Sunday, August 7, 2011

yesudas

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (Malayalamകാട്ടശ്ശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ്; born 10 January 1940) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.
Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in many languages including MalayalamTamil,HindiKannadaTeluguBengaliGujaratiOriyaMarathiPunjabiSanskritTuluMalayRussianArabicLatin and English during a career spanning five decades.[2][3] He has performed in most Indian languages except AssameseKonkani and Kashmiri.[4][5] He also composed a number of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and 1980s.[1] He is fondly called Gana Gandharvan (English: The Celestial Singer).
He has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times, the most by any Indian singer, and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer more than thirty times by the Governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal. In 2002, he was awarded thePadma Bhushan by the Government of India for his contributions towards the arts.

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