Today, Indian cinema mourns the loss of one of its greatest and brightest- S P Balasubrahmanyam, a playback singer with a Guinness record for having sung over 40,000 songs, spread across 16 languages, over the last 5 decades.

In his youth, SP Balasubrahmanyam aspired for a government job, not a career in music

Veteran playback singer and multiple-national award winner SP Balasubrahmanyam, known as the voice of generations of India’s leading cinema heroes, breathed his last at 1:04pm at a private hospital in Chennai on Thursday, after battling severe Covid-19 pneumonia and complications for over 50 days.

End of an era as legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam breathes his last

Veteran singer SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away on Friday( September 25), He was 74. In 50 years of his career, Balasubrahmanyam sang over 40,000 songs in 16 Indian languages.

RIP  SP Balasubrahmanyam: Celebrities pay tribute to the legendary singer

Legendary playback singer SP Balasubrahmanyam is no more. Popularly known as SPB and Balu, the singer died on Friday in a hospital in Chennai after battling coronavirus for more than a month.

Singer SP Balasubrahmanyam dies of coronavirus complications