Versatile Odia playback singer Tapu Mishra passed away in Covid

Bhubaneswar: A versatile playback singer Tapu Mishra passed away  at a  private  hospital here last night while  undergoing treatment for  post covid complications. She was 36.The  young Odia singer  who lost her  father  in  covid   on May 10 last  was  in home isolation  after she was also tested   covid positive and later shifted to  a private hospital  on May 19 when her  oxygen saturation dropped drastically.Family sources said although she  recovered from the  Covid but  her lungs were  very badly affected and she  was  shifted to another private hospital in the city where she breathed  last  night at about 11 PM after  struggling  with  her life  with   full ventilator  support.The family members had planned to shift her to Kolkata  for  ECMO treatment  but   the  idea of shifting her to Kolkata for better  treatment was finally  dropped as she was not responding to any treatment. In her  two decades long singing career , Tapu  had  lent her  voice  in over 150 films and as many as  500 songs to her credit in  albums, classical, bhajan and item  songs.Besides Odia , she also sang in  Bengali,Hindi and other languages and  won four state  film awards. She married an  Ollywood actor only in  December last.Several  Odia cine stars  have  condoled the  untimely demise of what they called  Odisha’s melody queen.Actor Sritam Das  described  her demise  at such a young stage as a  big loss to the Odia film industry and also a  huge personal loss for him.Actor Sabyasachi Mishra  also  condoled and took to Twitter  writing  an emotional condolence message in  her memory.Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan  also mourned the death of Tapu Mishra .Expressing his  profound grief  Mr.Pradhan said the  odia  film industry had lost a  versatile  singer  in her death.Music Director Prem Anand and noted  music director Laxmikant Palit also expressed their profound grief at the  demise of  Tapu Mishra.

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