Veteran singer Mohammad Aziz passes away in Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital

Veteran singer Mohammad Aziz passes away in Mumbai's Nanavati Hosptial. He was 64

Mohammad Aziz was on his way back to Mumbai from Kolkata when he suffered a heart attack. He was rushed to Nanavati Hospital where he was declared dead.

He was born on 2 July 1954, was an Indian playback singer in the Bollywood, Bengali and Odia film industries.

Aziz made his film debut in a Bengali language film, Jyoti. Later, he came to Mumbai in 1984 and his first Hindi film was Ambar. He got a break when the music director Anu Malik got him to sing the song Mard Taangewala for the movie Mard, starring Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan.

Mohammed Aziz has sung almost twenty thousand songs in different Indian languages and also he has recorded hundreds of devotional Bhajans and Sufi songs as well.

Aziz famous song 'Aap Ke Aa Jane Se' was a huge hit.