

He has recorded more than 100,000 songs in a number of Indian languages as well as Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning more than five decades. Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional and cinematic songs. Gangai Amaran was the main lyricist of the movie.Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian musician and film playback singer. The film's soundtrack and score were composed by Ilayaraja and this was his 100th movie. A R Rahman, then known as Dileep, worked as a sound programmer in this film. This song from the 1980 Tamil movie Moodu Pani marks the first association between A R Rahman and Ilaiyaraaja. Listen to some of his most remembered and popular songs in Tamil language.ġ) En iniya pon nilave - Moodu Pani - Ilaiyaraaja

He was also honoured by the nation with the Padma Shri in 1977, the Padma Bhushan in 2002, and the Padma Vibhushan (second-highest civilian award) in 2017 for his exemplary contributions towards arts. He has also bagged the state award for the best playback singer 43 times, Filmfare Awards five times, and many other laurels given by the state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal. (He was even at the centre of a controversy over his participation in the 65th National film award function amid a call by a few artistes in his home state to boycott the function.) Yesudas has won the national award for the best male playback singer eight times, the recent one in 2018. A truly gifted talent in classical, devotional and playback, Yesudas has in his kitty more than 40,000 songs in a number of Indian languages, including Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu as well as Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian, in a career spanning more than five decades. Sadly, politics trumps principles in Kerala!īorn Kattassery Joseph Yesudas on 10th January 1940, India's iconic singer is known to Malayalis as 'Gana gandharvan' (The Celestial Singer).Priya Menon is all set to take Sankalp to the next level.Tribunal rejects claim on early conciliation number.Social media savvy cops setting example in Bengaluru.KPP: The Unsung Voyager of Kerala Industry.Omar Sharif: Best bridge player in the world.Retirement is not 'the evening of life'.Heading towards stronger foreign exchange reserves.Radhika Thilak, that gentle sweetness, is gone much before her time.Migrant workers send home 4 per cent of Kerala's GDP.Transcendence of Death in the Harry Potter Series.

