Pankaj Udhas, a singer from India whose soulful renditions of ghazals, or lyric love songs, were a cornerstone of many Bollywood films over his decades-long career, died in Mumbai on Monday.
His death was announced on social media by his daughter Nayaab Udhas.
Mr. Udhas moved generations of people in India and the Indian diaspora by singing ghazals, the lyric poems that have been written for centuries in Persian, Hindi, Urdu, Turkish and other languages.
He also worked as a playback singer, the term for a vocalist who recorded tracks offscreen for actors to lip-sync over.
Mr. Udhas became a stalwart in the Indian music industry through both his discography of more than 50 albums and the enormous success of the movies in which he sang.
Persons:
Pankaj Udhas, Nayaab Udhas, Udhas
Locations:
India, Mumbai