Navarasalu (Navarasangal) or the nine forms of arts which includes all the emotions of human psyche can only be felt by the pangs of music in S P Balasubramaniam's (Balu as he is fondly called) voice. Be it Rajnikanth or Chiranjeevi, Kamal Haasan or Nagarjuna, Vijay or Pawan Kalyan, Ajith or Mahesh Babu, the voice undoubtedly is Balu's. Fans could be divided over their matinee idols but will univocally speak of one voice and that is the Balu. Happy Birthday Balu, Wishesh team wishes the music stalwart a long life on his 66th birthday.

That is Balu the stalwart of music. He had his own style of rendering melodies. East or West Balu was unique, incomparable and indomitable force in the reckoning. He won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer six times. He won the Nandi Awards 25 times from Andhra Pradesh.

The Wikipedia compiles about the legend as follow, `He has sung over 40,000 songs in various Indian languages. He is the only playback singer in India to have won National Film Awards across four languages. He has also won a Filmfare Award, three Filmfare Awards South and numerous state awards from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. He is a recipient of civilian awards such as Padmashri (2001) and Padma Bhushan (2011) from the government of India.’ He is a singer, director, producer, music director and a famous TV host along with being the judge on some shows.  (With Inputs from Internet- Aarkay)