Wishing a Very Very Happy Birthday to the versatile singer Shri. K.J. Yesudas. Today is the 72nd birthday of K.J. Yesudas.
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.
Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 50,000 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).
As K. J. Yesudas is completing 50 years of his accomplished music career, the legendary singer celebrated his 72nd birthday on Tuesday with family at the Kollur Mookambika temple, where he ensured his presence on the day for years to seek blessings of the Goddess of letters and music.
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