Bangladesh's legendary musician Lucky Akhand has died after battling lung cancer. He was 61.
He breathed his last at his home at Armanitola in Dhaka on Friday evening, his daughter Mum Minti Akhand Noor.
The singer-composer was brought home on April 7 from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University after treatment there for two and a half months.
Ershadul Haque Tinku, a person close to him, told the news agency earlier that he returned home on doctors' advice after his condition improved.
Tinku said Akhand was giving time to music after leaving the hospital.
Cancer was detected in Akhand's lung in 2015.
He was later treated in a Thailand hospital after the freedom fighter-artist received financial help from the prime minister's fund. He was later given chemotherapy in Dhaka.
Akhand was a rage in the 1980s, when he doubled up as a singer, lyricist, composer and music director.
His first album 'Lucky Akhand' was released by record label Sargam in 1984.
"Eiye Neel Monihar", "Amay Deko Na", "Ritiniti Jani Na", "Age Jodi Jantam" and "Sumona" are some songs of this album that earned him a huge fan following.
After his brother Happy Akhand died in 1987, Lucky withdrew himself from music.
Then, after a decade, he hit the stage again, in 1998 with two albums "Porichoy Kobe Hobe" and "Bitrishna Jibone Amar".
He had been a regular in many live music sessions on television ever since.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock at the death of eminent singer-composer and freedom fighter Lucky Akhand.
In a condolence message, she recalled the contribution of Lucky Akhand to the field of music and the Liberation War.
Sheikh Hasina prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed profound sympathy to the bereaved family members.
Agencies
