Another award for SPB

Another award for SPBIt is another feather in the cap for veteran singer S P Balasubrahmanyam, as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has conferred the veteran singer with the Centenary Award for the Indian Film Personality of the Year.

The award instituted by the Information & Broadcasting Ministry of the Union Government of India will be given to the legendary singer at the 47th edition of International Film Festival of India to be held in Goa on 27 and 28 November.

Information and Broadcast Minister Arun Jaitley will present the award to him.

It will be given to the Guinness record holder for recording the most number of songs.

SPB has sung over 40,000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi language.

The septugenrain has already been honoured with Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan and six National Awards

Superstar Rajinikanth and Isaignani Ilaiyaraja received the awards for the years 2014 and 2015.