P. B. Sreenivas

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P.B. Sreenivos (Prathivadhi Bhayankara Sreenivos and popularly PBS) is a multi-faceted playback singer from South India. He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu although he is most well known for his melodious playback singing in the Kannada film industry for Dr.Rajkumar.

P.B. Sreenivos is fluent in eight languages (including English and Urdu) and has penned several ghazals in Tamil. His "home away from home" was the recently closed Woodlands Drive-In restaurant in Chennai where one could have found him almost any day writing ^[1]. He has headed many music related organizations such as being the president of Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram ^[2].

He has won many awards for his playback singling such as the Madhavapeddi Satyam award by the Siva Foundation ^[3], the Vocational Excellence Award for his fifty years of dedication to music ^[4], and the Vidwath Siromani Puraskaram ^[5].

You can find his official website (maintained by his niece) at http://www.drpbsreenivos.net ^[6].

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