Sandhya Mukherjee

Geetashree[1][2] Sandhya Mukherjee (also spelled Mukhopadhyay; 4 October 1931 – 15 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and musician, specialising in Bengali music.

Besides Hemanta Mukherjee's compositions, her largest body of work is with Robin Chattopadhyay and Nachiketa Ghosh.

She assisted Bangladeshi musician Samar Das as he set up the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, the clandestine radio station broadcasting to Bangladesh and recorded several patriotic songs for him.

[17] She also had lung infections, hypotension, ischemic heart disease, multi organ dysfunction and a fracture at her left femur.

[20] In the morning of 15 February, she was transferred to the intensive care unit for sudden severe abdominal pain and hypotension,[21] following which she died at 7.30pm of the same day following a cardiac arrest.

[22][23] One of the nurses of the hospital reported that she had the cardiac arrest at the time of listening to "Ei shohor theke aro onek dure", a popular Bengali song by Manna Dey, with whom she sang numerous duets.