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Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (Malayalam: കാട്ടശ്ശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ്; 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. He is fondly called Gana Gandharvan (English: The Celestial Singer). He has...

The talented son of the illustrious maestro, Padmashree Dr. K.J Yesudas, Vijey has made his mark as a singer who can mesmerise the audience with his rich resonant voice that takes listeners to a blissful trance. The tender age of 9 saw his first public performance with his father. He started his playback career with "Millennium Stars" and continues to live up to the unrivalled reputation of his legendary father. .