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K. J. Yesudas

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Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (/jeːʃud̪aːs/; born 10 January 1940) is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical, devotional and film songs. He is widely considered one of the greatest singers in the world and top most in the history of Indian music and a cultural icon of Kerala. Yesudas holds the largest number of world records in the music field. Yesudas is estimated to have recorded more than 50,000 songs in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Tulu, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Marathi as well as Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian, in a career spanning six decades and his voice is the most recorded singer's voice in the world He is often referred to as Gaanagandharvan (transl. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. K. J. Yesudas is the 1,696th most popular singer (down from 1,157th in 2019), the 788th most popular biography from India (down from 552nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, K. J. Yesudas ranks 1,696 out of 4,381. Before him are António Calvário, Kim Jae-joong, Paulo de Carvalho, Nathalie Stutzmann, Laura Alonso, and Jack Teagarden. After him are Amina Annabi, Kesha, Sevdaliza, George Thorogood, Regina Resnik, and Allan Clarke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, K. J. Yesudas ranks 491. Before him are Yvonne Blake, Steve Swallow, James Gammon, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Alexei Panshin, and Jack Thompson. After him are Thomas Köhler, Chuck Mangione, Niilo Halonen, Erik Hartsuiker, Aristides Royo, and Hasan Muratović.

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In India

Among people born in India, K. J. Yesudas ranks 788 out of 1,861. Before him are Muiz ud din Bahram (null), Zeenat Aman (1951), Aruna Irani (1946), Anna Chandy (1905), Bachendri Pal (1954), and Tanishaa Mukerji (1978). After him are J. P. Nadda (1960), Jyothika (1977), Parineeti Chopra (1988), Rolf Edling (1943), Guru Dutt (1925), and Dwarkanath Tagore (1794).

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Among SINGERS In India

Among singers born in India, K. J. Yesudas ranks 17. Before him are Jasraj (1930), S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946), Manna Dey (1919), Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Hemanta Mukherjee (1920), and Girija Devi (1929). After him are Udit Narayan (1955), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), Jagjit Singh (1941), Parveen Sultana (1950), Peter Sarstedt (1941), and Basanti Bisht (1953).

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