Even on Friday’s generation is excited about his work. Syed Abdul Hadi: “His music had an evergreen quality. He expressed his desire to record songs even at the final stages of his life.”Ī number of veteran singers of Bangladesh shared their reactions on the death of the legend with Dhaka Tribune. That showed that his heart and soul lived in music. Even after surviving a car accident, he came back to the car and asked us to put on the music to ease his nerves. “Amar Bolar Kichhu Chhilona,” wrote in an article published in Hindustan Times: “He didn’t know anything else apart from music. The celebrated Indian singer Haimanti Shukla, who came to the limelight through giving voice to the Manna Dey’s song Every song that I sang I never relented anywhere.” If I had sung that any other way I would be replaced by them. Any song that came to me was of utmost importance to me. In an interview, the maestro said: “I think I was in a field of music where there were giants.
He also sang 46 Rabindra Sangeet, 84 Shayam Sangeet, 103 Bengali songs from non-released Bengali films and the rests from a variety of genres.Īlong with Mohammad Rafi, Mukesh, and Kishore Kumar, he made up what was known as the “famous quartet of singers” who dominated the Hindi film music industry from 1950s to 1970s. He recorded 611 songs in Bangla films and sang 356 non-film Bangla songs. He sang around 1,200 Bangla songs along with his illustrious career in Bollywood. However, the millions of fans he created over the course of his career will keep him alive forever. The social networking pages like Facebook, Twitter and others has been immediately filled up with words from Bangalees all over the globe paying tribute to their favourite singer. Who does not become nostalgic by listening to the song “ Coffee House-er Shei Addata Aj Ar Nei”! Just as the news broke that the legendary singer Manna Dey passed away on Thursday morning, everyone, who has a minimum orientation with Bangla music, walked down memory lane to where they spent listening to the timeless songs of Manna Dey.