{"id":91014,"date":"2022-02-16T07:11:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=91014"},"modified":"2022-02-16T07:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:11:02","slug":"legendary-singer-and-music-composer-bappi-lahiri-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/legendary-singer-and-music-composer-bappi-lahiri-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary singer and music composer Bappi Lahiri passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Legendary music composer and singer Bappi Lahiri passed away. He was 69. The singer breathed his last in a Mumbai hospital.&nbsp;Lahiri died on Tuesday night at the CritiCare Hospital in Juhu.&nbsp;He was lovingly called&nbsp;<strong>Bappi Da<\/strong>&nbsp;in the industry is known for delivering iconic songs in several films of the late 1970s-80s like&nbsp;<strong>Chalte Chalte, Disco Dancer, and Sharaabi.<\/strong>&nbsp;His last Bollywood song was Bhankas for the 2020 film Baaghi 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The singer is known for his gold chains. His real name was&nbsp;<strong>Alokesh Lahiri.&nbsp;<\/strong>He joined&nbsp;BJP&nbsp;in 2014. He was declared a BJP candidate from&nbsp;Srerampur (Lok Sabha constituency)&nbsp;in West Bengal for the&nbsp;2014 Indian general election&nbsp;and lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary music composer and singer Bappi Lahiri passed away. He was 69. The singer breathed his last in a Mumbai hospital.&nbsp;Lahiri died on Tuesday night at the CritiCare Hospital in Juhu.&nbsp;He was lovingly called&nbsp;Bappi Da&nbsp;in the industry is known for delivering iconic songs in several films of the late 1970s-80s like&nbsp;Chalte Chalte, Disco Dancer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":91018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3043],"tags":[3207,1801],"class_list":["post-91014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2022","tag-bappi-lahiri","tag-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91019,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91014\/revisions\/91019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}