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Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (1946- 2020)

Your music and service to dharma made you immortal!

Atma Shanti! 🙏🙏🙏😔
పలుకు రాగ మధురం
నీ బ్రతుకు నాట్య శిఖరం
సప్తగిరులుగా వెలిసే
సుస్వరాల గోపురం!

ఆత్మ శాంతి బాలసబ్రహ్మణ్యం గారు 🙏🙏🙏
హే భారతీ మనసా స్మరామి
శ్రీ భారతీ శిరసా నమామి...

🙏😔 #SPBalasubrahmanyam
Continuing this thread with few of my favourite #SPBalasubrahmanyam songs. There are just way too many to choose from! 😔🙏

This classic from Shankarabharanam.
I like the Telugu version of this song better! Starring @ikamalhaasan and Sridevi.

#SPBalasubrahmanyam
This song with @realradikaa where #SPBalasubrahmanyam also acted!

Once again, the Telugu version sounds better!
From Sagara Sangamam!

Who can forget this song!

#SPBalasubrahmanyam
And Swarnakamalam!

One can just watch all K Viswanath classics and hear the best of #SPBalasubrahmanyam songs! 🙏
And that is my dear friend, Pravachana Mahavidwan Chaganti Garu speaking about #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu.

Truly, a Kaarana Janma! 🙏😔
Another Viswanath classic 'Swathi Muthyam' with @ikamalhaasan and @realradikaa.

What a beautiful song! Such deep meaning!

#SPBalasubrahmanyam
This #SPBalasubrahmanyam classic from Sirivennela with @ItsSarvadamanD and @hasinimani.

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Why just his mother language Telugu, #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu gave some brilliant songs in Kannada too! 🙏
Here #SPBalasubrahmanyam talks about dubbing @ikamalhaasan's 'Dashavataram' into Telugu, where he rendered his voice for numerous characters! What an extraordinary mimic! 🙏
Just see the outpouring of all the love for #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu! He himself told Kannada actor Ramesh Aravind in his show about how he felt! 🙏
In another show, #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu speaks about his association with the great Mandolin Shrinivas. 🙏
Tell me this Tamil song doesn't touch your heart!

What range! The beautiful voice of #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu! 🙏
What about #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu's brilliant songs for Hindi cinema!

Truly, "I don't know what to say!"

🙏
Here #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu talks to Sonu Nigam about how he developed an admiration for the songs of the great Mohammad Rafi. 🙏

Bad quality video but you can still see it.
#SPBalasubrahmanyam, #Ghantasala and #PBSreenivos ...the three Telugus who redefined cinema playback singing in their own inimitable style!

Each one really ruled different eras! 🙏
#PBS and #SPB ...two Telugus whose contribution to the Kannada playback is equally significant!

So much so, I know many of my Kannadiga friends think they too were Kannadiga! ☺️🙏

#SPBalasubrahmanyam
How can we leave Malayalam cinema behind! Listen to #SPBalasubrahmanyam singing a Hindustani bandish in Raag Darbari Kanada, written by Maharaja Swati Thirunal in the biopic on him. The other singers in the movie were KJ Yesudas and Dr Balamurali Krishna.

☺️🙏
The other two superstar Telugu divas of playback singing!

P Susheela and S Janaki.

Only god knows the countless duets #SPBalasubrahmanyam sang with them! ☺️🙏
Couple of years ago, in Nellore, a special postage cover was released in the honour of #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu. A rare honour for a living legend. 🙏
As a compulsive philatelist, I managed to get a copy of that special cover!

It has a stamp of MLV on it! ☺️🙏
Sharing a few rare images of #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu from his younger days, before I wind up this long thread!

I had no clue I was such a fan of his music till now! What a loss! Sigh! 😔🙏
#SPBalasubramanyam forever! 🙏
Whattey swag I say! 😎🙏

#SPBalasubramaniam
Listen to #SPBalasubramanyam garu speaking about the great Carnatic maestro Dr Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna, who considered him like his son. 🙏
For #SPB30 he honoured several stalwarts in classical music and cinema music. Here with Ilayaraja, Sadasivam Bharat Ratna MS Subbulakshmi and @mangeshkarlata. 🙏
Wanted to end this thread but how can one stop listening to such beautiful songs!

ಪವಡಿಸು ಪರಮಾತ್ಮ ಶ್ರೀ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ 
ಮನವೆಂಬ ಮಲ್ಲಿಗೆಯ ಹೂವ ಹಾಸಿಗೆ ಮೇಲೆ 
ಪವಡಿಸು ಪರಮಾತ್ಮ ಶ್ರೀ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ .. ಸಪ್ತಗಿರಿವಾಸ...

He put the Lord to sleep with this song. May he too rest in music at the lord's feet!🙏
This emotional message for #SPBalasubramanyam from Ilayaraja sir! 😔🙏

😭
#SPBalasubramanyam loved life! He loved to live and enjoy everything about life! He said so, in many interviews. 🙏😭😔
A feature about #SPBalasubramanyam garu over half a century ago in Andhra Prabha. He had just begun his career then! 🙏
Got this late last night from octogenarian Susheela amma. A heartfelt tribute to #SPBalasubrahmanyam. She is currently the only person who has seen his entire career from day 1.

Posting it in two parts. 🙏
Part 2. She talks about how #SPBalasubramanyam impressed the great Ghantasala. 🙏
When #SPBalasubrahmanyam sang this song for Pejawara Shri Swamigalu. 🙏

Wow! Just wow! 🙏

#SPBalasubramanyam forever!
At a function in honour of Carnatic maestro Dr Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna, #SPB who considered him a father figure, was asked to speak. He paid his respects. The maestro replied saying "If Balu did a lot of Sadhana, he can sing like me. But how much ever...
...Sadhana I do, I will never be able to sing like Balu!".

#SPBalasubramanyam took this comment as the greatest blessing in his life. He even announced that he wanted this statement inscribed on his Samadhi! He mentioned this in numerous interviews later! 🙏🙏🙏
So many tributes! So much love!

#SPBalasubramanyam had no enemies! 🙏
Just read @SwarajyaMag tribute to #SPBalasubrahmanyam. All good except.....the house he donated to @KanchiMatham is in Nelluru. Not Gunturu! Around 240 KMS apart!

Didn't know even now people would confuse Nelluru, Gunturu, Chittooru, Guduru, Eluru....🙆🏻‍♂️

swarajyamag.com/culture/spb-go…
A heartfelt tribute from the legendary Dadasaheb Phalke awardee director K Viswanath garu. #SPBalasubrahmanyam and he made an epic team that redefined modern south indian cinema! He must be devastated! 😔🙏
A wonderful personal tribute to #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu by @trvivek, whose writing I have always enjoyed! 🙏

@charanproducer

newslaundry.com/2020/09/26/ith…
My wonderfully talented artist friend @VilasNayak had the opportunity to create his portrait in front of him. Check this old video. 🙏
And #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu returned to where he came from! 🙏 😔

There are many asking why a burial. He belonged to a sect of Lingadhari Brahmins who take the Shiva Panchakshari Deeksha. Their tradition is to bury. No Anyesti. Only Khananam. So the family has followed that.🙏
The Aradhya Brahmins are an ancient Vedic sect of Shaivam in Andhra Pradesh. They are not lingayat or Jangamas. They are initiated into the Shiva Panchakshari Deeksha and wear a lingam on themselves. They followed a very religious and highly disciplined lifestyle!
Some of the prominent personalities among them are #SPBalasubrahmanyam, Director K Viswanath, actor Chandra Mohan, spiritual guru Kandukuri Sivananda Murthy and so on.

There are many more writers, poets etc.

🙏🙏🙏
And there are idiots talking about how brahminical #SPBalasubrahmanyam was.

Check him doing a Pada puja to playback singer KJ Yesudas, along with his whole family. If he was so brahminical, he wouldn't have been doing any of this! Blabbermouths should shut up!

🙏
And there are still idiots discussing why he was buried calling him abrahmanic and what not! 🙄🤦‍♂️

Why can't they do some research!

This is a brief history of the community of brahmins Sri #SPBalasubrahmanyam hailed from. 🙏

Please spread this!

@Indumakalktchi
This beautiful video where he pays his respects to the media baron Ramoji Rao garu of @Eenadu_Newspapr for making him a household name with 'Paadutha Theeyaga'. 🙏
The remaining. What humility #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu!

Everyone in the industry has so much to learn from him! 🙏
Will end this long thread on #SPBalasubrahmanyam garu with this!

While everyone rushed to his farmhouse to pay their final respects, his close friend and iconic music director Ilayaraja sir went to Tiruvannamalai and lit a Moksha Deepam for him. 😭

Arunachala Shiva! 🙏🙏🙏

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