Kattassery Joseph Yesudas ( born 10 January 1940) is an Indian singer. Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 70,000 songs[not in citation given] in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri.