Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian musician and film playback singer. Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional and cinematic songs. He has recorded more than 80,000 songs in a number of Indian languages, including Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu as well as Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian, during a career spanning more than five decades.
Yesudas won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times, the Filmfare Awards five times, and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer forty-three times, including awards given by the state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1977, the Padma Bhushan in 2002, and the Padma Vibhushan (second-highest civilian award) in 2017 by the Government of India for his contributions towards the arts. In 2011 Yesudas was honoured with the CNN-IBN outstanding achievement award having recorded over 20,000 songs in a five-decade career. In 2006, he sang 16 film songs in four South Indian languages on the same day at AVM Studio, Chennai.
National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer a record 7 times by the Government of India.
Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer a record 25 times for the best playback singer by the Government of Kerala.
Tamil Nadu State Film Awards 5 times for the best playback singer by the Government of Tamil Nadu.
Andhra Pradesh State Film Awards 4 times for the best playback singer by the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Anandalok Best Male Playback Award 1 time for the best playback singer by the Government of West Bengal.
J. C. Daniel Award from Government of Kerala
Sangeetha Kalasikhamani, 2002 by The Indian Fine arts Society, Chennai
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