
Indian Bollywood music composer and singer Bappi Lahiri poses all through the Christmas and New 12 months’s Bollywood Disco Carnival in Mumbai in December 2015.
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Indian Bollywood songs composer and singer Bappi Lahiri poses through the Xmas and New 12 months’s Bollywood Disco Carnival in Mumbai in December 2015.
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The king is ineffective. The king of Bollywood disco, that’s.
Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri died in India late Tuesday evening. He was 69.
Lahiri famously introduced a disco vibe to India’s greatest film area. He composed dozens of hits within the Seventies and ’80s — which appeared in a number of finest Bollywood flicks.
He was additionally acknowledged for flashy trend. Lahiri, a considerable supporter of Elvis, was virtually by no means photographed with out his signature gold chains and sun shades.
The star died in a single day in a Mumbai hospital. He skilled survived COVID-19 last 12 months however had quite a few different nicely being points.

Key Minister Narendra Modi tweeted his condolences, indicating Lahiri’s “energetic mom nature can be skipped by anybody.”
This story at first appeared within the Morning Version dwell weblog.