Music Director Ilayaraja Orders Singer S P Balasubramanyam To Not Sing His Songs!

In a shocking incident, S P Balasubramanyam aka SPB has been ordered to not sing any of Ilayaraja’s song with the music director’s permission. A legal notice has been sent to the singer by none other than the music director Ilayaraja himself. Hence, the singer can no longer perform any of Isaigyani’s songs without his permission. If done so, the singer will face a heavy penalty for violating the Copyrights.

SPB, who is currently touring for the SPB50 in the United states of America, received a legal notice from the director while he was there. The singer who has been doing the tour for quite a long time now, said, “My Son designed this world tour and we kick started this SPB50 concert tour in August in Toronto, then we performed in Russia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai and did lots of shows in India too. I did not get any feelers from Shri. Raja’s office at that time. I don’t know why now when we started our US tour.”

SPB took it to social media to inform the news. In his post, he said:

“Dear all, Greetings from the US. Had great shows in Seattle and LA last weekend. Grateful for the love you all showered upon us and the professional way the organizers conducted the shows.A couple of days back, an Attorney representing Shri.Ilaya Raja, sent legal notices to me, Smt.Chithra, Charan, organizers of the concerts in different cities and the managements of all the venues, which says that we are not supposed to perform compositions of Shri.Iliayaraja without his permission, if so, it is breaking the copyright law and have to pay huge financial penalties and face legal action. Let me say, I am ignorant of these legalities.”

He further added, “My Son designed this world tour and we kick started this SPB50 concert tour in August in Toronto, then we performed in Russia, Srilanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai and did lots of shows in India too. I did not get any feelers from Shri. Raja’s office at that time. I don’t know why now when we started our US tour.”

“As I said earlier, I am ignorant of the law. If it is a law, so be it and I obey it. In these circumstances, our troupe can not perform Isaigynani’s compositions from today. But the show should happen.By God’s grace, I have sung lots of other composer’s songs too which we will present. Hope you all will bless our concerts as usual. I am always grateful for your love and affection. I only request you all not to have any harsh opinions and discussions regarding this. If this is the design of God, I obey it with reverence. Sarvejanah Sukhinobhavanthu,” he concluded.