Speaking about his lifestyle, SPB said that he did not maintain discipline like various others in the profession. One would earn a salary of Rs 250 and have the privilege of a jeep and driver” he recalled in an interview with popular media personality Bosskey. “In the 1960s and 70s my dream was to become an engineer and a Gazetted officer. However, he himself had not thoughts of playback singing as a career. Recalling his youth, he said that he used to sing well as a college student and that his parents, sisters also encouraged his singing talent. “We could visualise the scene, by just listening to Rafi” he says. He had once said that, there was no bigger Rafi fan than himself, adding how Rafi’s music had a deep influence on him. Speaking in a very affable tone, he is seen recollecting how a big fan he was of Mohammed Rafi.
In various interviews, SPB has opened about his youth, his music icon and about his lifestyle as a singer. He once said that all he aspired for was to qualify as an engineer and work as a Gazetted officer, with a handsome salary and a jeep.
But one of the lesser known facts about this singing sensation is that he himself had not aspired for a career in music. The galaxy of 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 five decades.
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