Yesudas: I Like Mohd Rafi’s voice
Read the complete interview at http://www.chennaionline.com/chennaicitizen/2004/02kjyesudas.asp
South Indian singing sensation, Yesudas in one of his interviews posted on chennaionline.com today declared that:
I have worked with M S Viswanathan, Ilayaraja, Devarajan, Dhakshinamurthy, Baburaj… I like Mohammed Rafi’s voice. I got an opportunity to sing along with him but due to unavoidable circumstances it did not happen. He used to address me as his son, which made me feel proud. I have known Kishore Kumar also.
December 20th, 2011 at 11:18 am
Absolutely right. I watched lot of Interview of Dr KJ Yesudas. He mentioned that he is a great fan of Mohammed Rafi from his child hood and Mohammed Rafi is one of his role model and Mohammed Rafi is Yesudas’s favorite singer.
I heard a story that in the film ‘Tansen’, Raveendra Jain composed a classical song ‘shadajne paya’ which was originally made for Mohammed Rafi but Mohammed Rafi suggested Jain to give that classical song to Yesudas.
Also I listened a song sung buy Yesudas, Kishore kumar and Lata Mangeshkar all together.