Updated On: 10 November, 2021 09:11 AM IST | Mumbai | ANI
Previously, SP Balasubrahmanyam had won six national awards and was also felicitated with Padma Shri (2001) and Padma Bhushan (2011)

SP Balasubrahmanyam/picture courtesy: mid-day archives
Playback singer SP Balasubrahmanyam was awarded the Padma Vibhushan posthumously on Tuesday. His son SP Charan received the award from President Ram Nath Kovind at the 2021 Civil Investiture Ceremony-I at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi.
Balasubrahmanyam was a playback singer, music director, and dubbing artist, his work significantly outdoing language barriers with contributions in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam film industries. The Padma Shri award-winning musician is survived by his wife Savitri Balasubrahmanyam and his children SP Charan and Pallavi Balasubrahmanyam. He breathed his last on September 25, 2020.