Background
Vijay is the son of acclaimed singer K. J. Yesudas.
Vijay is the son of acclaimed singer K. J. Yesudas.
Vijay"s known for his work predominantly in the South Indian film industry, especially Malayalam and Tamil films as well as in other Indian languages such as Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi. Vijay made his debut as a singer with the Malayalam film Millennium Stars (2000). He"s known for his collaboration with music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja in Tamil cinema.
Vijay Yesudas Kattassery was born on 23 March 1979 in Madras (now Chennai) to singer K. J. Yesudas and Prabha.
He is the second son in the family, having an elder brother named Vinod and a younger one, Vishal. He is the grandson of stage singer Augustine Joseph.
He studied in Chennai till his 9th grade and left for the United States for further studies. He graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor in music
V Vijay Yesudas started learning Carnatic music in the early 2000s.
He is popular for songs sung under composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. He has collaborated with various other composers such as Dakshinamoorthy Swami, Ilaiyaraja, Arkansas Rahman, Raveendran, Hamsalekha, Deva, Ouseppachan, Vidyasagar, Mani Sharma, Keeravani, and Mohan Sitara along with the new generation composers such as Karthik Raja, M. Jayachandran, Sabesh Murali, Harris Jayaraj, G.V.Prakash, Doctorate. Imman, Srikanth Deva, and Deepak Development Vijay"s latest song "Malare" which he sung for the superhit move Premam went viral among young audiences.
The song was reshared countless times soon after its video release.
Vijay is a prominent singer in Malayalam and Tamil. He has sung 178 Malayalam and 118 Tamil songs.