Folk singer Bari Siddiqui no more

Noted folk singer and composer Bari Siddiqui breathed his last at a city hospital early Friday.

He was 63.

Bari Siddiqui died at Square Hospitals around 2:30am, said the singer’s son Shabbir Siddiqui, reports UNB.

The noted singer had been on life support at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital since Saturday.

Earlier on Friday last, Bari Siddiqui, who had been suffering from kidney-related problems for a couple of years, was admitted to the hospital on Friday night after he fell unconscious following a chest pain.

Born on 15 November 1954, Bari Siddiqui obtained his bachelor’s degree from Dhaka University and joined Bangladesh Television in 1985.

He won the BACHSAS Award for his music direction in the film, Srabon Megher Din, 1999, for the song Showa Chan Pakhi.

He also released a folk album, ‘Lokhkho Tara’, in 2000.