Playback Singer SP Balasubrahmanyam will perform at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow on 6 November. The concert is being held as part of the local Indian community’s festival of lights celebration.
SPB is just the second Indian to sing at the Kremlin Palace. The first to do so was late Carnatic Singer MS Subbulakshmi.
SPB is, as always, ‘delighted’ to be performing at the celebration. His spokesperson said: “It is a great honour that SPB sir has been asked to perform in Russia. He is looking forward to entertaining everybody with a collection of his hit numbers.”
Incidentally, this is SPB’s 50th year as a singer in the film industry. He made his singing debut with a song in Telugu film Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna, composed by his mentor SP Kothandapani in 1966.
TV Host ‘Badava’ Gopi has also organised a special concert at the same venue to commemorate this achievement.
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“We’ve wanted to do something for SPB sir as he has completed 50 years of singing. We have been pushing for his concert for a long time now and it has finally come through. It is a prestigious hall and he will be the first Indian since MSS, to perform at the venue. It will be a four-hour-long concert. Though there is a considerable number of Indians in Russia, the Tamil-speaking population is small there. Keeping this in mind, he will be singing a mix of Tamil and Hindi songs. What’s interesting is that he will also be belting out some Russian songs. He has been given a few songs, for which the rehearsals are on. There will be Russian dancers, too, who will do a special performance with Tamil songs,” he told ToI.
“Singers SP Charan, SP Shylaja and Malavika will be co-singing with SPB. Instead of choosing one particular group of orchestra, the singer has chosen the best players from Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore for the concert. I will be anchoring the show,” he added.