Singer Feroza Begum dies

Eminent Nazrul Sangeet singer Feroza Begum has died on Tuesday. She was 84. The singer breathed her last around 8:28pm while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Apollo Hospital in the capital. The octogenarian was suffering from heart and kidney diseases. She was rushed to the hospital last week with low blood pressure and jaundice. Feroza Begum was born in an aristocratic Muslim family in Faridpur district on July 28, 1930. She became drawn to music in her childhood. At a time when Nazrul Sangeet was in a state of decline in this part of the world, it was Feroza Begum who revived the glory of the music genre and infused new life into Nazrul Sangeet. Through her unique presentation style and delivery of songs, she emerged as the most prominent Nazrul Sangeet singer in the subcontinent and is today an icon for the generations that followed hers in the world of Bangla music. Firoza Begum married Kamal Dasgupta, a singer, composer and lyricist of the subcontinent, now deceased. Among her three sons, Hamin Ahmed and Shafin Ahmed are also musicians and are currently members of the rock band Miles.