Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian playback singer who has sung more than 40,000 songs in several languages, including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English. His voice lends itself well to both Indian classical, devotional and popular songs.

Yesudas was born to classical musician and stage actor Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth in Fort Kochi on 10 January, 1940.