Yesudas to get lifetime achievement award
Yesudas to get lifetime achievement award
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Singer K J Yesudas will never become the Ganagandharvan, at least officially, but he is to get a lifetime ac..

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Singer K J Yesudas will never become the ‘Ganagandharvan,’ at least officially, but he is to get a lifetime achievement award instead.Music lovers have for long honoured Yesudas as the ‘Ganagandharvan,’ but giving the honorific title an official sanction would be a next to impossible job, according to Cultural Affairs Minister K C Joseph.Joseph said this in the Assembly in response to a suggestion by Hibi Eden that the government should make official the title ‘Ganagandharvan’ to honour the singer on the 50th anniversary of his recording career in November.“November marks the 50th anniversary of the recording of ‘Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham,’ the first song by Yesudas for the film ‘Kaalpadukal’. “It was Mahakavi G Sankara Kurup who first called him ‘Ganagandharvan’,’’ Hibi said.The Cultural Affairs Minister said that the Constitution prohibits the conferring of such titles on individuals.Article 18 of the Constitution deals with Abolition of titles and it says “No title, not being a military or academic distinction, shall be conferred by the state.” Although in this regard the State Government has limitations, it planned to confer a lifetime achievement award on the singer, Joseph said.

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