Vijay Yesudas refuted baseless reports about his father being admitted in a hospital at Chennai. Vijay clarified that his father is healthy and safe at their home in the US. The singer turned 85 on January 10th and for the fifth year in succession, missed his date with the famed Kollur Mookambika temple in Mangalore in Karnataka. Since the Covid pandemic stuck, Yesud as has been in Dallas, USA. He has not been able to take part in the musical tribute at the temple, which has been a practice of him and his family for close to four decades. In a music career extending to over six decades now, he has recorded over 80,000 songs in over 14 languages, including Arabic, Latin and Russian. In his long singing career, the singer is known for his characteristic attire: a white kurta and a white dhoti, and in the recent years, He has been sporting a flowing white beard too. In January this year, he paid glowing tributes to his long time fellow singer P.Jayachandran who passed away and remembered on how as both of them as school students took part to the first ever School Youth Festival in 1958.
