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| Image on right : Hemant Mukherjee above, Geeta Dutt, Sandhya Mukherjee & Lata Mangeshkar. |
On Tuesday, golden era's legendary singer 'Gitashree' Sandhya Mukhopadhyay passed away at the age of 90 as she had been suffering from breathing issues since Jan 26.
Recently she had also suffered a fall in the washroom apart from her lung ailment. Sandhya ji was shifted to SSKM Hospital on 27th Jan after the city administration put in place a green corridor. She was admitted to the hospital’s Woodburn ward and a medical board was set up to supervise her treatment.
The iconic artist had recently rejected the Padma Shree award by the Centre, after her daughter Soumi Sengupta opined, ''At the age of 90, with a singing career spanning over about eight decades, being chosen for Padma Shri is demeaning for a singer of her stature. Padma Shri is more deserving for a junior artiste, not `Gitasree' Sandhya Mukherjee. Her family and all the lovers of her songs feel."
She was the last surviving singer of the golden era of modern Bengali & Hindi music. Known for her classical and semi-classical singing prowess, Gitashree Sandhya Mukherjee had worked with some of the most prominent artists of the industry with the likes of S.D.Burman, Madan Mohan, Naushad, Anil Biswas and Salil Chaudhury.
Tributes have started to pour in from everywhere.
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee pays her tribute to the fallen artist tweeting, "Deeply saddened that Geetashree Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, the queen of melody in Bengal, is no more. Her departure creates an eternal void in our world of music and in the hearts of millions of her followers here and in the diaspora."
"I used to look upto her as my elder sister and this is a grave personal loss to me. She used to be the moving spirit in our Sangeet Akademi and we had conferred upon her Bangabibhushan( 2011), Sangeet Mahasamman ( 2012) etc." tweeted Banerjee.
We at the Su-Niti News bow down to the heavenly voiced stalwart.
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