Padma Bhushan S.P. Balasubramaniam or SPB is a legend in the Tamil or Indian cinema industry. He has been singing songs in numerous languages in India for more than 50 years and he has got huge following all over the world.
It must be taken into account that Kamban Kazhagam is a Tamil organization that was founded to promote Ramayana of popular Tamil poet Kambar. Sri Lankan cricketer Kumara Sangakkara is highly popular all over the world for his superb achievements in cricket.
Recently, Kamban Kazhagam of Colombo in Sri Lanka turned many heads when it brought together singer SPB and former ace cricketer of Sri Lanka Mr Kumara Sangakkara. In this Kamban Kazhagam, popular playback singer SPB was honoured.
Singing legend SPB expressed his delight and spoke about how he had not received honour till now given by Colombo based Kamban Kazhagam. It is well known that SPB’s music career has been full of national as well as international honours and he surprised many with the above remark.
He spoke his heart out and mentioned how just 10 percent of the fame (Kamban Pugahzh) must go to him and the rest to others many instrumentalists, composers, lyricists, recording artistes etc. Singer SPB showed his love for cricketer Sangakkara by praising him as a superb human being an excellent cricketer.
In the year 2016, SPB grabbed many eyeballs when he performed live to large music lovers in Jaffna is known. This Kamban Kazhagam took place in the sea-facing Ramakrishna hall in Wellawattee area in Colombo.