Tamil Nadu? Can we use you as a channel to facilitate this process?

SPB: Anytime, Sir. I will be your servant for these sort of jobs.

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Udhaya: A quick request. I attended your concert; You sang a couple of G.K.Venkatesh songs and also gave anecdotes about him. Romba sandhOshama irundhudhu. Neenga neraiya obscure music directorskku 1-2 paattu hit kuduththirukkeenga. Shyam, Vijayabaskar and Dakshinamurthy maadhiri..

SPB: (interrupting) naan kuduthEnnu sollAdheengO, ellArum sErndhu kuduththOm. It is not an individual job, it is a teamwork.

Udhaya: I understand that, but unga fans-aa irukkarathinAle thaan unga moolamA avangaLai discover paNNarAnga.

SPB: Yeah, his servant's voice-nnu sollalaam. His Master's voice-nnu sollak koodAthu. Music directors servants thaan naanga.

Udhaya: neenga G.K.V songs paadina maadhiri mathavanga paattum ovvoNNu paadineengannA it will provoke a lot of people to go and search for forgotten composers.

SPB: 100% I will heed your suggestion sir. A noble suggestion you have given.

Nichchayamaa saadhAraNamA solra suggestion illai idhu. Ennaa, unga generation of listenerskku SPB pAdinA pOdhum, endhap pAttA irundhAlum paravAyillai- nnu nenaikkarAnga. aanA, composer azhagA kudukkalainnA SPByO yaaru irundhAlum oNNum seiya mudiyAdhu. neraiya pAttu hit aayirukkum, paadindiruppAnga, but music director yaaru-nnu neraiya pErukku theriyAdhu.

neenga sonna mAdhiri, adhu ennudaiya kadamaiyaa naan feel paNrEn.

Balaji: Actually, naan kuduththa list-lle neraiya music directors songs irukku.

SPB: Aamaam Sir, enakku vandhu, you believe me, enakku kaNNilE thaNNi vandhuchu!

indhap paattai eppO pAdinEn; indha mAdhiri oru padam vandhudhA; eppadi pAdinEnnu kooda enakku theriyallai. enakku avvaLavu viyappAga irundhadhu. Actually, naan RajaG kittE kEttadhu adhukku thaan. indha mAdhiri paattellAm enakku vENumnnu.

But when we have 3 hours time (in a concert), we get about 22-23 songs. adhilE oru Sankarabharanam kaNdippA pOguthu; oNNu reNdu Hindi song. vEra yArAvathu oru kannada song kEppAnga. oru 4-5 pAttu pakkathilE vachAchunnA we will be left with around 16-17 songs. Indha 16-17 songs-llE breathing space-kkAga maththavangaLukku 4-5 song pOnAlum I will be left with 13 songs. Indha 13-lle definiteA mostly angE irukkaravanga expect paNNara popular songs thAn kudukka vENdiya oru kattAyam. irundhAlum kooda, naan kaNdippA oru concert-kku oru Music Director pAttAvathu kudukka try paNrEn.

Udhaya: Yes, adhu paNNunga.

SPB: Nichayamaa paNNarEn Sir.

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Balaji: Do you have any plans of redoing 70s classics with better orchestration and sound recording? Neraiya pAttu engaLukku kedaikka kooda maattEnguthu. ungaLukku kudutha paattilEyE neraiya we've searched in obscure recording shops for years to get these songs. So, those kind of songs, like "nitham nitham en kaNNOdu inbak kanaa". May be you can redo these songs now with a better orchestra and sound quality. This is a suggestion from us.

SPB: That idea is there. In all languages andhap pAttukkaL kedukkAma adhE instruments vachu appadiyE paNNaNum. May be I cannot get my co-singers, especially the older ones may not be in their mettle now. Still I can get somebody who can do a good job. I am bent upon doing those things.

kaNdippA paNrEn naan.

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Balaji: A while back we listened to a CD from you. You had sung yesteryear hits like 'nilavE ennidam nerungAthE' and 'oru naaL pOdhumA'. Can you tell us more about that?

SPB: oru naNbar, Shahul Hameed-nnu solli. nOkkam nalla nOkkam thaan. but the way he has marketed it.. en kittEyE copy illai! nambareengaLA neenga? Record paNNinathukkappuram avar enna aanAr-nnu theriyallai. indha mAdhiri yArAvathu kEttavanga sollumbOthu thaan puriyuthu, Oh it has come out-nnu. It should have been marketed in a better fashion.

naan voice imitate paNNalai. I just wanted to sing my favorite songs. It is a sort of tribute to my senior singers or an appreciation to junior singers.

RajaG: It was a very nice gesture from you and as fans, we really love it.

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Balaji: This one is from Srikanth. We see a lot of singers who imitate you; They imitate your style, your voice and are so influenced by you. How did you escape from the Ghantasala/T. M.S influence?

SPB: We had umpteen TMSs, umpteen Rafis. Kerala pOnaa everybody sings like Yesudas. Coming to that part of the question, it is that natural. ippO everybody is singing like Hariharan. But, idhu eppadi nadanthathunnA - first of all, when I started singing in Telugu, I was a puny guy; puny voice. yaarukkum match aagAthu-nnu solli they were giving chances only to sing for comedians and chota-mota heroes.

When it came to singing for Nageswara Rao and Rama Rao, it was a very big task for me. Ghantasala was the permanent voice for them. And people identified them with his voice only. vEra yAru pAdinAlum they could not digest it. A couple of singers came later who just imitated Ghantasala. They had a very big break and then faded out because they were only copy-cats. So, I took it as a challenge. enna seiyaNum, eppadi avanga kittEyE acceptance vAngaNumnA, avanga timing and style of dialogue delivery vachu konjam kittE, not too mimicking, if I come close to those artists, I may be successful-nnu try paNNinEn. Then I was successful.

When I became successful and I left that mimicking and saadhAraNamaa pAdinA kooda, people would say, appadiyE paadineengaLE- nnu! innikku kooda solraanga - kamalkku kamal mAdhiri pAdineenga, Rajinikku Rajini maadhirinnu. It is not like that. I take their style, their throw of words and sing. That sort of challenge when it was thrown on me, I thought I had to be very unique. Announce paNNAma radio-lle pAdinA kooda 'idhu SPB pAdinathu'nnu theriyum.

Take our senior singers, avangaLukku announcement is not necessary. This is T.M.Soundararajan, this is Govindarajan, this is Yesudas, P.Suseela, Janaki nnu sollalAm. Thesedays, particularly the ladies, you can never say who has sung this song. Everybody is trying. 90% of them are very falsy. romba false voice-lle pAdarAnga. depth kedaiyAthu. very thin way of presenting themselves vocally. Moreover, music directors vaikkara sruthi romba highA, veech veechunnu. Lyrickku parity irukkAthu andha frequency-lle pAdumbOthu. oruththarumE 2-3 padathukkappuram irukkarathillai. yAru pAdinAngannu theriyAthu. credits kedaiyAthu. stage-lle announce paNNumbOthu kooda there is no applause. Because they have not influenced anybody.

So, ippadi ellAm irukkak koodAthu. naan naanaa thaan irukkaNum-nnu chinna vayasilE eppadi andha vairAkkiyam vandhadhO theriyallai. It happened, by God's grace.

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Balaji: You've mentioned occasionally that you want to do a full fledged carnatic concert. Did you get to do that?

SPB: Aasai irukku. But I am loitering before Television. I should definitely take it seriously and go to somebody and do it. I have become lazy, literally speaking. Aanaa one concert-Avathu paNNuvEn. I will do it. No second thoughts.

There is no question of saying that I don't have time and all that. It is only a question of priorities. Now I am lazing it out a lot, because of my early burn out. Thank god I didn't burn out myself completely. I still have stamina to sing. May be involuntarily I am enjoying what I could not do all those days now - just getting up whenever I feel like, and doing what ever I like and travelling wherever I like. Though I don't have 100% liberty - still every day I record at least one song, cassette or Television or film.

You should go on poking me whenever you talk with me. Otherwise.. may be I will do it, but romba vayasaagi voice pOnathukkappuram paadi enna prayOjanam?

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Balaji: Can you give us some instances where you felt your co-singer out did you in terms of improvisation, sangathis or brighas.

SPB: It has happened many times, not just once. No male singer has done that to me. And it was only Janakiji. She was a very very intelligent lady. nAnga reNdu pErum rehearsal paNNumbOthu oNNumE plan paNNa mAttOm. ovvoru take-lleyum oNNuNNu vandhuttE irukkum. And she knows when it is going to be the final take and she will give something.. naan innoru take paNNa mudiyaatha nelamaiyilE pOttuduvAnga. (Laughs) That is a wonderful spirit, actually. We love each other and we respect each other. The way she expresses herself is something extra-ordinary. May be age has caught up with her, but avanga romba anubavichu pAduvAnga.. romba.. romba.

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I am afraid, I may have to say "friends! you've got to leave me" which I don't like actually. I am bound with something else.

Balaji: Sir, we were just expecting a 15 minute talk with you. To chat for an hour is amazing for us.

RajaG: I don't have any words to thank you.

SPB: (interrupting) No, no, no. ippadi ellAm pEsarathA irundhA neenga phone-ai vachidunga!

We are friends and we had a nice time together. We spent a very sensible time. maththavangaLai puN paduththara maadhiri pEsAma nalla vishayamA pEsinOm.

You may think that it has been informative to you, but it has been very informative to me also. ovvorutharum pAttai pathi endha aLavukku aazhamA yOsanai paNNarAnga, eppadi eppadi ellAm adhai vachu kAppAthittu irukkeengannu nenaikkumbOthu, it touched my heart.

As I said, it is a team work. It doesn't belong to the recording studio alone. It is a very very big team like you, the listeners team, which is very important.

RajaG and Balaji: Thank you very much for your time.

SPB: I only ask you not to be biased. engE nalla music irukkO ellAm rasiyunga. ellAraiyum encourage paNNunga. You keep those beautiful traits in you. Even if a novice comes and sings a song, appreciate it.

Have a nice time and it was nice chatting with you all!

(End of interview)

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Dr.SPB Bostton Prog Snap

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:19:41 +0200

Dr.SPB Programme Photo at Natic, Bostton, USA.

I thank to Mr.Devatapublic and Mr.Sunder Bostton for send photos

-- Covai Ravee

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தீபாவளி நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:56:50 +0200

அகில உலக டாக்டர் எஸ்.பி.பாலசுப்ரமணியம் ரசிகர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் கோவை பாலு ரசிகர் குழுவின்

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Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:29:41 +0200

நன்பர்களே நமது தலைவர் டாக்டர். எஸ்.பி.பி அவர்களீன் படப்பாடல்கள் மற்றும் அனைத்து தகவல்களூம் கீழ்கண்ட சுட்டியில் சொடுக்குங்கள். நீங்கள் எதிர்பார்க்கும் தகவல்கள் ஆங்கிலத்தில் உங்கள் முன் தோன்றும்.

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வாழ்த்துக்கள் !

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:59:16 +0200

டாக்டர் எஸ்.பி.பாலு அவர்களின் பாஸ்டன் நிகழ்ச்சி, மற்றும் அமெரிக்க நிகழ்ச்சிகள் அனைத்தும் வெற்றிகரமாக நடைபெற வாழ்த்துகிறோம்.

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Dr.SPB Articles and Latest Snaps Slide Show

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:10:20 +0200

Hai Friends

I personnaly thank to Mr. Venky, Chennai (SPB e-fan, spbfans@yahoogroups ( for wrote articles in English), Daily Thanthi, The Hind Image Section and Indiaglitz for use photos this page.

-- Covai Ravee

WORLD RECORD CREATED BY DR.S.P.B, 36000SONGS IN 39 YEARS.

OUR LEGEND DR.SPB WAS BORN ON 4TH JUNE AT KONOTTAMPETTAI, GURUJIS FATHERS NAME IS MR.S.P.SAMBHAVAMURTHY & MOTHERS NAME IS MS.SAKUNTHALAMMA.

SPB had shown lots of interest in singing during the school days itself & he had won many prizes in the competition.

TELUGU SANGAM was conducting music competitions every year, in that OUR PADUM NILA SPB HAD WON 1ST PRIZE IN 2 CONSECUTIVE YEARS, in that organaisation the rule is if anyone win the 1st prize for 3 consecutive years, they have to hand over the SILVER CUP, so if our SPB wins the 1st prize in the 3rd consecutive year, they had to give the cup. To avoid that they had ANNOUNCED 2ND PRIZE FOR OUR PADUM NILA.

MS.JANAKI, was the cheif guest for the presentation ceremony, the first 3 award winners had sung before the GREAT QUEEN S.JANAKI, immediately S.JANAKI went to the stage & informed in the mike that you pupil had already announced the prizes, but to my knowledge i really feel that, the guy who had won the 2nd prize deserves to receive the 1st prize & its left to you pupil whomever you distribute the prize & went away, So the organaisation had no other choice, so they announced that OUR GREAT SPB as the 1st prize winner & they had handed over the SILVER CUP.

While after some time, our great was singing in a local programme, the TELUGU MUSIC DIRECTOR MR.S.P.KOTHANDAPANI had listened to his voice & said that to SPB THAT YOUR VOICE IS SO SO SWEET, YOU DESERVE TO SING IN THE FILMS, then the music director had tried his level best to intorduce our GURUJI IN THE FILM, but luck doesnt favour at that time.

FIRST SONG: In 1966, Music Director MR.S.P.KOTHANDAPANI gave the first chance for our PADUM NILA in the movie "SRI SRI SRI MARAYATHA RAMANNA" & not only that Mr.SPK had taught our GURUJI the way of singing in films. So from that day MR.S.P.KOTHANDAPANI had become the HEARTIEST GURU for his career.

next: SPB ENTERS TAMIL FILM THRO M.G.R.

Article: Varallattru Suvadukal - 2

SPB ENTERS TAMIL FILM THRO M.G.R.

SPB while studying in THYAGARAJA COLLEGE, in a music competition SPB got the introduction of Advertising designer MR.BHARANI. They both had become very close soon.

Mr.Bharani introduced our Guruji to FILM DIRECTOR MR.SRIDHAR, Guruji then sung a song before SRIDHAR & he had requested our Guruji to come to his office tomorrow to meet the GOD OF MUSIC MR.M.S.VISVANATHAN.

So next day when our GURUJI went to SRIDHARS office, MSV was composing a song with 50orchestras, even though SPB had sung nearly 10songs during that period in TELUGU, he had not seen such a huge orchestra. So our GURUJI got delighted, then after finishing the composing SRIDHAR introduced SPB to MSV.

MSV had requested SPB to sing a song, immediately SPB had sung a HINDI SONG, but MSV INSISTED SPB TO SING A TAMIL SONG, but SPB said that i dont have tamil song book with me, so MSV had gave him the tamil song book, immediatlely SPB transformed that song to telugu & sung that song. But MSV was not happy with the tamil pronounsation,but satisfied with the sweet voice of our PADUM NILA BALU. So, MSV had requested SPB to learn the TAMIL PRONOUNSATION quickly & meet me again.

Exactly after 1year accidentally SPB & MSV met each other in a function & SPB had thought that MSV should have forgot me, but MSV WENT TO SPB & ASKED HIM, that u r the guy who had been introduced to me by SRIDHAR in his office, SPB said yes. MSV immediately asked SPB THAT i had requested to meet me again, why you had not turned up, SPBreplied that i had not fully learnt the pronounsation in tamil, for that MSV said that you are far better than before so come & meet me tomorrow itself.

So SPB met MSV next day, he immediately gave an opportunity to sing the first song in tamil in the movie "HOTEL RAMBHA" with L.R.EASWARI, but unfortunately that movie didnt release at all. After some time MSV gave another chance for the movie" SHANTHI NILAYAM" with P.SUSEELA,. Actually that song came well in the recording & had been received great appreciation from all over there. So SPB was dreaming that it will become a very big hit & i can become a great singer in the tamil industry., but accidentally the great actor MR.MGR had heard about the sweet voice of our PADUM NILA & he had decided to give an opportunity in his movie "ADIMAI PENN",the music for the film is by MR.K.V.MAHADEVAN.

Exactly on the recording day of the song, SPB had fallen in very high temperature & cant able to get up from the bed & it takes 2 months to get fully recovered from that fever. SPB had thought that the song for the movie "ADIMAIPENN" should have been done by any other singer, but the GREAT HUMAN BEING M.G.R. had waited for 2 months till SPB had recover from fever & ask him to complete the recording. After recording the song, SPB went to MGRs residence & conveyed his heartful thanks for waiting & gave him the great opportunity, MGR quietly heard everything & said to SPB THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE INFORMED TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS & RELATIVES, that you are going to sing for me in that mive, SO I DOESNT WANT TO DESTROY YOUR HAPPINESS, THATS WHY I HAD BEEN WAITIED FOR YOU TO DO, SPB HAD FULL OF TEARS for his KINDNESS.

Actually SPB had sung the first song in tamil for the movie "SHANTHI NILAYAM", but before that " MGRs movie " ADIMAI PENN" released on 1st May 1969. So, SPBs first released song in tamil movies is "AYIRAM NILAVAE VAA" IN "ADIMAI PENN", with that one song itself SPB HAD TOCHED THE PEAK.

Next: FIRST SONG WITH THE ACTING LEGEND SHIVAJI.

Article: Varallattru Suvadukal - 3

"POTTU VAITHA MUGAMO" song in the movie "SUMATHI
EN SUNDARI" is the 1st song for our GURUJI in SHIVAJIS FILM, MSV is the music director.

SPB went to the recording theatre with little bit of fear, as he is going to sing for the 1st time in SHIVAJIS MOVIE. In the recording theatre SHIVAJI was waiting for SPB, normally SHIVAJI doesnt come for recording theatre, everone including SPB was delighted. But, SHIVAJI coolly went to SPB & informed that you should sing this song with your own style, i will act acording to your voice. i just came over here to iform this coz, lots of pupil will put you in trouble so just sing your own way without any fear & went away.

Then SPB & P.SUSHEELA sung that song, which had been appreciated by everyone including SHIVAJI & MSV. The movie was released on 14th APRIL 1971. After the song hadbeen released everyone appreciated the talent of our Guruji.

During the period NTR & A.NAGESWARA RAO was in full swing in TELUGU field. KRISHNA was just growing in the field, for KRISHNAS film SPB was the playback singer, which had been suited very well, at the same time SPB sung for TELUGU COMEDIAN ACTORS ALSO.

The films which KRISHNA acted had become a SUPER
HIT MOVIES. So KRISHNA requested SPB to sing all the
songs for his movies & also for other big heros too, but NOT FOR COMEDY ACTORS. SPB accepted it & started to sing for KRISHNAS MOVIES & OTHER BIG HEROS TOO.

Within a short period SPB HAD REACHED THE TOP SPOT IN TELUGU FILMS. At the same time SPB STARTED TO SING IN TAMIL, TELUGU, KANNADA in full swing. DAY TO DAY SPB HAD BECOME VERY FAMOUS IN THESE STATES.

NEXT: SONGS FOR RAJNI & KAMAL.

Article: Varallattru Suvadukal - 4

In Suresh Krishna Direction " INDRAN CHANDRAN" Kamal played dual role.

( 1 is younger chap role & the other is the VERY OLD GUY ). SPB had to sing for both the roles played by Kamal in the movie.

Before a day recording Kamal met SPB & said that i will give the voice recording cassette for the old guy charecter i had played, you lsten to that & then you sing according to that, so that it will suit well for the movie.

As Kamal said, SPB listened to the cassette & next day SPB had sung the song for the older guy charecter. After recording is over, Kamal gave the recorded cassette to his wife MS.SARIKA, immediately she congrotulated Kamal, coz she thought that the song should have been sung by him, but Kamal said to his wife that i had not sung, it had been actually sung byTHE GREAT PADUM NILA SPB. Sarika was delighted & she met our Guruji & CONGRATULATED for his WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE.

HELPING MIND: SPB had lots of friends, once his friends decided to make a movie, Our Guruji doesnt want to disappoint his friends, so SPB had taken his friends to film PRODUCER "MR.PURNACHANDRA RAO" & said to him that his friends want to make a moive, i will give the surity for the money. But Mr.Rao explained the difficulties with the production, but our Guruji was very confident with his friends, so he desperately need to help. So he gave the surity & the film was produced & got released. As Mr.Rao said, the movie was a flap & finds heavy loss, to equal the loss their friends started another movie, but this time with KRISHNA who was giving hit movies at that time, but unfortunatley that movie was also a flap. So to compensate the loss & for the surity given by SPB, he had to work had for 3 years to fulfill that loss.

1st NATIONAL AWARD

In 1979, DR.SPB had sung for the movie 'SHANKARA BHARANAM", THE MOVIE IS BASED ON FULLY CARNATIC MUSIC, but the LEGEND DR.SPB had taken it as a challenge & sung the songs for the movie & proved his CAPABILITY to the world, later DR.SPB HAD RECEIVED THE 1ST NATIONAL AWARD FOR THE SONG SUNG IN THIS MOVIE.

Next: GREAT ESCAPE FROM THE ACCIDENT.

Article: Varallattru Suvadukal - 5

GREAT ESCAPE FROM ACCIDENT.

SPB & MAESTRO ILAYARAJA travalled in car, they met an accident but they both came out injury free. MAESTRO said to SPB that we both are going to acheive some thing in this world.

Maestro got introduced in the TAMIL film industry in 1976 only, but before that itself SPB & MAESTRO are good friends.

SPB met MAESTOR in 1970 for the first time, MAESRO came to chennai with lots of dream to perform in music, he came to chennai with his brothers R.D.BHASKAR & GANGAI AMARAN.

During that period SPB was running a music troop, so MAESTRO wants to join the troop as to play the ARMONIUM, but during that period another person was playing that, so at that time MAESTRO JOINED SPB GROUP TO PLAY THE GUITAR. later MAESTRO PLAYED THE ARMONIUM IN SPB GROUP. But, MAESTROS dream was to become a MUSIC DIRECTOR IN FILMS. So MAESTRO learnt music & MAESRO was ALWAYS thinking about music, then MEASTRO later joined as GUITARIST in Music Director 'G.K.VENKATESH" troop.

Later in 1976 MAESTRO got introduced in TAMIL FILM "ANNAKILI" & created flurry of records.

ACCIDENT

When both LEGENDS went to POLLACHI to a concert & while returning back to chennai, SPB was driving the car at around 5.30am, hey reached VELLORE & had taken the breakfast & SPB had asked his driver to drive the car as he is so tired, so the journey starts within a short time while crossing over a small bridge, a small kid ran across the road to avoid hitting the kid the driver turned the car, but it hit the post & fallen into the pond. They cant come out of the car, then they borke the glass of the car & everybody cameout of the vechile without any injury. Before that crowd had surrounded after hearing about the accident, at that period SPB was very familiar, So the town pupils taken them to a nearby house & arranged another car for them to travel to chennai. During that time only MAESTO HAD SIAD TO SPB THAT " GOD HAS GIVEN THIS LIFE TO ACHEIVE , THATS WHY WE HAD COME ALIVE."

LATER IT HAD BEEN DONE BY BOTH THE LEGENDS.

Next:SPB BECAME FAMILIAR THROUGHOUT INDIA.

Article: Varallattru Suvadukal - 6

SPB HAD BECOME FAMILIAR THROUGHOUT INDIA

SPB had become very familiar throughout INDIA by singing the song in the film "EK DUJE KE LIYE", directed by K.BALACHANDAR, later SPB received the 2nd NATIONAL AWARD for this film' MR.L.V.PRASAD was the producer of the film.

Actually the original movie had taken in Telugu movie 'MAROCHARITRA' in which Kamal & Saritha acted in that movie, the movie had created a history by running 596 days in Chennai.

So, produced L.V.PRASAD wants to remake it HINDI & asked K.BALACHANDAR to do the Direction of that movie, in that movie KAMAL & RATHI acted.

INTRODUCTION :

SPB was doing a concert in LONDON during that period, the film producer called SPB thro phone & informed him that once you reach INDIA, you should in my HINDI FILM. So till that day SPB was busy in singing SOUTH INDIAN languages & for the 1st time SPB SUNG IN HINDI MOVIE, WHICH WAS A VERY BIG HIT.

SPB WITH LATHA MANGESHKAR.

In 1979, SPB had sung with the INDIAN QUEEN OF MELODIES LATHA MAGESHKAR, but when they both join together in the HINDI MOVIE for the 1st time, in the song SPB will use some tamil words for KAMAL as " NEE NALLA PADARAE", LATHAJI asked the meaning of the word, for that SPB said that "YOU ARE SINGING BEAUTIFULLY", after hearing that LATHAJI started to laugh & later LATHAJI informed SPB that you are having a VERY GREAT FUTURE IN HINDI FILMS ALSO. After that LATHAJI & SPB had sung together good nos, & also they had done toghether lots of concert abroad also.

For the first time in a concert in DUBAI with LATHAJI, nearly 20000 fans had been gathered in the auditorium, while LATHAJI introducing SPB to those spectators as " MY MOST RESPECTABLE PLAYBACK SINGER". SPB then said its A PLEASANT GIFT for me.

SPBS MOTHER GOT ACCIDENT

In 1996,14th october, in KOLKATTA , there was a very big concert had been arranged for LATHAJI & SPB, 3 days before the concert SPBS MOTHER met an big accident & had been hospitalised, so SPB informed LATHAJI about his nonavailablitiy for the concert. LATHAJI also informed the same to SPB to take care of his mother.

But, SPBS mother came to know about the cancellation of his trip to the concert, he said to SPB that LOTS OF FANS WILL BE DREAMING TO HEAR YOUR VOICE LIVE, so dont disappoint them dont worry about me, i will be alright. So as per his mothers wish SPB attended the concert where 70,000 FANS had gathered.

While LATHAJI said to the 70,000 fans who had gathered over there, that
SPBS mum had been hospitalised due to an accident, even though SPB is here coz not to DISAPPOINT YOU PUPILS, so just all of them should make a very speical prayer for a very speedy recovery for SPBS mother, SPB then said that THE HUMANITY SHOWN BY LATHAJI HAD MADE ME TO BOW HER.

2ND NATIONAL AWARD.

All the songs sung in the movie "EK DUJE KE LIYE " had become a super hit songs, In 1979 SPB RECEIVED THE 1ST NATIONAL AWARD FOR THE FILM "SANKARA BHARANAM", in 1981 SPB HAD RECEIVED THE 2ND NATIONAL AWARD FOR THE FILM " EK DUJE KE LIYE ".

Next : SPB HAD BECOME A HERO IN FILMS.

Article: Varallattru Suvadukal - 7

SPB BECAME HERO IN THE FILM " KELADI KANMANI".

( As a playback singer, SPB created History, then
became MUSIC DIRECTOR & THEN NOW ACTOR.)

In the movie "KELADI KANMANI" SPB not only acted, he had also sung a song WITHOUT BREATHING & Created History.

MUSIC DIRECTOR :

As per the request of Director "DASHIRI NARAYANA RAO", SPB had accepted to do the MUSIC for his film "KANYAKUMARI", it had became a SUPER HIT, so SPB had continued to do MUSIC for films.

In Tamil Movie, SPB"s 1st movie as MUSIC
DIRECTOR was " RAJNIKANTH Movie, 'THUDIKKUM KARANGAL', within a short period SPB had done the music for more than 45films, including AMIL,TELUGU, KANNADA & HINDI.

DUBBING ARTIST :

For Rajni & Kamal films whichever had been
dubbed in other languages, SPB is used to do the
dubbing for both. SPB is very very talented in DUBBING according to the Actors. Recently, SPB had done the dubbing for Actor Suman in the film "ANNAMAYYA", for the same SPB HAD RECEIVED THE "ANDHRA PRADESH GOVERNMENT AWARD".

ACTING :

During the college days itself, SPB had acted in college festivals. So the producers wanted SPB to act in films. So, when SPB got the 1st opportunity to act in tamil film "KELADI KANMANI", SPB gracefully accepted . Actress Radhika was the heroine of the film.

RADHIKAS APPRECIATION:

During the 80th day celebration of the film
"KELADI KANMANI", Actress Radhika said that, SPB IS
NOT ONLY A GREAT SINGER, HE IS ALSO A VERY TALENTED
ACTOR. If SPB SHOULD HAVE AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS
CAREER ITSELF, TODAY SPB SHOULD HAVE BECAME A VERY
FAMILIAR HERO & SPB SHOULD HAVE JOINED THE ALL TIME GREATS OF (MK.THYAGARAJA BAGHAVATHAR, P.U CHINNAPPA, T.R.MAHALINGAM, these greats can ACT & SING ).

HISTORY :

Till few years ago "THE QUEEN OF MELODY LATHAJI" was holding the record of most number of songs sung. But, now SPB HAD BROKEN that record by singing more than 36,000 songs in 39years in TAMIL, TELUGU, MALAYALAM, KANNADA, HINDI, BENGALI, TULU, ORIYA, ASSAM & PUNJABI.

FANS :
In 1993, in a concert a fan of our Guruji, met SPB & showed a note in which, the fan had been updated the songs sung by our GURUJI (13,160 SONGS) till that day with full details of the song(movie, music, etc..) SPB was dlighted by the effort takn by that fan, so Guruji invited that FAN to his residence & conveyed the Thanks to him for his gallant effort taken.

SPB then said in a interview that, only with
the SUPPORT & ENCOURAGEMENT of these kinds of FANS, MY VOICE IS STILL GOING STEADY. I had not done anything to the fans, but still how much effort & care had been taken to preserve it, I AM REALLY DELIGHTED.

( CONCERT IN FRONT OF US PRESIDENT MR.CLINTON )

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US PRESIDENT MR.CLINTONS APPRECIATION FOR LATHAJI & SPB

In 1995, ASIAN DOCTORS FEDERATION decided to conduct medical camps in INDIA, for that they decided to raise funds. So in SOUTH, SPB & SHAILAJA had done the concert & in North LATHAJI had done the concert, all together THEY HAD COLLECTED 10 LAKHS US DOLLARS.

US PRESIDENT APPRECIATED:

For raising such a huge funds for the Charity, US PRESIDENT MR.CLINTON in a conference in US, APPRECIATED LATHAJI & SPB for their GALLANT EFFORT.

In the conference, both LATHAJI & SPB had sung some songs infront of US PRESIDENT. PRESIDENT then said , that HE WAS DELIGHTED WITH THE TALENT & SWEET VOICE THEY BOTH HAD, not only that.

President then INVITED both LATHAJI & SPB to the " WHITE HOUSE" & BOTH HAD BEEN HONOURED over there.

HOW IS POSSIBLE:

In 39yrs, 36,000 songs, doing music, acting, singing songs, & also doing concerts in Abroad. How is it possible for this man ?

SPB'S REPLY : from 7 to 9am doing DUBBING, then till 1' o clock Acting in movies, then from 3 to 6pm again acting & then till 11.00pm SINGING, if required, changes would be made according to that.

17 songs in 1day : in 1981, 8th February in Bangalore from 9am to 9pm, SPB had sung 17SONGS , Mr.Upendra Kumar is the music Direcotr, before this 19 songs in Tamil & 16 songs in Hindi are recorded in 1 day.

RECORDING THEATRE:

SPB had thought of construct a Recording Theatre of his own. Then he constructed that & had kept the name of his GURUJI SHRI.KOTHANDAPANI'S name for the recording theatre.

FRIENDSHIP : For the construction of the Recording theatre SPB'S dear friend R.RADHAKRISHNAN had done a lot of help, but unfortunately before the opening ceremony of the Recording Theatre, MR.RADHAKRISHNAN had EXPIRED, so in memory of his friend SPB had constructed a DUBBING THEATRE on top of the recording theatre & suited his friend name for the same.

NEXT : 6 TIME NATIONAL AWARD FOR BEST SINGER.

Article: Varallattru Suvadukal - 9

BEST PLAY BACK SINGER SPB, WON 6 NATIONAL AWARDS

SPB had not only sung 36,000 songs & created history, SPB had also creatd history by WINNING MOST NO. OF NATIONAL AWARDS ( 6 TIMES ) FOR BEING THE BEST PLAY BACK SINGER IN INDIA.

AWARD DETAILS FOR YOU PUPIL

1. SANKARABARANAM 1979 TELUGU
2. EK DUJE KE LIYE 1981 HINDI
3. SAGARA SANGAMAM 1983 TELUGU
4. RUDHRAVEENA 1989 TELUGU
5. GANA SAKARA GANA YOGI 1995 KANNADA
6. MINSARA KANAVU 1996 TAMIL

KALAI MAMANI AWARD: THERE IS NO STOPPAGE FOR SPB TO ELECT FOR AWARDS. In 1981, SPB HAD BEEN HONOURED BY GIVING HIM THE "KALAI MAMANI AWARD" MOST AUSPICIOUS AWARD IN TAMIL NADU.

SPB had also won TAMILNADU GOVT. AWARD 4 times, ANDHRAPRADESH GOVERNMENT AWARD 12 times, CINEMA FANS ASSOCIATION AWARD 22 times.

PRESS MEET :

In a press meet, SPB had come out very openly about his LIKES & DISLIKES.

LIKES : SPB had welcomed the scientific development in Music dept., coz of that only I had able to sing 36,000 songs. SPB loves all the songs he had sung in the films so far, SPB always wanted to give his best out of him.

SPB's favourite playback singer is K.J.YESUDAS, MAHATMA GANDHI is SPB's favourite freedom fighter, SPB had seen the movie "GANDHI" 11 times, SPB admits that in the TELUGU VERSION of film " GANDHI ", he had given the dubbing for the 'GANDHI' charecter in the film, WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST GREAT HONOURS IN HIS LIFE.

DISLIKES: POLITICS.

NEXT : ABOUT FUTURE PLAN.

Article: Varallattru Suvadukal - 10

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SPB CHARAN - SINGER & FILM PRODUCER.

As everyone knew that DR.SPB's son CHARAN is a
PLAYBACK SINGER & he is also a film PRODUCER. He had produced films like "UNNAI SARAN ADAINTHEN, MAZHAI & now he is producing "CHENNAI 600028".

DR.SPB's DAUGHTER MS.PALLAVI

In 1994, SPB'S DAUGHTER got marrried to
MR.GIRIDHAR RAJA, who is our 'WEB MASTER' for this
prestigious group very successfully & leading us in front through a proper channel.

Through this occasion, I Purposely THANK OUR
WEB MASTER for GUIDING US to a great future. keep up
the good work sir. our WEB MASTER is running a
software company in chennai.

PRESS MEET :

In a press meet our GURUJI said that he was lean during his younger days & after having lots of sweet,he had become fat. GURUJI LOVES SWEET VERY MUCH.

Then, our GURUJI said that he had lots of Fans, he use to receive lots of letters from them, but unfotunately due to work load, he cant able to reply to all, but GURUJI use to send the photos to them. HE RESPECTS & LOVES HIS FANS.

Guruji also informed thro press that all my fans would love to meet me in personal, but i cant able to do that,so Guruji informed that for all your wishes OUR GURUJI WOULD BE SINGING, TILL HE CAN ABLE TO SING FOR HIS FANS.

ABOUT NEW SINGERS:
Our Guruji mentioned a very important
INFORMATION for the new comers to come up in their
career. THEY SHOULD NOT TAKE IT INTO CONSIDERATION AS JUST SINGING FEW SONS & GETTING A AWARD FOR THAT SONG IS NOT A ACHEIVEMENT, THEY SHOULD SING ON THEIR OWN STYLE & NOT TO IMITATE OTHER SINGERS, THEY SHOULD RESPECT ELDERS, THEY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO WORK HARD,& VERY IMPORTANTLY THEY SHOULD TREAT EACH & EVERY SONG AS THAT WAS THE FIRST SONG IN THIER CAREER.

SPORTS:
Gurujis favourite sports is CRICKET & TENNIS. Guruji had kept the recordings of the Tennis & whenever Guruji gets time, he use to watch it. Guruji use to cancel his recording & watch Cricket. Guruji had went to SHARJAH plenty of times to watch the match.

GOD :
Guruji had faith in God, but while Guruji wakes up in the morning, GURUJI use to THINK ABOUT HIS PARENTS & while going to bed, Guruji use to pray, that during the day, IF HE HAD DONE ANY MISTAKE WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDE, PLS. KINDLY FORGIVE. This is the prayer he use to do. GURUJI CLEARLY MENTIONED THAT PARENTS ARE VERY VALUABLE THAN GOD.

Future:

Guruji said that there is no speicific plan,
till my voice is good, i will be keep singing.

Guruji is also planning to Direct a movie, may be after his retirement from singing, BUT GURUJI WAS VERY SURE THAT HE WANTS TO BE IN TOUCH WITH HIS FIELD ALWAYS.

GURUJI FINALLY SAID, THAT EVEN IN MY NEXT
GENERATION ALSO I WOULD LOVE TO BE A SINGER & AS IN THIS GENERATION I AM HAVING A VERY GOOD FAMILY, FRIENDS & FANS & ALL THEIR WISHES, HOPE I WOULD LOVE TO GET THE SAME.

---- THE END -----

Dear friends,

Thanks for the wonderful support from all parts, including our Guruji & Webmaster. As i said earlier before starting this work,there should be some Grammer mistakes, kindly bear with that, coz this is the first consignment i had done.

Hope you all should have enjoyed the wonderful
article & in the same time, on behalf our fans I WOULD LOVE TO THANK THE JOURNALIST WHO HAD WROTE THIS ARTICLE IN DAILY THANTHI FOR THE LAST 2 WEEKS.

Today myself & Mr.Vijayakrishnan had met the Journalist MR.I.SHANMUGHANATHAN & handed over the Greeting Card for the NOTE OF THANKS on behalf of all of us.

Regards

Venky.

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Dr.SPB's Cute Photos about Cbe Concert held on 28.7.2006

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:40:15 +0200

Dr.SPB's Cute Photos about Cbe Concert held on 28.7.2006

Hi Friends,

Then we went to concert, actually the concert is
arranged for the PRESIDENT OF THE SCHOOL (PERKS
SCHOOL)who is celebrating the 81st BIRTH ANNIVERSARY. So there is no advertisement anywhere in cbe, the tickets had been sold only for school children & their Parents, Here i am going to give the important points of the concert & then the complete song list.

1. Actually the concertstarted exactly at 6.30pm,
first The President of the school HONOURED our GURUJI,
then slowly wristling started,

but our guruji started with the slokam (Suklam
Bharatharam), after completing the slokam Our Guruji
said that i had made the prayer dont worry you wont
have rain atleast until 9.30pm.

I THINK GOD SHOULD HAVE ACCEPTED HIS PRAYER,
within few seconds rain had stopped & till the
programme ends there was no rain.

2. Our Guruji intorduced the new singer Muthukumar
in the 4th song of the concert, introducing him as he
is a local lad & he had a great future, but the fact
is the singer doesnt keep it up.

3. After singing 2 or 3 songs continously Guruji
used to sit behind the orchestra, during that time
lots of pupil came on the dias & disturbed him from
taking rest, including a girl who had attended the
concert to meet our Guruji, actually she was admitted
in the hospital, she met our Guruji & cried, this had
disturbed a lot. Guruji said that its really a Gift
for me to have lots of Blessings & wishes from you
pupil, this only had given me the strength & he said
he is always be THANKFUL. Then he announced that he is
taking break coz i am not young, I am 60, i need o get
back the breath during to break. Even though they
didnt stop that.

4. before starting the song from "NETTRU INDRU
NALAI", he praised a lot of M.S.VISWANATHAN for giving
him the opportunity for singing that song. He had been
blessed by MSV by giving this song.

5. Then again Guruji said about the greatness of
MSV for his composing in the movie "SIMLA SPECIAL".

6. Raghuraj also sang one song, but before singing
the song he requested permission from our Guruji,for
that our Guruji said just go & sing (KASA, PANAMA),
COZ HE WAS got upset with Muthujumar & troop singer
Aathi.

7. Actually the music scoring in the begining was
not upto the mark, but later they had atleast managed.
With the help of our Gurujis voice the bad things
doesnt stay in anybodys mind. But compared to
Udayaragams Trichy concert, its far better. Thats my
opinion.

Now i will give the complete songs list.

1. SLOKAM (SP
2. SANGEETHA MEGHAM (SP
3. KADHALIL DHEEPAM ONDRU (SP
4. GERMANIYIN (SPB, SOPHIA(TROOP SINGER)
5. ORU MALAI ILAVEYIL (MUTHUKUMAR)
6. UYIRIN UYIRAE (AATHI,troop singer)
7. PADUM PODHU ( SP
8. ADIYAE MANAM NILLUNA (SPB, RAMYA troop singer)
9. ROJAVAI THALATTUM (SPB, SOPHIA)
10. MACHANAI PARTHEENGALA (RAMYA)
11. SUTTUM VIZHI SUDARAE (MUTHUKUMAR, RAMYA)
12. KELADI KANMANI (SPB,RAMYA, SOPHIA)
13. MEGHAM KOTTATUM (" " " )
14. RAGHANGAL 16 (SPB}
15. DAILAMO (SOPHIA,AADHI)
16. RA RA RA (RAMYA, MUTHUKUMAR)
17. VANNAM KONDA (SP
18. UNAKENNA MELAA (SP
19. ORE NAAL UNNAI (SPB, RAMYA)
20. SANKARAA (SP
21. CHINNAZ CHIRIYA (RAMYA, RAGHURAJ)
22. OVVORU POOKALUMAE (SOPHIA)
23. CHINNAMANI KUYILAE ( SP
24. KANAKANUM KANGAL (SPB, RAMYA)
25. TERE MERE BEECH (SP
26. ORU MURAI THAN (AATHI)
27. YAAR VEETU ROJA (SP
28. OH BUTTERFLY (SP
29. DEVUDA DEVUDA (SP

Total 19 songs sung by our Guruji. 12 solo songs, 7
songs with the female troop singers.

We rEally enjoyed the GOLDEN VOICE OF OUR GURUJI.
ONCE AGAIN WE THANK MR. RAVI FOR THE HOSPITALITY GIVEN
TO US DURING THIS VISIT. THANKYOU SIR.

Hope you all should enjoyed this, pls. bear if
there is any mistake.

SLEEP & WAKE UP WITH OUR GURUJIS VOICE.

LONG LOVE OUR GURUJI.

I Personally thank to Mr.Venky, Chennai for Fantastic review about Cbe Concert.

-- Covai Ravee

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Dr.SPB USA Tour Programme List

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:48:03 +0200

Dr.SPB USA Tour Programme List

Date Location Language More Info
USA & Canada Tour / September-October 2006
September 2nd 2006 Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD Kannada AKKA Conference
September 3rd 2006 Baltimore, MD Tamil & Telugu
September 8th 2006 Detroit, MIFord Community Center & Performing Center
15801 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn , Tamil & Telugu More info
September 9th 2006 Orlando, FL Multilingual
September 10th 2006 Boston, MA Natick High School Auditorium 15 West St, Natick, MA 01760
Multilingual More Info & Buy Tickets
September 15th 2006 Seattle, WA Roethke Auditorium
Kane Hall Rm 130 Seattle, WA Multilingual Organized by Hindu Temple & Cultural Center
More info

September 16th 2006 Phoenix, AZ Multilingual
September 17th 2006 Vancouver, Canada Tamil
September 22nd 2006 Indianapolis Multilingual
September 23rd 2006 Minneapolis, MN Benson Great Hall 3900 Bethel Drive St. Paul Multilingual Organized by VIBHA More info
September 24th 2006 Chicago, IL Multilingual
September 29th 2006 Houston, TX New Stafford Center
10505 Cash Road Stafford, Texas Multilingual More info
September 30th 2006 San Jose, CA Telugu
October 1st 2006 San Jose, CA
Foothill College Smithwick Auditorium 12345 El Monte Rd.Los Altos, CA Tamil More info
October 6th 2006 New Brunswick, NJ Multilingual
October 7th 2006 Toronto, Canada Tamil
October 8th 2006 Hartford, CT Newington High School
605 Willard Ave Newington, CT Multilingual Buy tickets

Thanks to wm, www.spbala.com

For further details, please contact Kala Iyer at kalaiy ...@yahoo.com or (510) 796-5252.

Thanks to Mr.Ramana Murthy (SPB E Fans Yahoo Group)

-- Covai Ravee

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First Gift to Dr.SPB

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:57:03 +0200

First Gift to Dr.SPB on his 45 Birthday Function at Guruji House, Chennai, on 1980's. Given by Covai Raveendran, Cbe Dist SPB Fans Club,

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AWARD TO Mr.SASI KUMAR

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:32:04 +0200

Mr.P.Nallamuthu, Mr.Covai Ravee Dr.SPB, Mr.Balasubramanian and Mr.Sasi Kumar

Best Drama Music Director Award got Mr.SASI KUMAR from Coimbatore Drama Function on 1985's Given by Dr.SPB. Shield presented by Cbe Dist.SPB Fans Club, Coimbatore.

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PAYANANGAL MUDIVATHILLAI Sovenior Released ON 1982

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:50:31 +0200

The film Payanangal Mudivathillai Sovenier released on 1982 a copy issued to our Beloved Dr.SPB at Chennai. Given by Mr.Kasturi Rangan (Late) and Covai Ravee with SPB

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GIFT TO Natiya Mayuri Mrs. SUDHA CHANDRAN

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:46:06 +0200

திருமதி. சுதா சந்திரன் என்கின்ற அற்புதமான நாட்டிய நடிகையை கேள்வி பட்டிருப்பீகள் மயூரி என்ற படத்தில் தன் நாட்டிய திறமையை காட்டியிருப்பார். முக்கியமான ஒன்று அவர் ஆடியது தன் ஒரு காலில் (ஒரு சாலை விபத்தில் தன் காலை இழந்தவர். இதில் இன்னும் ஒரு முக்கியமான செய்தி இந்த படத்திற்கு இசையமத்தவர் நம்முடைய எஸ்.பி.பி அவர்கள். சுதா சந்திரன் கோவைக்கு ஒரு பாரட்டு விழா நடந்த சமயம் அவரை பாரட்டி எங்கள் ரசிகர் குழு அவருடைய சேவையை பாரட்டி நினவு பொருள் வழங்கினோம். படத்தில் குழுவின் முன்னாள் தலவர் திரு.பாலசுப்ரமணியம், திரு. கஸ்தூரி ரங்கன் (லேட் மற்றும் திரு. எஸ்.பி.சன்முகசுந்தரம் ஆகியோர்.

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FIRST MEET AT CBE ON 1982

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:28:11 +0200

Dr.SPB, Sri.K.G.Balakrishnan, Mr.Ramkumar and Mrs. Agalya Sundari

Our Club member Mrs.Agalya Sundari (Troup singer in Tamilnadu State Transport Corporation, Erode Branch) was sung a prayer song above Dr.SPB the opening function of M/s. Video Vision, Coimbatore.1. on 1982

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