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Dr.K. J. Yesudas കട്ടാശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ്

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (Malayalam: കട്ടാശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ്; born 10 January 1940) is an Indian singer.

attassery Joseph Yesudas was born on January 10th 1940 in Fort Kochi, the ancient port city of Kerala.

His father Augustine Joseph was himself a well-known singer and stage actor who rode the Kerala stage like a colossus for over a quarter of a century.

Eldest of the four sons and one daughter of the Joseph couple, Yesudas took to music at a very early age.

His first Guru was his beloved father himself, who lovingly and painstakingly led little Yesudas through the basic precepts of Carnatic Music while he was hardly five years old.

Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 70,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam,

Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English

during a career spanning 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).

Yesudas has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times (the most by any Indian singer),

Filmfare Awards and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer 43 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 and the Padma Bhushan in 2002 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 50,000 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.

Music came as divine grace and paternal inheritance to K.J. Yesudas, one of India's foremost exponents of classical carnatic vocal music and leading playback singer in all Indian languages.