1940 - Today
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical, devotional and film songs. Yesudas is estimated to have recorded more than 50,000 songs in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Marathi as well as Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian, in a career spanning six decades. He is often referred to as Gaanagandharvan (transl. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of K. J. Yesudas has received more than 3,054,398 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). K. J. Yesudas is the 1,473rd most popular singer (up from 1,543rd in 2019), the 591st most popular biography from India (down from 525th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Indian Singer.
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Among singers, K. J. Yesudas ranks 1,473 out of 3,541. Before him are Daniel Powter, Chris Fehn, Jasraj, Carlos Mendes, Marty Robbins, and Ewan MacColl. After him are Anahí, Gilda, Don Dokken, Tim "Ripper" Owens, Giuseppe De Luca, and Frederica von Stade.
1971 - Present
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,467
1973 - Present
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 1,468
1930 - 2020
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,469
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 1,470
1925 - 1982
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 1,471
1915 - 1989
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 1,472
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,473
1983 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,474
1961 - 1996
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 1,475
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 1,476
1967 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 1,477
1876 - 1950
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 1,478
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 1,479
Among people born in 1940, K. J. Yesudas ranks 409. Before him are Berit Mørdre, Leila Ahmed, Apolo Nsibambi, Georges Carnus, Mariette Hartley, and Gary Kurtz. After him are John Esposito, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Rinnat Safin, Edmund White, Daniel J. Travanti, and Jean-Claude Piumi.
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 403
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 404
1940 - 2019
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 405
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 406
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 407
1940 - 2018
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 408
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 409
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 410
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 411
1940 - 2014
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 412
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 413
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 414
1940 - 1996
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 415
Among people born in India, K. J. Yesudas ranks 591 out of 1,227. Before him are Zakir Hussain (1951), Subhash Kak (1947), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), Bachendri Pal (1954), Jasraj (1930), and Shatrughan Sinha (1945). After him are Rambhadracharya (1950), Jagdish Bhagwati (1934), Saroj Khan (1948), Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904), C. N. R. Rao (1934), and R. D. Burman (1939).
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 585
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 586
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 587
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 588
1930 - 2020
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 589
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 590
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 591
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 592
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 593
1948 - 2020
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 594
1904 - 1986
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 595
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 596
1939 - 1994
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 597
Among singers born in India, K. J. Yesudas ranks 18. Before him are Peter Sarstedt (1941), Girija Devi (1929), Jagjit Singh (1941), Gangubai Hangal (1913), S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946), and Jasraj (1930). After him are Udit Narayan (1955), Usha Mangeshkar (1935), Begum Akhtar (1914), Mahendra Kapoor (1934), Anuradha Paudwal (1954), and Daler Mehndi (1967).
1941 - 2017
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 12
1929 - 2017
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 13
1941 - 2011
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 14
1913 - 2009
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 15
1946 - 2020
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 16
1930 - 2020
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 17
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 18
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 19
1935 - Present
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 20
1914 - 1974
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 21
1934 - 2008
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 22
1954 - Present
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 23
1967 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 24