MUMBAI: Legendary playback singer Yesudas, known for the popular tracks like ‘Gori tera gaon bada pyara’ , turned 70 on 10 January 2010.
As a regular practice, the versatile singer paid obeisance with his family at the Kollur Mookambika temple in his home state Kerala
With more than 40,000 film songs in several languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English, in his kitty, Yesudas’ journey in the world of music continues. Yesudas’ singing career began in 1961, through which he bagged seven National Film Awards for best singer in the Indian film industry and five of the national awards come for singing in Malayalam films. His other achievement includes singing 16 film songs in four South Indian languages on a single day at a studio in Chennai Besides Indian languages, Yesudas has also sung in Russian language and was invited by the Soviet Union government to perform at music concerts in over Radio Kazakhstan.
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Endowed with a ‘divine’ voice and a penchant for hard work, it was a triumphant journey for Yesudas, winning scores of accolades, including the coveted Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. On Nov 14, 1999, Yesudas was presented with an honorary award by Unesco for ‘Outstanding Achievements in Music and Peace’ at the ‘Music for Peace’ event in Paris. Eminent music composer Ravindra Jain, who introduced Yesudas in Hindi films, had once said that if ever he got back his vision, the first person he would wish to see is Yesudas – the man with the golden voice.
