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K. J. Yesudas

1940 - Today

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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 history of Indian music and a cultural icon of Kerala. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of K. J. Yesudas has received more than 3,844,784 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). K. J. Yesudas is the 1,552nd most popular singer (down from 1,470th in 2019), the 630th most popular biography from India (down from 591st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Singer.

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  • 3.8M

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  • 43.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

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  • 1.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, K. J. Yesudas ranks 1,552 out of 3,528Before him are Nayeon, Joe Jonas, Dan Reynolds, Taeyeon, Olga Jackowska, and Alaska. After him are Tennessee Ernie Ford, Garth Brooks, Ricardo Arjona, Gerard Joling, Zazie, and Mika Nakashima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, K. J. Yesudas ranks 445Before him are Mike Beuttler, Thomas Köhler, Nicolae Martinescu, Eladio Silvestre, Dmitri Prigov, and Mary Ellen Mark. After him are James Gammon, Luis Ubiña, Alberto Fouilloux, Mariette Hartley, Edmund White, and Jaak Lipso.

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In India

Among people born in India, K. J. Yesudas ranks 630 out of 1,493Before him are Anna Chandy (1905), The Great Gama (1878), Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904), Ismail Merchant (1936), Asha Parekh (1942), and Ardeshir Irani (1886). After him are Veerappan (1952), Zeenat Aman (1951), Guru Dutt (1925), Trilok Gurtu (1951), Feroz Khan (1939), and Amarinder Singh (1942).

Among SINGERS In India

Among singers born in India, K. J. Yesudas ranks 17Before him are Peter Sarstedt (1941), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), Girija Devi (1929), Manna Dey (1919), Usha Mangeshkar (1935), and Udit Narayan (1955). After him are Jasraj (1930), Jagjit Singh (1941), Bappi Lahiri (1952), Hemanta Mukherjee (1920), Begum Akhtar (1914), and Anuradha Paudwal (1954).