{"id":326824,"date":"2020-09-25T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T08:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326824"},"modified":"2020-09-25T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T08:48:35","slug":"sp-balasubramanyam-passes-away-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sp-balasubramanyam-passes-away-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"SP Balasubramanyam passes away at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/sp-balasubramanyam-passes-away-at-74\/balasubramaniam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326825\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326825 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/balasubramaniam-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/balasubramaniam-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/balasubramaniam-482x420.jpg 482w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/balasubramaniam.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a>Legendary singer SP Balasubramanyam passed away at the age of 74 at a private hospital in Chennai on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Balasubramanyam had tested positive for Covid-19 and was undergoing treatment at MGM healthcare in Chennai.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to reports Balasubramanyam had been admitted on August 5th and commenced on life support measures since August 14th for severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Despite maximal life support his condition deteriorated in the last 24 hours and he died due to cardio-respiratory arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;We confirm that sadly Thiru SP Balasubrahmanyam has passed away at MGM Healthcare Chennai. Our thoughts and condolences remain with the family and loved ones at this difficult time,&#8221; MGM healthcare said in an official statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He sang over 40 thousand songs in more than 5 languages. He sang many great songs in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam languages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary singer SP Balasubramanyam passed away at the age of 74 at a private hospital in Chennai on Friday. Balasubramanyam had tested positive for Covid-19 and was undergoing treatment at MGM healthcare in Chennai.\u00a0 According to reports Balasubramanyam had been admitted on August 5th and commenced on life support measures since August 14th for severe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":326825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2534],"tags":[13483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326827,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326824\/revisions\/326827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}