ZUBEEN GARG

ZUBEEN GARG

Genres: bollywood, india, assamese, rock, world

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About ZUBEEN GARG

Zubeen Garg (born Zubeen Borthakur; 18 November 1972) was an Indian singer, music director, composer, lyricist, music producer, actor, film director, film producer, script writer and philanthropist. He primarily works for and sings in the Assamese, Bengali and Hindi-language film and music industries, but has sung in many other languages and dialects, including Bishnupriya Manipuri, Boro, English, Goalpariya, Kannada, Karbi, Khasi, Malayalam, Marathi, Mising, Nepali, Odia, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Tiwa. He is also an instrumentalist and plays 12 instruments including dhol, dotara, drums, guitar, harmonica, harmonium, mandolin, keyboard, tabla and various percussion instruments. He is Assam's highest-paid singer. His younger sister Palmee Borthakur is also a singer, but she is a professor. Garg was born in a brahmin family at Tura, Meghalaya to Mohini Borthakur and Ily Borthakur. He was named after the music composer Zubin Mehta. His father Mohini Borthakur is a lyricist and poet under the name Kapil Thakur. Garg pursued a degree in Bachelor of Science but dropped out to concentrate in his singing career. Garg got his confidence to become a singer when he got gold medal for his western solo performance in youth festival held in 1992. And after this he entered into professional music with his debut Assamese album Anamika, which was released in 1992. His first composed song from this album was "Gaane Ki Aane" which he composed at the age of 13. He later released many other albums and film songs such as Maya (1994), Asha (1995), Ujaan Piriti (1995), etc. On 19 September 2025, Garg died in Singapore, at the age of 52. He died while swimming in the sea without a life jacket. He was administered CPR and rushed to Singapore General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead in the intensive care unit around 2:30 pm IST.

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