Neyyattinkara Vasudevan (1940–13 May 2008) was a Carnatic music vocalist from Kerala in south India.

[1] The Padmasree-winning Carnatic vocalist and disciple of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and Ramnad Krishnan, he combined tradition and innovation in his widely acclaimed career.

Vasudevan is famous as being one of the first from the Dalit community to excel in the field which was previously the preserve of the upper castes.

[2] Vasudevan born in a poor Dalit family, in a village near Neyyattinkara in southern Travancore.

[3] He worked as assistant professor at the RLV College of Music, Thrippunithura, for nearly a decade before joining All India Radio as an A-grade staff vocalist in 1974.