He frequently did the role of a cultural ambassador of India through his numerable performances abroad by promoting Indian Music. In his music concerts in the Middle East he sings Arabic songs in the Carnatic style. In 2001 he sang for album Ahimsa in Sanskrit, Latin and English and in a mix of styles including New-Age and Carnatic. In 1965, he was invited by the Soviet Union government to perform at music concerts in various cities in the USSR and also sang a Russian song over Radio Kazakhstan. Yesudas has performed in many major cities around the world. In 2006, he sang 16 film songs in four South Indian languages on the same day at AVM Studio, Chennai. He has bagged seven National Film Awards for the best singer in the Indian film industry which is a record no singer has equalled, let alone surpassed.
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He has sung many evergreen Hindi film songs for many popular music directors including Ravindra Jain, Bappi Lahiri, Khayyam, Rajkamal and Salil Chowdhury Almost all of the Hindi movie songs that he sang are popular even today. He has sung Hindi songs for many leading actors in Hindi cinema including Amitabh Bachchan, Amol Palekar, Jeetendra and so on. The first Hindi song was for the movie 'Jai Jawan Jai Kissan' (1971), but the first released movie was 'Chhoti Si Baat'. Yesudas began his career in playback singing in the Malayalam movie Kaalpadukal and Kollywood movies in the early '60s (He sang for 'Bommai' first (Music : K.Balachandar), but the first released movie was 'Konjum Kumari'(Music : Veda))and by '70s he entered Bollywood. He has recorded more than 55,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English. His most famous songs which I love, are. From that first day, I became a big fan of him. That song was "Madhuban khusboo deta hai. I went to his room & saw that sir was not there. I heard a very heavy & sweet voice coming out from his room. I was going for Math tuition to Santosh Sir (Mr Santosh Kumar Nayak). I couldn't remember the exact year when I know about this great singer.