Andrew Kishore no more

Bangladesh's renowned playback singer Andrew Kishore, who had been battling cancer for months, has died.

He breathed his last at his home town Rajshahi around 6:55pm on Monday.

The singer recently returned home from Singapore after months of treatment there. Andrew Kishore was taken to Singapore for treatment on 9 September last year. He was diagnosed there with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a form of blood cancer. His treatment started at the Singapore General Hospital.

Andrew Kishore was born on 4 November in 1955 in Rajshahi and grew up up there. He later came to the capital city and established himself as a famous singer.

The artiste, called as ‘playback king’ of Bangla music, studied at the University of Rajshahi.

The singer entered the film industry with the song ‘Achinpurer rajkumari nei je tar keu’ composed by Alam Khan for the film ‘Mail Train’ in 1977. The artiste recorded thousands of songs for hundreds of films as a playback singer.

His famous songs include 'Jibaner galpo achhe baki olpo', 'Amar shara deho kheyo go mati', 'Dak diyachhen doyal amare', 'Bhalobese gelam shudhu', 'Amar buker moddhey khaney', 'Amar babar mukhey prothom jedin' and 'Bhengechhe pinjore', among many others.