The Swaralaya Kairali Yesudas Award, usually referred to as Yesudas Award, is an award for music artists in recognition of their outstanding performance. The award is instituted jointly by Swaralaya, an organization that promotes music and Kairali Channel, based at Trivandrum, India. Awards have been given annually since 2000. K. J. Yesudas presents the awards at a Gandharva Sandhya on every January.
Swaralaya-Kairali-Yesudas awardees Year Swaralaya-Kairali-Yesudas award 2016 Vidyasagar 2012 M. Jayachandran 2011 M. G. Sreekumar 2010 Shreya Ghoshal 2009 Sujatha Mohan 2008 Kavita Krishnamurthy 2007 Shankar Mahadevan 2006 A.R. Rahman 2005 Sonu Nigam 2004 Hariharan 2003 K. S. Chithra 2002 Asha Bhosle 2001 S. P. Balasubrahmanyam 2000 P. Jayachandran
Special Jury awardees Year Special Jury award 2012 T. M. Soundararajan 2009 M. K. Arjunan 2008 M. S. Viswanathan 2007 V. Dakshinamoorthy 2006 K. Raghavan 2005 P. Susheela 2004 Santha P. Nair 2003 P. Leela 2002 Manna Dey 2001 S. Janaki 2000
Swaralaya-Kairali-Yesudas Legendary awardees Swaralaya-Kairali-Yesudas Legendary award was introduced in 2010 in order to honour the legends in music.
Year Swaralaya-Kairali-Yesudas Legendary award 2010 Lata Mangeshkar
See also Yesudas
External links Swaralaya Kairali Yesudas Award list Award 2008 Award 2008 Award 2007 Award 2006 Award 2005