Yesudas Singing Jab Deep Jale Aana live for the BBC at Pebble Mill.
Singing legend K.J. Yesudas will celebrate his golden jubilee as a singer Nov 14 as it was on this day half-a-century ago that he recorded his first song which marked his arrival in the film industry.
He has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times, the most by any Indian singer, and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer more than thirty times by the Governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal. In 2002, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for his contributions towards the arts.
He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri.
Some of his popular Hindi numbers are "Surmayee Ankhiyon Mein", "Dil Ke Tukde Tukde Karke", "Jaaneman Tere Do Nayan".
Some Hits of Yesudas (Hindi)
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