Manna Dey, who sang scores of Hindi songs during the heyday of Bollywood, died Oct. 23 in Bangalore, India. He was 94 and had been ailing for some time. Dey broke into the Hindi film biz under the ...

When Chetan Anand was making a war movie based on the latest India-Pakistan conflict, there was one love song that was to be picturized on an IAF officer and they wanted a singer who could display a ...

Legendary playback singer Manna Dey blended poetry and melody in such a way that no one else in Indian cinema had ever done. Be it Rabindra Sangeet, memorable Bengali songs or Bollywood’s most pop ...

Indian singer Manna Dey has died in a Bangalore hospital at the age of 94. He had been ill for the past few months and was in hospital for a respiratory infection. His funeral is due to take place ...

The news that Padmabhushan Manna Dey is sinking in a Bangalore hospital cast a shadow amongst the music lovers of the subcontinent; especially, those associated with Hindi and Bangla songs. At 94, ...

A file photo of Manna Dey after receiving the Dadasaheb Phalke award for the year 2007, during the 55th National Film awards. Photo: AP The singer breathed his last at Bangalore’s Narayana Hrudayalaya ...

Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar has shared a video of late singer Manna Dey, marking his 101st birth anniversary on Friday. The video is a duet that Lata sang with Manna Da, as he was fondly called ...

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya, daughter of acclaimed filmmaker Bimal Roy, feels that Manna Dey never received the popularity Kishore Kumar or Mohammad Rafi had, as he was too humble for the glamorous world ...

Dey had it all - the voice, the range, the classical training and the temperament - but most composers somehow preferred other singers like Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh and Talat Mehmood, ...

The music genius sang more than 3,500 songs in his decades-long singing career New Delhi: Manna Dey’s knack for singing classical songs may have been disadvantageous for his career in filmdom, but the ...