K. J. Yesudas
Sound
🎂 1940-01-10
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian Carnatic musician and film playback singer. Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional and cinematic songs. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in a number of Indian languages as well as Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning more than five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri. He also composed a number of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and 1980s. Yesudas is fondly called Gana Gandharvan (The Celestial Singer). He is considered to be a cultural icon of the Malayalam language - as well as of its ethnic group spread across the world - due largely to the fact that his songs have been profoundly ingrained into the minds of Malayalam speaking people for five decades. Yesudas has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times, the Filmfare Awards five times, and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer forty-three times, which consists of awards by the state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1975, the Padma Bhushan in 2002, and the Padma Vibhushan (second-highest civilian award) in 2017 by the Government of India for his contributions towards the arts. In 2011 Yesudas was honoured with the CNN-IBN outstanding achievement award having recorded over 20,000 songs in a five-decade career. In 2006, he sang 16 film songs in four South Indian languages on the same day at AVM Studio, Chennai
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Playback Singer
1993
Playback Singer
1991
Playback Singer
2023
Playback Singer
1996
Playback Singer
1983
Playback Singer
2016
Playback Singer
1987
Playback Singer
2005
Playback Singer
1992
Playback Singer
2002
Playback Singer
1991
Playback Singer
1994
Playback Singer
1982
Playback Singer
1988
Playback Singer
1978
Playback Singer
2016
Playback Singer
1997
Playback Singer
1997
Playback Singer
2003
Playback Singer
1980
Playback Singer
1981
Playback Singer
2002
Playback Singer
2000
Playback Singer
1980
Playback Singer
2003
Playback Singer
1983
Playback Singer
1977
Playback Singer
1983
Playback Singer
2021
Playback Singer
1982
Playback Singer
1982
Playback Singer
1981
Playback Singer
2004
Playback Singer
1992
Playback Singer
1975
Playback Singer
2017
Playback Singer
1988
Playback Singer
1977
Playback Singer
1978
Playback Singer
2005
Playback Singer
1977
Playback Singer
1985
Playback Singer
2010
Playback Singer
1973
Playback Singer
1993
Playback Singer
2012
Playback Singer
1993
Playback Singer
1984
Playback Singer
1984
Playback Singer
1985
Playback Singer
1982
Playback Singer
1980
Playback Singer
2000
Playback Singer
1964
Playback Singer
1978
Playback Singer
1984
Playback Singer
1983
Playback Singer
1976
Playback Singer
1989
Playback Singer
1985
Playback Singer
1981
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1984
Playback Singer
1972
Playback Singer
1998
Playback Singer
1988
Playback Singer
1977
Playback Singer
1974
Playback Singer
2006
Playback Singer
1983
Vocals
1993
Playback Singer
1983
Playback Singer
1974
Playback Singer
1993
Playback Singer
1976
Playback Singer
1970
Playback Singer
2002
Playback Singer
1976
Playback Singer
1993
Playback Singer
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Playback Singer
1965
Playback Singer
2000
Playback Singer
1967
Playback Singer
1972
Playback Singer
1985
Playback Singer
1981
Playback Singer
1976
Playback Singer
1976
Playback Singer
1983
Playback Singer
2022
Playback Singer
1976
Playback Singer
1970
Playback Singer
1983
Playback Singer
1984
Playback Singer
1982
Playback Singer
1983
Playback Singer
1975
Playback Singer
1974
Playback Singer
1975
Playback Singer
1985
Playback Singer
1975
Playback Singer
1976
Playback Singer
1985
Playback Singer
1976
Playback Singer
1975
Playback Singer
1968
Playback Singer
1983
Playback Singer
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Playback Singer
1984