Gopi Sundar : Scored from Background.

His passion for music started from his childhood. he started from tabla, when tabla's beats conquer's his heart, gopi sundar felt to say no to studies, but his parent's suggested him to continue and he studied till sslc. after finishing tenth, he travelled from edappally, kochi to chennai to make music his life. To know more about music, gopi sundar joined adyaar music college but he didn't completed it. he leaved all his studies behind.

              Thrissur's chakkamathatil suresh babu and livi's son gopisundar, who's zeal for music make his father suresh babu to take him to the music director Oussepachchan. Under the guidance of Oussepachchan, he learned many lesson's of music. Oussepachchan nurtures his talent, then he became assistant music director, there his journey continues twelve years of learning started from the age of 17 year. even today he tune the many songs of Oussepachchan. Gopi Sundar is now a well known keyboard programmer and He own's a studio in chennai named "Sensa Digital Work Studio." which kept him busy. After his jingle's which made him popular around the cinema circle made his parent felt about god's decision about gopisundar. chennai's all no.1 advertisement jingle's are composed by gopisundar.

         IN CINEMA.-- Roshan Andrew's Notebook is gopi sundar's first project as background musician. After that Big B, Flash, Sagar alias Jacky includes his list. Big B's background music gives a new touch and different feel to the malayalam cinema. he attains perfection with his talent. In Flash and Sagar alias Jacky he show's his talent as Music Director. Notebook to Ivide Swargamaanu are all his background score magic. Casanova and Anwar are his new projects. he had also worked in Hindi and Tamil cinema as well.

                                            

                                     Keep it Going..............

DEVASANGEETHAM.................

Five decades that has gone past his charismatic voice murmmering in our ears. He is celebrating his Seventieth Birthday on 10th january. For the film kalpadukkal, composed by M.B. Sreenivasan, young twenty one years old boy called yesudas recorded his first film song only in one take.

On 1940, 10 jan, Theatre artist and Musician,Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth elder son's birth became virtuous for them.

         There is no malayalee in this world who never heard his magnum opus voice. Even in Sabrimala, Lord shri Ayyappan wakes up with his Suprabhatam and go to the sleep with his Harivarasanam. Dasettan's touch on his malayalam language and his rendering style made every song a gem in a million.

 GANGAPRAVAHAM.

1961, November 14, when Dasettan charismatic voice recorded for a cinema called Kalpadukkal. After that there is till now 60,000 songs in the name of this Legend in different language includes Tamil, Kannada, Telugu or Hindi. In the malayalam cinema when dasettan gave his voice to Prem Nasir, Satyan, Madhu, it becames there own voice. His different adaptation of voice matched every decade of Heroes , even Mohanlal, Mammooty, Jayaram and upcoming youngsters also feel humbled when dassettan sang for them.

After Kalpadukkal, Dassettan sang the song for a film called Bhagyjathakam, it is the song "Adhyathekanmani" (p bhaskaran and baburaaj team) and for the film Neethya Kanyakeyeele the song is "kaneermuthumayee"(vayalar and devarajan team).

CARNATIC MUSIC.

At 70 and 80,s Malayalees who doesn't know much about carnatic music feel charmed by Dassettan's kacheries. Dassettan has the big role to popularize carnatic among people. Dassettan's gandharvaganam, kacheries became very popular among people. Mohanam, Shankarabharanam, Kalyani, are quite popular among people's. Through kacheries dassettan introduced kankangi, ratnangi, like very few ragams became very evident in many kacheries. Dassettan learned his classical from childhood as an 5 year old boy from his father Augustine joseph was his first mentor.After that Kochi and Chennai became his destiny, there dassettan learned classical music from Kunjan velu ashaan, P.X.Joseph, Shivaraman Nair, Raman Kutty Bhagavathar, K.R. Kumaraswamy, Shemakutty Sreenivas Iyer, Chambii Vaidyanath Bhagavathar, Pallavi narsimahachar.

Malayalam Language from the Heart.

Whether it is "Pramdavanam",Gopikavasantham from the His Highness Abdullah. Harimurali ravam from the movie "Aaram Thampuran" shows his callibre to the Malayalam language.

 Awards.

National award for Best Playback Singer -------   Seven times.

After 1970, 23 times Yesudas won Kerala State Award.

In 1987, Yesudas requested State Government not to nominate his name in the Kerala State Award, to promote new singers.

PADMASHREE.(1977.), PADMABHUSHAN.(2001.).

Yesudas's life is without his music, In today's Scenario he finds his soulful voice to represent people's problem.

                                         GANGANDHARVANE  PRANAMAM........