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I don’t have any training in music, I used to smoke for 30 years, I’m a social drinker even now. “I’m just a common man even today, trying to live up to my profession. “Music just happened to me,” he says, appealing to the younger generations not to follow his example. SP was studying to be an engineer when he unexpectedly discovered his talent for music. “Kannada music was melodious then, and it is even now, which is more than you can say about some other film industries,” he says, naming R Sudarsanam, G K Venkatesh, Vijaya Bhaskar, Upendra Kumar, Hamsalekha and Mano Murthy as some of the composers and directors he admires. His second project, after Telugu singer-music director S P Kodandapani gave him his break, was a song with P Susheela for the film ‘Nakkare Ade Swarga, Kanasido Nanasido, under the direction of M Ranga Rao. SPB’s roots in the Kannada film world run deep. Now, so often, you don't know who your co-singer is," he laments.Īnd this sometimes hinders his singing: "For instead of getting lost in the words and melody of the song, I'm wondering what improvisations my co-singer will make, whether what I sing will suit that." "We would sing three different songs for three different bands or music directors, so we had the stamina. The Padma Bhushan awardee holds a Guinness Book world record for recording the most number of songs in a single day - 21 for Kannada composer Upendra Kumar. But it shouldn't be misused," he says, adding that juniors are often amazed at how he sings an entire songs at a go during recordings, rather than go line by line as most musicians do now. "It has come to the singers' rescue many times when we go out of tune. While he doesn't shun technology, he believes that it has made today's artistes 'lazy'. But there were more good songs and fewer bad, and now there are more bad and fewer good," he says. Back then too we had bad songs and we had good songs.

"I don't believe in saying those were the good old days when we produced great songs, and now there are none. When asked about the playback music of today, the artiste who has had a pan-Indian presence for almost 50 years says he isn't the nostalgic sort. He has been speaking the tongue with elan for the several decades, and has even hosted a long-running music reality show on Kannada television called Ede Tumbi Haaduvenu. It took me 10 years to muster the courage to talk without a script," he says. However, by the next year, I hadn't learnt the language yet, so I wrote down what I was supposed to say in Telugu and read it out. So that day, at DVG Road, I promised my fans that I would talk to them in Kannada the next time I came. "In 1975, when I performed in Bangalore for the Ganesh Utsava, I spoke in Tamil, Telugu, English and other languages, but I did not know Kannada. "Somehow, that's far more interesting, and I've always felt Ganesha habba is a children's festival," he says.īorn in Andhra Pradesh and living in Chennai, Balu sir, as he's affectionately addressed by fans, confides that Kannada didn't come naturally to him. We performed the arati, and that is probably the best puja that He has received from me because we offered Him whatever best we could," he adds.Now, he celebrates the festival with his grandchildren.

Spb kannada old songs how to#

"I didn't know how to conduct the puja ritualistically, so someone sang a hymn, someone else a shloka. So his accompanying musicians made an idol using 'whatever was available', gathered a few flowers and arranged a puja. "Once, I had gone to Chicago for a concert tour, and it had completely slipped my mind that it was Vinayaka Chaturthi," says S P Balasubrahmanyam.