Balram came into limelight through 'Neethaan en Desiya Geetham' in 'Parthale Paravasam'. Since then he has been going steady singing for various music directors.

Balram is a mechanical engineer,with a successful tenure of 14 years in the engineering industry. But his immense talent and deep rooted passion for music made him switch over to professional playback singing. With a background in Classical Carnatic music, Balram entered the professional music scene,through jingles for ad-films.In 1992, at the "All India Khiladi singer contest " organized by Venus Records & Tapes, Balram won the best singer award. The following years saw Balram lending his rich,endearing voice to a number of jingles in 6-7 Indian languages.

Be it old classic Hindi film melodies, pop or the racy beat of today, Balram's versatile singing in live stage performances has enthralled audiences of all age groups. His own banner "Sadabahaar Nagme" has performed about 400 shows in India and abroad. . He has also released 2 Indipop albums- "Tujhse Pyaar Hai" and "Khwabon Mein" .The third one, a fusion album is expected to hit the market by October.

Balram's world expands beyond music and engineering. He has been the "Surf Excel" model for the South at the time of its launch in 1996. Here is an exclusive and interesting interview of this versatile personality:

We know that you were busy singing jingles in Mumbai and how did you get into Paarthaale Paravasam?
A.R.Rahman was in Mumbai for recording some parts for "Lagaan" on 15th September 2000 at a studio called 4D. He was specifically wanting some new voices and through Mr.Brij Bhushan (a veteran Hindi voiceover artiste ) I was called for the recording. During this meeting I handed over a CD of my first Indipop album "Tujhse Pyaar Hai" (released in April2000) to ARR. After a year, on July 10th 2001 I received a call from Noell (ARR's secretary) saying, "Calling from Rahman's office. Can you come to Chennai to-morrow?". And on July 11th I recorded my first Tamil film song!!! A dream come true.

When did you first realize that your voice resembles P.B.S's ?
After I finished recording the Parthale Paravasam song. Later when I met Vidyasagar (when I recorded my first Malayalam film song for "Gramaphone") he said you sound just like PBS. Frankly I had no idea about PBS's voice although I have listened to some of his songs on radio in my younger days. Till the stalwarts told me, I only knew that I had P & B in my name!!!!

Though you were born and brought up in Mumbai, how come your Tamil pronunciation is very good?
I have been singing jingles, title songs of serials in Tamil right from 1991. Be it any language , I believe in perfecting the pronunciation of the language that I sing. And Tamil being my mother tongue, it was not that difficult I can say I have improved it over these years. Watching a bit of SUN TV and other channels helped a lot .

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