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Veteran singer Mohammed Aziz passed away in Mumbai’s Nanavati Hosptial on Tuesday due to cardiac arrest. The celebrated singer was born on 2 July 1954, was an Indian playback singer in the Bollywood, Bengali and Odia film industries. As per latest reports,, Aziz breathed his last today after he was admitted to Nanavati hospital. It is also reported that the singer was in Kolkata last week and flew to Mumbai on Monday as he was not keeping well. Today, he breathed his last and his daughter Sana informed about Aziz leaving for the heavenly abode.
Mohammed Aziz has also performed stage shows in India and abroad, and has been nominated twice for best male playback singer award. Mohd. Aziz was very close to Laxmikant Pyarelal; After Laxmi-Pyare, his career went down and other music directors took to other singers such as Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan.
He had done playback singing for famous actors such as Amitabh Bachchcan, Govinda, Rishi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty and several others. In Bollywood, his duets with leading female singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Anuradha Paudwal and Kavita Krishnamurthy are immensely popular. The popular singer has sung close to 20 thousand songs in more than 10 different Indian languages. Ha has recorded hundreds of devotional Bhajans and Sufi songs as well.
