Music

K. J. Yesudas

Persent - 1960

Hindi , Marathi , Tamil , Telugu , Kannada & Other Languages

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born ten Jan 1940) is associate Indian classical musician and playback singer.

Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and genre. He has recorded quite 50,000 songs in several languages together with Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English throughout a career spanning 5 decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri. He conjointly composed variety of Malayalam film songs within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties. Yesudas is lovingly referred to as Gana Gandharvan (English: The Celestial Singer).

He is attributable with singing the foremost formally recorded songs by any singer within the world. He has won the National Award for the simplest Male Playback Singer seven times (the most by any Indian singer) and also the State Award for the simplest Playback Singer forty three times, that consists of awards by the state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, province, Karnataka, and West Bengal. He was awarded Padma Shri in 1975 and Padma Bhushan in 2002 by the govt. of Asian nation for his contributions to the humanities. In 2011 Yesudas was honored with the CNN-IBN outstanding accomplishment award for being India's celestial singer having recorded over 50,000 songs in an exceedingly five-decade career

In 2006, he Panax quinquefolius sixteen film songs in four South Indian languages on identical day at AVM Studio, Chennai.

Life

K. J. Yesudas was born at Fort Kochi, within the erstwhile Kingdom of cochin, into a Roman Catholic Latin ceremony family to Augustine Joseph and Alicekutty. His father, UN agency was a widely known South Dravidian classical musician and stage actor, was his 1st guru. Later he joined the R.L.V. Music Academy at Thrippunithura and underwent coaching. Later he studied at Sree Swati Thirunal music school, Thiruvananthapuram below the late Semmangudy Sreenivasa Iyer. however he couldn't complete his studies attributable to money constraints. For a quick amount, he was with Sri Vechur Hari Hara Subramania Iyer, once that he took advanced coaching from Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar.In 2011 he completed his fifty Years as a reproduce Singer.

Completed the Ganabooshanam course at R.L.V. Music Academy, Thripunithura, Cochin

Graduated from the Sree Swathithirunal Music Academy, Trivandrum

Trained below K. R. Kumaraswamy (former principal of the Music school, Kochi), Kunjuvelan Aasan (a follower of Nadaswara Vidwan Rajaratnam Pillai), Father Joseph (his father), Dekshinamoorthi Swamikal V. Dakshinamoorthy,
Ramankutti Bagavathar, Sivaraman Nayar, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar.

Yesudas is married to Prabha. they need 3 sons, Vinod, Vijay and Vishal. The second son Vijay Yesudas could be abudding musician UN agency won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 2007. The family is presently settled in metropolis and Trivandrum. He additionally owns estates in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA and Flower Mound, TX, USA for private and business reasons.

Role Models :

Sree Narayana Guru’s nice message, One faith and One God for all humanity", influenced young Yesudas in his dealings together with his fellow men. He had his own heroes among the musicians too. Mahomet Rafi, Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar and Balamurali avatar area unit those he admires the foremost.

Spiritualism :

For the past thirty years Yesudas has been visiting Kollur Mookambika temple, Udupi, province on his birthday to sing keerthans of Saraswati Devi, the god of data, music and therefore the arts. The music competition started on his sixtieth birthday. The nine-day music competition begins each Kollur Mookambika Temple. On Sunday, January 10, 2010, he celebrated his seventieth birthday (Sapthathi) at Kollur Sri Mookambika Temple with ‘Sangeetharchana’ (classical pious songs), together with seventy singers before god Mookambika. The Sangeetharchana enclosed "Pancharatna Gayana" of Thyagaraja’s poems. He additionally took half within the Vidyarambha perform. All Republic of India Radio broadcasted the special Sangeetharchana everywhere Kerala.

Music Company

In 1980 Yesudas established the Tharangani Studio at Trivandrum. In 1992 the workplace and studio were moved to Madras, Madras and also the company was incorporated within the America in 1998. Tharangni Studio and Tharangni Records became a recording center in Kerala that, for the primary time, brought out audio cassettes of Malayalam film songs in stereo. The company conjointly had a voice mixture studio in Studio27, Chennai. The studio continues to supply and gift events of Yesudas each for film and Indian musical genre concerts throughout the planet.

Awards

Yesudas has recorded over 50,000 songs and has won several accolades together with the desirable Padma Shri (1975), Padma Bhushan (2002) and 7 National Awards for Best Playback Singer. he's the sole singer United Nations agency has been accorded the title Asthana Gayakan (official singer) of Kerala State.

National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer a record seven times by the Government of India

Kerala State Film Awards a record 24 times for the best playback singer by the Government of Kerala

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards five times for the best playback singer by the Government of Tamil Nadu

Andhra Pradesh State Film Awards four times for the best playback singer by the Government of Andhra Pradesh

Karnataka State Film Awards five times for the best playback singer by the Government of Karnataka

West Bengal State Film Awards one time for the best playback singer by the Government of West Bengal

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

D. Phil by Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu

D. Litt by Kerala University, Kerala

D. Litt by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

Swaralaya - Eenam Awards 2010 - Decade's Best Talent in Malayalam Music

Swathi Sangeetha Puraskaram in 2011, highest music award given by Government of Kerala