We Have to Know These Things About the Legendary Yesudas Garu!

Yesudas gopatanam gurinchi maa matalu kante ee awards ekkuva cheptayi. Wishing yesudas garu a very happy birthday.



Yesudas has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times (the most by any Indian singer), 5 Filmfare Awards and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer 43 times



He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1975 and the Padma Bhushan in 2002 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.



In 1965, he was invited by the Soviet Union government to perform at music concerts in various cities in the USSR and also sang a Russian song over Radio Kazakhstan.

Yesudas became one of the senate members in the International Parliament for Safety and Peace.







On 14 November 1999, Yesudas was presented with an honorary award byUNESCOfor"Outstanding Achievements in Music and Peace"

In 1971, during the Indo-Pakistani War, Yesudas travelled all around Kerala with his musical troupe to raise funds for the Indian prime minister's National Defense Fund.

Yesudas has the rare feat of performing the classical concert for 36 times in the 36-year-old Soorya Music festival organised bySoorya Krishnamoorthy. This is one among his concerts which is highly followed by serious musical lovers and often rated as the most popular among his concerts in India.

After winning the Kerala State Award for Best Playback singer on numerous occasions, he asked that he be ruled out of contention so as to give his peers and newcomers a chance of winning the award. Despite his request, he wasstill given this award several times in the following years.

Harivarasanam, a devotional song musical version composed byG. Devarajan, recited before closing the temple at Sabarimalawas sung by Yesudas. Though there have been many different renditions of this song by many different renowned singers,Sabarimalabofficially uses Yesudas' voice for Harivarasanam every day.
        

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