Manohari Singh, one of the main players with R.D. Burman’s musician team passed away in Mumbai on July 13, 2010. The reason behind his demise is said that he was ill since past few days. Singh was 79.
Manohari Singh belonged to a family of musicians. His father and uncle played in night clubs and in music studios. Singh belonged to Kolkata.
He debuted in the film industry with ‘Sitaron Se Aage’ in 1958 whose music was composed by R.D. Burman. He even had released an album compiled of many musical pieces of saxophone from the Hindi film songs. He called that album ‘Sax Appeal’.
Before finally making Saxophone as his specialty he tried hands on English Key Flute, clarinet and mandolin too.
The best pieces by him are ‘Gaata Rahe Mera Dil’ from Guide, music by R.D. Burman again and more recently Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee starrer Chalte Chalte (2003) and Veer Zaara (2004).
Last week he even performed at Borovali in ‘Shankar Jaikishen Nite’
