Dhaka, May 7 – Renowned singer Subir Nandi died at a hospital in Singapore early Tuesday. He was 66.
He breathed his last around
His body will be brought to Dhaka on Wednesday morning by a Regent Airways flight scheduled to land at
Subir’s body will first be taken to his residence in Green Road and then to the Central Shaheed Minar to allow people to pay their last respects.
It will be later taken to
The Ekushey Padak winner was taken to Singapore on April 30 at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s direction, two weeks after he was admitted to Combined Military Hospital following a heart attack.
Born in 1953 in Sylhet, Subir spent his childhood in Dhaka and Kolkata. His father was a doctor and medical officer at Teliapara Tea Estate.
Subir and his nine siblings
Since then, he sang notable songs like “Tumi Emoni Jaal Petecho Shongshare”
In a career spanning over four decades, Subir claimed to have sung 2,000 film songs – the second-highest by any male singer after Andrew Kishore. In 1994, he rendered songs at the House of Commons.
Subir Nandi won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer five times for ‘Mahanayak’ (1984), ‘Shuvoda’ (1986), ‘Srabon Megher Din’ (1999), ‘Megher Pore Megh’ (2004) and ‘Mohua Sundori’ (2015).
His illustrious career also earned him the Ekushey Padak, Bangladesh’s second-highest civilian award, in 2019.
President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina