Events 11 March – Ibrahim Gökçek and Helin Bölek, members of the Turkish band Grup Yorum, are taken to hospital for treatment in the course of their long-running hunger strike, but they are discharged a week later after refusing treatment. Music album on ancient Tamil poetry, Sandham: Symphony Meets Classical Tamil by Composer Raleigh Rajan featured in Amazon's Top#10 International Music albums in July 2020 - 25 May – Kim Woo-seok releases his first solo single and mini-album. 27 July – Mongolian band The Hu go to the top of the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart with their debut album The Gereg.
Albums AGA – So Called Love Songs (September 28) Sandham: Symphony Meets Classical Tamil by Composer Rajan Somasundaram and sung by Bombay Jayashri, Saindhavi, Karthik, Pragathi Guruprasad, Priyanka, William Henry Curry and others - BTS – Map of the Soul: 7 (February 21) Hiroko Moriguchi – Gundam Song Covers 2 (June 10) Joji – Nectar (July 10) Sugam Pokharel – Swyet Hanshini Unique Salonga – PANGALAN: (March 27) Hemant Sharma – Indra Daliye (May 21) Winner – Remember (April 9) SB19 – Get in the Zone (Album) (July 31)
Classical Bechara El Khoury – Unfinished Journey Jasdeep Singh Degun – Arya Karen Tanaka – Techno Etudes II
Opera Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang – M. Butterfly
Film and TV scores Eishi Segawa – The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms Gopi Sundar – Entha Manchivaadavuraa
Musical films Chal Mera Putt 2 (India - Punjabi) Kilometers and Kilometers (India - Malayalam), with score by Sushin Shyam and songs by Sooraj S. Kurup King of Prism All Stars: Prism Show Best 10 (Japan) Love Aaj Kal (India - Hindi) Naan Sirithal (India - Tamil) Sarileru Neekevvaru (India - Telugu) Shahenshah (Bangladesh) Street Dancer 3D (India - Hindi)
Deaths January 1 – Katsura Shinnosuke, 67, Japanese rakugoka and musician (leukaemia) January 4 – Junko Hirotani, 63, Japanese singer (breast cancer) January 19 – Sunanda Patnaik, 85, Indian classical singer February 14 – Sonam Sherpa, 48, Indian guitarist (cardiac arrest)Parikrama lead guitarist Sonam Sherpa passes away at 48 February 27 – Suthep Wongkamhaeng, 85, Thai luk krung singer March 17 , 79, Taiwanese operatic singer and actress.Taiwanese opera performer Hsiao Feng Hsien dies at 79 Thái Thanh, 85, Vietnamese-American singer. March 29 – Paravai Muniyamma, 82, Indian folk singer and actress April 2 – Nirmal Singh Khalsa, 67, Indian singer and priest (COVID-19)Former Hazoori Ragi Nirmal Singh Khalsa dead due to COVID-19 The Tribune. Retrieved 2 April 2020. April 3 – Helin Bölek, 28, Armenian/Turkish singer (hunger strike) April 6 – M. K. Arjunan, 84, Indian composer.Veteran Malayalam music director MK Arjunan Master passes away April 8 – Glenn Fredly, 44, Indonesian R&B singer-songwriter (meningitis) April 10 – Shanti Hiranand, 87, Indian classical singer May 5 – Didi Kempot, 53, Indonesian campursari singer May 7 – Ibrahim Gökçek, 39/40, Turkish folk musician (hunger strike) May 16 – Azad Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi composerAzad Rahaman passes away May 29 – Yogesh, 77, Indian lyricistLyricist Yogesh Gaur passes away June 1 – Wajid Khan (Sajid–Wajid), 43, Indian composer (complications from kidney infection and COVID-19) July 30 – Sonam Tshering Lepcha, 92, Indian folk musician and composer August 9 – Alauddin Ali, 67, Bangladeshi composer (lung complications)Music composer Alauddin Ali passes away August 17 – Pandit Jasraj, 90, Indian classical vocalistPadma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj dies at 90 in US September 9 – Yopie Latul, 65, Indonesian singerIndonesian singer Yopie Latul of Poco Poco fame dead at 65 after testing positive for COVID-19 September 16 – Alien Huang, 36, Taiwanese singer, actor and television presenter (aortic dissection)Taiwanese singer-host Alien Huang dies at 36 in suspected freak accident at home September 25 – S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, 74, Indian playback singer (COVID-19) October 8 – Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, 80, Iranian traditional vocalist master October 9 – David Refael ben Ami, 70, Israeli singerברוך דיין האמת: הזמר המיתולוגי החסיד ברסלב ר’ דוד רפאל פיינשיל (בן עמי) ז”ל November 10 – Rahayu Supanggah, 71, Indonesian composer
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