Malluvisions's video: Playback singer P B Srinivas is dead

Legendary playback singer PB Sreenivas died due to heart attack in Chennai today. The veteran singer has a career spanning over 50 years and has sung in several languages including Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi and Malayalam films. Born to the couple Phanindra Swamy and Sesha Giriamma, in Kakinada, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, Sreenivas completed college with a B.ComBachelor of Commerce degree.His ancestors belong to Pasalapudi village. He was fluent in eight languages ( Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Urdu, English and Sanskrit ) and had penned several ghazals in Telugu. Sreenivas sang duets and triplets with Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum and Jikki apart from leading a chorus song. He was introduced in Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu simultaneously in the movie Jathaka Phala (Jathakam) by R. Nagendra Rao Sreenivas debuted in 1952 in Gemini's Hindi film Mr Sampat. In 1955 he also sang in the Malayalam film Harishcandra. His first solo hit came in the movie Prema Pasam in which he also sang a duet with P. Susheela. Later he sang for the Kannada legend Raj Kumar for a long time and the association was highly appreciated by critics, fans and the industry. In the Tamil industry, he has sung the maximum number of songs for Gemini Ganesan.He had sung for other actors as well but incidentally, he had sung very few songs for M. G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. In Pava Mannippu, Sreenivas sang "Kalangalil Aval Vasantham" written by Kannadasan and set to music by the music duo M. S. Viswanathan - T. K. Ramamoorthy. The film Adutha Veettuppen of Anjali Pictures carried some of his songs. Sreenivas has also sung with P.Susheela, S. Janaki, P. Bhanumathi, K. Jamuna Rani, L. R. Easwari and Lata Mangeshkar for the movie Main Bhi Ladki Hoon and some North Indian Singers. His devotional songs include "Sharadha Bhujanga Stothram", "Sri Venkateswara Suprabhatham", "Mukunda Mala", "Shri Mallikarjuna Stotram" and Purandaradasa compositions. His "home away from home" was the Woodlands Drive-In restaurant in Chennai frequently wrote. He had headed many music related organizations such as being the president of Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram. He expired on April 14th 2013,Tamil New year day. Shri. P.B. Sreenivas passed away on 14 April 2013 at the age of 82.