Bela Mukherjee (1921 – 25 June 2009) was an Indian singer and the wife of singer and music director
Hemanta Mukherjee
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989), known professionally as Hemant Kumar and Hemanta Mukherjee, was a legendary Indian music composer and playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, as well as other Indian ...
. She recorded a number of songs with her husband.
Mukherjee died in a private hospital in
South Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, commer ...
on 25 June 2009, at the age of 88.
She had been admitted to the hospital on 15 June 2009.
[ She was cremated at Keoratala.][ She was survived by her children, a son, Jayanta and a daughter, Ranu.]
References
2009 deaths
Singers from Kolkata
Year of birth uncertain
20th-century Indian singers
21st-century Indian women singers
21st-century Indian singers
Women musicians from West Bengal
20th-century Indian women singers
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