He is surely an all-rounder! KS Chithra Birthday: 5 Best Songs Of This National Award-Winning Playback Singer! In fact the song is even composed by Yesudas himself. Another popular song associated with the singer is the " Rasoole Nin Kanivaale" from the 1981 film Sanchari that praises Allah. Listening to the track in Yesudas' voice somehow manages to transport the devotee to another plane and leaves him or her there in a peaceful mood. But the song that is the most most famous and the most associated with him is singing the traditional Ayyappan lullaby song, that was originally written in 1923 (as per certain records) by Kumbakudi Kulathur Iyer. Yesudas is the real gandharvan of our times!Įven though he is a born Christian, KJ Yesudas has sung so many Hindu devotional songs. And Yesudas' amazing dulcet tones makes this song so perfect that even our spirits raise to heaven every time I hear this song. In this Padmarajan film, Nitish Bharadwaj was playing a gandharvan, and therefore his singing needs to be like that. But Yesudas sung it with such finesse, tackling the myriad of raagas with dexterity that, as the story goes, an impressed composer had claimed that if he ever gained eyesight, the one man he wanted to see was Das ettan! After listening to this song, we know why! Story has it that the legendary composer, late Ravindra Jain was finding it nearly impossible to get a singer to sing this difficult track. However, a couple of songs made their way to the internet and his fans were just blown away. Yesudas has supposedly given one of his best works in a Hindi film that never got released.
Starting this list with a Hindi song, because this one's really special, and yet unusual. Yesudas had also tried his hand at composing songs, and once upon a time, he had even tried his hand at acting! In 2021, he would complete 60 years in cinema, which would make his 81st birthday that falls on January 10 very, very special! So why not look back at his amazing discography and choose some songs that stand out for being tough, and yet the legend pulled it off as if it was a walk in the park? KJ Yesudas Birthday Special: 8 Melodious Hindi Songs of the Legendary Singer That You Need to Listen to Right Now! Having made his debut in 1961 as a playback singer, he has sung over 50,000 songs in multiple languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, as well as in Bengali, Odia, Arabic, English, and Russian! And yes, even in Latin too! Yesudas has won multiple honours in various states, apart from eight National Awards and also being conferred Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. Every Malayalam music lover swears by him, and for decades, there was nearly not a single album in Malayalam cinema that didn't feature a Yesudas song.