 |
| Bhupen Hazarika |
Popular musicians, singers and cultural Bhupen Hazharika have died after prolonged illness. He was 86. Dada Saheb Falke Award winner Hazharika was being treated at a hospital in Mumbai.
Jayanta Narayan Saha media in charge of the hospital said, "at evening many parts of the body stopped working,after four and a half hours she was dead."
Hazharika had trouble breathing, the both kidney was damaged and was placed on dialysis.
Hazarika was best known for his folk songs and ballads, sung in a number of Indian languages, but he also sang and wrote music for hundreds of films.
He was known as the Bard of Brahmaputra after the river flowing through his native Assam state in eastern India.
"As a child, I grew up listening to tribal music - its rhythm saw me developing an inclination towards singing," he said in an interview.
"Perhaps, I inherited my singing skills from my mother, who sang lullabies to me." he said.
He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Indian cinema's highest honour, for his contribution to film music.
He had a PhD in communication from Columbia University in New York.
Jayanta Narayan Saha media in charge of the hospital said, "at evening many parts of the body stopped working,after four and a half hours she was dead."
Hazharika had trouble breathing, the both kidney was damaged and was placed on dialysis.
Hazarika was best known for his folk songs and ballads, sung in a number of Indian languages, but he also sang and wrote music for hundreds of films.
He was known as the Bard of Brahmaputra after the river flowing through his native Assam state in eastern India.
"As a child, I grew up listening to tribal music - its rhythm saw me developing an inclination towards singing," he said in an interview.
"Perhaps, I inherited my singing skills from my mother, who sang lullabies to me." he said.
He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Indian cinema's highest honour, for his contribution to film music.
He had a PhD in communication from Columbia University in New York.
News by BBC
Read current news at http://bbc-cnn-worldnews.blogspot.com
