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KJ. Yesudas is an Indian playback singer who has sung over 9,000 songs in various languages. He sung 207 Hindi language film songs. The following is a complete list of his Hindi film and non-film songs:

Ever since his magical voice was heard for the first time, a day in the life of a Malayali music lover seldom passes without listening to the songs of legendary singer KJ Yesudas. His art transcends languages and cultures; and appeals to the aesthetics sensibilities of millions around the world.

Yesudas, aka Kattasserry Joseph Yesudas, was born on January 10, 1940 to musician Augustine Joseph and Elizebeth. The amazingly prolific singer has rendered more than 70,000 songs in his career spanning almost 55 years.

Though Yesudas started training under his father, the incredible talent in him was further polished under the tutelage of legends like Semmangudi Sreenivasa Iyer, Chembai Vaidyanatha Baagavathar, and V Dakshina Murthy.

The country has honored Yesudas for his contributions to music by adorning him with the titles Padma Bhushan in 2002 and Padma Vibhushan in 2017. A seven-time national award winner, Yesudas has also won five film fare trophies besides winning the best singer award of the Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra and Bengal governments for an impressive 43 times.

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Born in Kochi to a Latin Catholic Christian family, Yesudas grew up in a household that breathed music. His father, Augustine Joseph, was a well known Malayalam classical musician and stage actor, besides being his first teacher.

More than a decade after traversing through the film industries in the South, Yesudas got his big break in Bollywood singing for the 1976 movie Chhoti Si Baat, particularly the hit song Jaaneman Jaaneman.

There is an undeniable soul in his singing, which resonates across different music genres, languages and moods. His flexibility, particularly when it comes to range, is out of this world and music composers have often said that he can enhance an original composition like no other singer.

A master of Carnatic music, Yesudas is also famous for his devotional songs. Despite being a practising Christian, he has sung songs like Harivarasanam, a devotional song from the 1975 film Swami Ayyapan.

While newspapers brought out special pages with feature stories on Mr. Yesudas and picture albums of him as a mark of tribute, television channels aired special programmes and interviews featuring his fellow singers and music directors, who reminisced about their experiences with him.

Superstar Mohanlal and well-known playback singer K.S. Chitra put out video messages on their social media pages to wish the veteran on his birthday. On a Malayalam channel, eminent singer Shreya Ghoshal was seen recollecting her memories of sharing a stage with Mr. Yesudas and said she is his hardcore fan.

Sources close to Mr. Yesudas said he would not be able to offer prayers at the Kollur Mookambika temple in Karnataka as he is currently in the U.S. with his family members. It has been a practice of many years for the singer to visit the temple on his birthday and pay musical tribute. After the outbreak of COVID-19, his visits to India have become rare, the sources added.

Mr. Yesudas has recorded over 25,000 film songs, Carnatic music bhajans and other devotional songs. Besides Indian languages such as Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali and Odiya, he has also sung in Arabic, English, Latin and even Russian during an over-six-decade-long career.

Recognised as one of the greatest playback singers in the country, Mr. Yesudas began his music career in the tinsel town with the Malayalam song Jathi bhedam matha dwesham in 1961 and sang mainly in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, apart from songs in other languages as well.

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Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian playback singer, actor and musician. He sings Indian classical and cinematic songs. Yesudas has recorded more than 50,000 songs.[1]

An Indian Airline service missing its scheduled departure time was not exactly new then. But the thing is the flight was delayed because one passenger had still not boarded it. There were a couple of politicians and, of course, the veteran singer was already inside the plane.

As it happened, the government-owned air service waited not because Yesudas was a well-known singer. In that year, he was apparently the one who had taken the most number of flights in the country. Yesudas, in that period, was practically singing in every Indian language that had a half-decent film industry.

Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, who had tutored Yesudas briefly in the 60s, was happy to see that his protege had grown to such a stature that national flight operations were being rescheduled for his sake.

Indeed, the 80s were the peak of Yesudas' long career which began in the very late 50s. He started off in Kerala's famed gana mela circuit (light music troupe) before getting a small break in 1961 under the baton of that proficient M B Sreenivasan. Nobody would have then known that he would go on to smash every possible statistical record in Indian film music history.

It is not clear as to how many songs he has sung in his stellar career. The numbers being bandied about are anywhere from 40,000 to 60,000. But nothing less than 40,000 is what most people agree, which in itself is a remarkable number.

The sweep and spread of Yesudas's career is astounding. He has sung in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Tulu, Hindi, Odia, Gujarathi, Bengali, Marathi and also Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian. The man has won the National Award for best male playback singer an improbable eight times.

And there have been many days in his storied career that he recorded four to five film songs at studios and turned up at sabhas the same evening for his classical Carnatic music concert. And no singer in the history of Indian films has dominated one language as Yesudas did Malayalam, in the 70s and the 80s.

A male singer reprising a female singer's song in a dubbed movie is practically unheard of. But it shows how much Yesudas was popular in that period in Malayalam and how his songs were the USPs of many movies.

Of course, there's nothing new to be said of his voice or singing, especially from that vintage. All that can be said or written about his 'celestial voice' has already been done. And his bhakthi-bhava is the touchstone in devotional singing. When he breaks a Rama or Krishna song, you can practically feel the divinity in his rendition.

Of course, he is 'the voice' of Ayyappan songs. His Harivarasanam enjoys as much cult status as M S Subbulakshmi's suprabhatam. That he, a Christian by birth, could elevate the spiritual emotion of song of any faith shows his own inner conviction and devotion that lie beyond the pale of religions.

But what is often overlooked is the fact that Yesudas helped spawn the genre of semi-classical singing, where film music and Carnatic concerts borrowed from each other seamlessly. No other singer in the history of Indian music has enjoyed being at the top of classical singing, as well as film music as Yesudas had.

In fact, a case can surely be made that Carnatic music, which did not enjoy that much mainstream popularity then, as it does now, managed to hold sway among the general public due to the presence of Yesudas, who ruled both the worlds convincingly and seamlessly.

Anecdotally, I can speak for myself and some of my close friends. In our early impressionable age, we did not have too much liking for Carnatic music. Its appeal and beauty was lost on us as we could not wrap our heads around its esoteric traditions and mostly gruff singing.

When we heard a Karaharapriya of this sort, we understood its majesty and magic. Those swarams were bullets from a machine gun, full of power and potency. And this remarkable Thirupugazh collection made us understand what bhakti sangeetham was all about.

Carnatic music puritans did not think or accept him as a full-fledged classical performer. They were of the opinion that Yesudas brought in a cine music aesthetic to the classical stage and that diluted its essential purity.

If you were a little conservative in your approach, this would have certainly triggered some consternation. But it can be argued that Yesudas's approach helped widen the base and appeal of Carnatic music and gave it a more inclusive and agreeable image.

When Bollywood and South Indian films got going, the early talkies era music was filled with talent from the classical field. This trend continued till around the 1950s, when filmdom itself started throwing up its own skilled performers and musical artists.

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