Sound
K. J. Yesudas
- Born
- Jan 10, 1940 · Age 86
- Place of birth
- Ernakulam, Kerala, India
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 6
- TV credits
- 0
Also known as (8)
- Gana Gandharvan
- Dasettan
- ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ് കട്ടാശേരി
- യേശുദാസ്
- Kattassery Joseph Yesudas
- K J Yesudas
- K.J. Yesudas
- KJ Yesudas
Biography
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…
