KJ Yesudas

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Dr. Kattassery Joseph Yesudas or Yesudas (Malayalam: കാട്ടശ്ശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ്), is an Indian classical musician and a playback singer. He has won the National Award for the best male playback singer seven times, the most by any singer. Yesudas sings Indian classical music, devotional and popular songs. He has recorded more than 40,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English through his long career. He has been singing for most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri.He also composed number of Malayalam Film songs in 70's and 80's.He is fondly called 'Gana Gandharvan'.