In 2006, he sang 16 film songs in four South Indian languages on the same day at AVM Studio, Chennai. He has bagged seven National Film Awards for the best singer category in the Indian film industry. Yesudas began his career in playback singing in Kollywood in the early 60's and by mid 70's, he entered Bollywood. Although he is a Carnatic music expert, he mastered in Hindustani music as well. Later, he joined the Music Academy in Thrippunithura and underwent training.įor a brief period, he was with Sri Vechur Hari Hara Subramania Iyer, after which he took training from Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, a maestro of classical music. His father, who was a well-known Malayalam classical musician and stage actor, was his first guru. Yesudas was born in Fort Kochi, Kerala, to Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth. Fans term his voice as nothing short of "divine". In his heyday, he was known as the Jim Reeves of South India. He has been singing for most Indian languages, except Assamese and Kashmiri. He has recorded more than 40,000 songs in many languages, including Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English through his long career. His voice lends itself well to both Indian classical, devotional and popular songs. Kattassery Joseph Yesudas or Jesudas is an Indian classical musician and a leading playback singer.
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