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K J Yesudas

K J Yesudas is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of S. Janaki, Naushad and Mohammed Rafi. Those roots explain a lot about how K J Yesudas arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as S. Janaki, S.P. Balasubramaniam, Haricharan, Sadhana Sargam and Harish Raghavendra, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Vijay, A.R. Rahman and Chitra, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around K J Yesudas, reaching back through S. Janaki and forward to Vijay. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas 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 is the most famous cultural and entertainment industry icon of Kerala from the modern era. In a career spanning six decades, 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. He is referred to by the epithet Gaanagandharvan in reverence for his sweet, ethereal voice. Yesudas holds the world record for singing and recording 16 new songs in different languages in a single day. He has also composed a number of Malayalam film songs during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
K J YesudasS. JanakiNaushadMohammed RafiVijayA.R. RahmanChitraS. JanakiS.P. BalasubramaniamHaricharanSadhana SargamHarish RaghavendraRoop Kumar RathodShweta MohanReena Bhardwaj

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K J Yesudas connections

K J Yesudas grew out of S. Janaki, Naushad and Mohammed Rafi, shares an orbit with S. Janaki, S.P. Balasubramaniam, Haricharan and Sadhana Sargam, went on to shape Vijay, A.R. Rahman and Chitra. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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