An ambulance decorated with flowers and a picture of KK carrying the singer’s body to the crematorium.
Mumbai:
Playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, better known by his stage name KK, was cremated in the presence of his family and close friends from the film fraternity.
The popular singer’s last rites were performed around 2 pm at Mumbai’s Versova Hindu crematorium, which is just a kilometer away from his home in Park Plaza apartment.
The singer, just 53, died soon after performing at a concert in Kolkata on Tuesday night, leaving the industry and his fans in a state of shock.
An ambulance decorated with flowers and a picture of KK carrying the singer’s body to the crematorium.
The last rites were performed by KK’s son Nakul, who looked inconsolable.
The 53-year-old singer’s filmmaker friend Vishal Bhardwaj attended the funeral along with wife Rekha, filmmaker Ashok Pandit, Javed Akhtar, Shankar Mahadevan, Udit Narayan, Abhijit Bhattacharya and others.
Musicians like Shreya Ghoshal, Salim Merchant, Alka Yagnik, Rahul Vaidya, Javed Ali, Papon, Shantanu Moitra and Sudesh Bhosle paid tribute to the singer at his residence.
Bhattacharya told reporters outside KK’s residence, “It is a big loss. The entire industry is in shock. He did not have any health problem, so he had acidity problem for a few days.”
On Wednesday, the West Bengal government gave a gun salute to honor the singer. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid floral tributes to him.
His body was taken to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport from where he was shifted to his residence in Mumbai.
KK, who is regarded as one of the top singers, did not have formal training in music but was one of the most popular singers of the 90s and 2000s just after his debut with the 1996 film “Maachis” directed by Gulzar. emerged as
It was singer Hariharan who encouraged KK to come to Mumbai after hearing his singing in Delhi. He later worked on the track ‘Chhod Aaye Hum Woh Galliyan’ composed by Vishal Bhardwaj, which also starred Suresh Wadkar and Vinod Sehgal.
KK is mostly known for his work in Hindi, but he also sang memorable film tracks in other languages like Tamil, Telugu, Bengali.
He has lent his voice to actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Emraan Hashmi, Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan, R Madhavan, Vivek Oberoi and Ranbir Kapoor.
Some of KK’s most popular songs include ‘Yaaron’, ‘Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai’, ‘Tadap Tadap Ke Is Dil Se’, ‘Awarapan Banjarapan’, ‘Aankhon Mein Teri Ajab Si’, ‘Khuda Jaane’, ‘Zindagi Do Pal’. ‘ Are included. Key’ and ‘You got what’ etc.
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