The popular playback singer Andrew Kishore who recently passed away after a long struggle with cancer, had sung his first duet with the famous Sabina Yasmin. The diva of the Bangladesh music world shares her memories with Prothom Alo as she talks about her extraordinary bond with Andrew Kishore.
“This is too painful,” said Sabina Yasmin upon hearing the news of Andrew Kishore passing away. “Why did he have to leave us all so soon? I just can’t bear it.”
She said that Andrew Kishore had called her when he recently returned to Dhaka from Singapore where he had been undergoing treatment. He called her several times from Rajshahi too.
“The last time I met him was in Singapore when we held a concert there. I sang at the concert along with Mitali and Hadi bhai. Andrew joined in too,” she recalled.
She reminisced, “We had an extraordinary friendship. He was much younger than me, but we worked so much together, brought out so much good music together, we became extremely firm friends. We were friends and he was like a brother to me too.”
“The loss to the music works is irreparable,” said Sabina Yasmin, about the death of Andrew Kishore. “He had a very different style of his own, unique.”
Memories came tumbling in. “We toured so many places together, in the country and abroad. There are so many memories. He never took too much care of himself. When he returned to Dhaka from Singapore recently, I told him to consult a doctor here, but he went to Rajshahi. He just wouldn’t stay back in Dhaka.”