“If this is the design of God, I obey it with reverence,” he remarked. He requested the fans and audience not to have any “harsh” opinions and discussions regarding this on Facebook. Hope you will bless our concerts as usual,” he said.
By God’s grace, I have sung lots of other (music) composers’ songs too which we will present. “But the show (music concert) should happen.
Under the circumstances, SPB announced that “he and his troupe would not perform Ilayaraja’s music from today”. “As I said earlier, if it is a law, so be it and I obey it,” he said. I do not know why now when we started US tour (a legal notice has been sent to him),” Balasubrahmanyam, fondly called ‘SPB’ by his fans, said. “I did not get any feelers from Raja’s office at that time. Charan designed this world tour and we kick started this ‘SPB50’ in August in Toronto (Canada) and then performed in Russia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai and did a lot of shows in India too,” he said. “Let me say, I am ignorant of these legalities. The notice said if SPB, his son SPB Charan and Chitra continued to sing IR songs, they would be breaking the copyright law and he and his team would have to pay huge financial penalties and face legal action. In a Facebook post, the multiple times national award-winning singer, who is now in the US, termed the incident as “unfortunate” and requested “all friends, music lovers and especially all media persons, not to make I.Raja-SPB issue sensational.” After all, SPB said, he was fortunate enough to have sung for a large number of composers other than Ilayaraja. SPB also announced that he would perform songs of other music composers. Rather than bend, SPB preferred to take the high moral ground and announced in an FB post that he would stop singing songs composed by Ilayaraja in view of the notice. Thus, SPB was pained beyond words on receipt of the legal notice from Ilayaraja’s lawyer.
Vijay Yesudas, the singer son of K J Yesudas, and Yugindran, son of Malaysia Vasudevan, a common friend of Ilayaraja and SPB from their early days, would also be a part of the team that spent holidays together.Įven GenNext had a strong bond. SPB’s son Charan would engage Yuvan Shankar Raja as the music director of his productions, while Gangei Amaren’s son, Venkat Prabhu, was the director, assisted by his brother Premji Amaren. Their kids spent a lot of time together, and even collaborated in areas like film production, making of music albums etc. SPB and Ilayaraja would call other in the singular form (‘vaadaa podaa’). The development came as a shook to common friends of SPB and Ilayaraja, and wondered what could have gone wrong, since they supported each other in the early formative years. In an earlier article, had traced the early days of SPB and Ilayaraja, particularly the music director’s struggle to make ends meet in Chennai. The spat between the two shook the music world as they were always considered close friends, a friendship that spanned over four decades. Ilayaraja’s lawyer said in the notice that Ilayaraja held the copyright of the songs composed by him. Telugu360 is always open for the best and bright journalists.In March 2017, when singer SPB was in the US as part of a global tour, he was shocked to receive a legal notice from his friend Ilayaraja for copyright violation, by singing his songs without consent. SPB said that he will obey the notice and will continue his tour by performing other singers compositions. SPB responded on this issue in a modest way through his social media blog and said that his troupe has refrained from performing Illayaraja’s songs. All the organisers and managements of all venues too have received notices from Illayaraja not to host the concerts which feature his compositions. He along with singers Chitra and Charan have been entertaining the audience by performing compositions of various musicians.įew days back, Illayaraja sent legal notices to SPB and his troupe for performing his songs without prior permission. SP Balasubramanyam, who completed a staggering feat of 50 glorious years as singer, is currently on a world tour to give a thanksgiving concert in countries like Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Srilanka and Dubai to name a few. Once a legendary combination – Maestro Ilayaraja and renowed singer SP Balasubramanyam are no longer in good terms.
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