NEW YORK: With over 35,000 songs sung in different Indian languages for the past 50 years, SP Balasubrahmanyam or SPB is considered a living legend of Indian music.
New York Raja, a singer, composer, teacher and an ardent fan of the legendary SPB who grew up listening to many of SPB’s soulful renderings in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi has composed a song with the title SPB Anthem. “I wanted to dedicate this song with love, affection and respects to my mentor SPB,” he said.
The album was released on India’s Independence Day in Times Square, the heart of New York.
When New York-Raja thought of this, veteran film director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao gave him the idea to include National Integration as a theme and portray SPB as he has sung many different languages, many genres of songs. SPB Anthem Song was composed based on three main Raagas: Dharmavati, Hamsanadham and Kalyani.
Movie playback singer Krish who has performed with New York Raja many times in New York, New Jersey and in Toronto, has given his voice. Celebrity singers KS Chithra, Krish, Ramesh Vinayakam (also a composer),
Abishek Iyer, Hariharan Ananthu, Saiesan, Luxmi, Sahithya and Kavya have supported this song along with New York Raja.
“SPB’s eyes were filled with tears many times while listening to the song in appreciation of the melody, gratitude and the good gesture done by the entire team,” said Raja.
New York Raja, as he is popularly known, originally called Gururaja Rao, is a music composer/teacher who was born and lived in Chennai for 30 years. He moved to New York in 1993. He then started recording and releasing many private albums devotional, pop, classical songs with many a celebrity singers and musicians of the Indian film and classical music world.
PM Swamy
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