National award-winning singer and composer, Subir Nandi, has died early on Tuesday (May 7).

Subir Nandi breathed his last around 4.30am (BdST) while being treated at a hospital in Singapore, Samanta Lal Sen, coordinator of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s burns unit, told Bangla Tribune.

In an emotional post on social media, Nandi’s daughter, Falguni Nandi wrote “…we could not do much for you, but you have received everything in life. We love you forever.”

Nandi, an Ekushey Padak winner, was taken to Singapore on Apr 30.

His health condition deteriorated early on Monday (May 6) as he suffered a third cardiac arrest at the hospital.

Earlier, he was taken to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka on Apr 14 after he fell ill while returning to Dhaka from Srimangal by train.

The singer suffered a cardiac arrest soon after he was taken to the CMH emergency department.

In his 40-year singing career, he sang more than two thousand and five hundred songs in Radio, Television and Films.

His first solo album, ‘Subir Nandir Gan’, was released in 1981 and he started his career as a playback singer in 1976 with the film ‘Surya Grahan’.

Nandi received the National award for the fourth times and this year, he was awarded the Ekushey Padak.

His sang many notable songs and prominent among them are: ‘Amar a duti chokh’, ‘Bondhu hote ceye’, ‘Ami bristir kach theke kadte shikhechi’, ‘Chader kolonko ache’, ‘Din jaw kotha thake’, ‘Ekta chilo sonar konna’, ‘Hajar Moner Kache’, ‘Kotoje tomake besechi valo’, ‘Paharer Kanna Dekhe’, ‘Bondhu hote ceye tomar’.