Veteran Bollywood playback singer Mohammed Aziz, best remembered for his naughty rendition of the song My Name Is Lakhan, passed away on Tuesday, after a heart attack in a private hospital, a family member said.
Aziz, 64, collapsed at the Mumbai Airport after deboarding from a Kolkata flight on Tuesday afternoon. He was rushed to the Nanavati Hospital in Vile Parle where he breathed his last a short while later.
His body will be taken to his suburban Kandivli home.
Born in West Bengal’s Ashok Nagar as Syed Mohammed Aziz-un-Nabi in July 1954, he started his career as a restaurant singer in Kolkata till he got a singing break in a Bengali film Jyoti, before he shifted to Mumbai and sang for the Hindi film Ambar (1984).
Songs sung by him were picturised on Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakravorty, Rishi Kapoor, Govinda, Anil Kapoor and other leading actors. (IANS)
