Salsa idol Johnny Pacheco passes away at 85; friends, colleagues pay tribute
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NEW YORK: Johnny Pacheco, who was a co-founder of Fania Records, Eddie Palmieri s bandmate and backer of music stars such as Ruben Blades, Willie Colon and Celia Cruz, died Monday. He was 85. He had been hospitalized in New York a few days earlier for pneumonia, his wife, Maria Elena Cuqui Pacheco, said on the artist s Facebook account. Fania Records tweeted that the musician was the man most responsible for the genre of salsa music. He was a visionary and his music will live on eternally.
Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond passes away at 44 after a 3-week battle with cancer
SECTIONS Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond passes away at 44 after a 3-week battle with cancerAP
Last Updated: Feb 02, 2021, 11:41 AM IST
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Diamond, best known for playing the quirky, nerdy Screech on the hit 90s sitcom, was hospitalised last month.
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Diamond, best known for playing the quirky, nerdy Screech on the hit 90s sitcom, was hospitalized last month in Florida and his team disclosed later that he had cancer.
Related Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with cancer, according to his representative. He was 44.
Chanchal breathed his last at 12:15 pm at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, the sources told
PTI.
He was admitted to the south Delhi hospital on November 27 and died after suffering from brain complications, they said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed anguish at the death of noted bhajan singer, and said that he had carved a unique place for himself in the sphere of devotional song singing.
In a tweet, Modi expressed his condolences to the singer s family and fans.
लोकप्रिय भजन गायक नरेंद्र चंचल जी के निधन के समाचार से अत्यंत दुख हुआ है। उन्होंने भजन गायन की दुनिया में अपनी ओजपू… https://t.co/njxoA6I72z Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 1611309469000
Soon after PM Modi s tweet, the Ministry of Culture also put out a tribute for the singer.
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The Final Adieu
The year 2020 has been an unprecedented one. A global pandemic forced humanity into lockdown, bringing in its wake much uncertainty, fear and gloom.
2020 was also a year of loss as we lost many talented personalities from the world of showbiz across the world.
From Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput s shocking suicide to Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor both succumbing to cancer and passing away within hours of each other, this year of the pandemic has snatched many icons.
It was also the year when the deadly novel coronavirus claimed the lives of singer SP Balasubramaniam, Bengali thespian Soumitra Chatterjee, and music composer Wajid Khan among others.