Real name: Kattassery Joseph Yesudas

Effective period / Period of releases: 1975 - 2001

Dr. K. J. Yesudas, born 10 January 1940 in Kochi (Kerala State), India, is an classical musician and playback singer.
Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. 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 (English: The Celestial Singer).
He was awarded Padma Shri in 1975 and Padma Bhushan in 2002 by the Government of India for his contributions to the arts
In 2011 Yesudas was honoured with the CNN-IBN outstanding achievement award for being India's celestial singer having recorded over 50,000 songs in a five-decade career