Yesudas - A person whom I admire!!

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K.J.Yesudas (Kadassery Joseph Yesudas) is a living legend in the history of Indian Classical music. No other musician or no other voice can be compared with this exceptional singer. He has the rare talent of singing 16 songs fluently and mellifluously in four different languages in a single day. Through K. J. Yesudas' 50,000 songs, Indian music got transported to another sublime level for common man's perception. Since Childhood Yesudas started to sing as soon as he started babbling the first words. His father was his first 'guru' in music and he joined the Music Academy in Thrippunithura and won a gold medal for music at a local competition in Fort Kochi at age seven. Yesudas' divine music was trained under Chembai Vaidynatha Bhagavatar till he became 34 years old.K. J Yesudas also trained in Hindusthani music and combined Carnatic and Hindusthani style in almost all his songs. Apart from Malayalam songs he sung for Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English films through his long career. His concert always attracted large audience and in his music concerts at Middle East he performs Arabic songs in Carnatic style. K.J Yesudas is the only singer who has the title Asthana Gayaka( Official Singer) of Kerala State. The greatful nation remembered to award him rightly when the Presidential awards for 1973 came. He was awarded with Padmashree award on that year and again awarded with Padma Bhusan award on 2002. The long list of awards attained by K.J Yesudas cannot be condensed here. However he is the only singer who got 50 awards only for his playback singing. However there is a life time music concert that still remain unfullfilled in this great legendary singer's mind. He wants to present his songs in front of Lord Krishna at Guruvayoor temple that has been denied to him by temple authorities due to his birth as a Christian. We can wish that earth born Gandharva can fulfill his greatest his desire through the transcending power of music.