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This man has his 79th birthday today. Would there be any other human being than him whoâd have influenced and celebrated the moods and moments of at least 3 generations of Malayalees ever?
A humble pictorial thread. From Ravi Menonâs book âAthishayaraagamââ. #KJYesudas
A humble pictorial thread. From Ravi Menonâs book âAthishayaraagamââ. #KJYesudas
With his father Augustine Joseph.
A famous photograph. Heâs seen singing in one of those early School Youth Festivals of â50âs.
Any idea whoâs playing Mridangam by his side?
P. Jayachandran!
Any idea whoâs playing Mridangam by his side?
P. Jayachandran!
âPaavanaguru Pavanapuraadheesham....â
With Chembai.
With Chembai.
One of those old Gaanamela days...
Raghavan. Thoppil Bhasi.
With singer Hemalatha, and the incredibly talented Ravindra Jain.
Remember âJab deep jale aanaa..â? Remember those classics like âThaalippoo peelippoo...â and Kaalidasante Kavya bhaavanaye..âfrom âSujathaâ?
He was a blind man.
Remember âJab deep jale aanaa..â? Remember those classics like âThaalippoo peelippoo...â and Kaalidasante Kavya bhaavanaye..âfrom âSujathaâ?
He was a blind man.
K. Raghavan, Brahmanandan, and Selma George (wife of K. G. George) with him...
With K. Raghavan. Duo that made things like âSyaama sundara pushpame...â
With Madhu, music director Shyam (Samuel Joseph, his actual name), and Baby Sujatha...
With Lakshmi and Jayabharathi. Timeless beauties, right??
With Kotewswara Rao and team. Heâs regarded as a sound engineering genius. Interesting part is, he was partially deaf....
Doing a cameo in âAchaaniâ. Song, âEnte Swapnathin Thamarappoykayil...â
Marriage day. With Prabha, his sis Jayamma, and mom Elizabeth..
âAlliyaambal kadavilannaraykku vellam.....â
A sadya at Tharangini studio. With the (famous) recordist Karunakaran...
Man behind a zillion love stories...
âDevee...nin chiriyil...â
With A.T. Ummar.
With A.T. Ummar.
âEvide kaattinu sugandham...â With the legendary Salil Chowdhury...
By the side of father who just left him and family. On Feb 3, 1965.
He has later said that Rs. 800 had to be paid to that clinic at Madras to get the dead body. He was helpless. And that it was Bhaskaran master who helped him that day.
He has later said that Rs. 800 had to be paid to that clinic at Madras to get the dead body. He was helpless. And that it was Bhaskaran master who helped him that day.
He had to wait for 8 long years to start building his own team...
The ultimate musical triumvirate in Malayalam. Vayalar, Devarajan. Yesudas.
With Jayachandran, Susheela, and L. R. Eswari.
With Jayachandran and P. Bhaskaran..
With Arjunan Master, A.T. Ummar, and Raghavan Master...
With Navodaya Appachan...
With Sreekumaran Thampi and Salil Chowdhury.
(Whoâs the best lyricist we ever had? Vayalar, ONV, or Thampi..?)
(Whoâs the best lyricist we ever had? Vayalar, ONV, or Thampi..?)
Raman Nambiath. A later pic. He was the very first producer who gave a chance for Das to sing in a film. âKaalppadukalâ had music by M.B. Sreenivasan.
Kochu Sujatha...(Ippo valiya Sujatha...)
With Dakshinamoorthy and Sreekumaran Thanpi...
Those gems like âChandrikayilaliyunnu chamdrakaantham...â Sigh....
Those gems like âChandrikayilaliyunnu chamdrakaantham...â Sigh....
A ganamela at Kanakakkunnu Palace...
Combinations, and how!
Another evergreen era. Bharathan, Johnson, Janaki...
With M.K. Arjunan.
Yes. âPaadaatha veenayum paadum...â
Yes. âPaadaatha veenayum paadum...â
Sadya with utmost Vrutha Shudhhi. Tharangini Studios...
With L-P. (Laxmikanth Pyarelal).
When saakshaal Leader visited Tharangini...
His first music director. M. B. Sreenivasan was another maestro. Remember those gems from films like Yavanika?
A. A.Raj, who introduced him in Bollywood...
T. K. R. Bhadran. The man behind the immortal Tharangini-Ayyappa Devotional songs. What a pen!
With Baburaj. Unforgettably mesmeric Kozhikode...
With Naushad.
âMaanasanilayil...â
âMaanasanilayil...â
To conclude, hereâs wishing another million songs from him. Or more..
