KK, the legendary singer who died of a heart attack on May 31 immediately after a performance in Kolkata, was laid to rest tonight in Mumbai. At the Versova Hindu cremation ground, his family and industry friends paid their condolences.
Hariharan, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Shreya Ghoshal, Salim Merchant, Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan, Javed Akhtar, Harshdeep Kaur, Rahul Vaidya, Sudesh Bhosle, Sameer, Javed Ali, Vishal Bharadwaj, Mini Mathur, Kabir Khan, and others were among those who visited the cremation place for antim darshan.
Last Tuesday, the 53-year-old singer was playing at Nazrul Mancha in Kolkata. He complained of feeling uneasy at the event. He got transported to the hotel, where he passed out, and then rushed to Kolkata's CMRI Hospital. KK had been declared dead when he got brought in.
KK's relatives took his lifeless remains to Mumbai after a post-mortem at a hospital in Kolkata. At Kolkata's Rabindra Sadan, where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also paid her tributes, he was honored with a gun salute.
KK was one of the most diverse singers in the Indian music industry. He has a long list of hit songs in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, and other languages. KK is survived by his wife and children.
