Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 27 (IANS) Vijay Yesudas the son of legendary singer K.J. Yesudas refuted baseless reports about his father being admitted in a hospital at Chennai.
After the news went viral on social media, Vijay clarified that his father is healthy and safe at their home in the US.
Yesudas turned 85 on January 10th and for the fifth year in succession, missed his date with the famed Kollur Mookambika temple in Mangalore in Karnataka. Since the Covid pandemic stuck, Yesudas has been in Dallas, USA. Hence, he has not been able to take part in the musical tribute at the temple, which has been a practice of him and his family for close to four decades, when they arrive at the temple on his birthday and sings hymns. This temple is a very revered place among performers in the music and art.
In a music career extending to over six decades now, he has recorded over 80,000 songs in over 14 languages, including Arabic, Latin and Russian. Yesudas, over the years, has won a record eight national awards, and a record 25 state awards. The singer has also been conferred the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan.
Apart from his songs, the singer is known for his characteristic attire: a white kurta and a white dhoti, and in the recent years, he has been sporting a flowing white beard too. Ever since he has moved base to the US, on his birthday he joins online and takes part in the celebrations which is organized here by his close friends and well wishers. In his long singing career, Yesudas has also donned the grease paint and has acted in a few films too. In January this year
Yesudas paid glowing tributes to his long time fellow singer P.Jayachandran who passed away and remembered on how as both of them as school students took part in the first ever School Youth Festival in 1958.
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