Singer Prashant Tamang Passes Away

Agency — Singer Prashant Tamang has died after suffering a heart attack.

Family sources confirmed that Tamang passed away on Sunday morning in New Delhi. He rose to fame after winning the third season of the Indian television reality show Indian Idol. In recent times, he had been working as an actor in the Salman Khan–starrer film Battle of Galwan, for which the dubbing work was still pending.

Tamang had acted in several Nepali films, including Gorkha Paltan, Pardeshi, and Pardeshi 2. An Indian-born Nepali-speaking singer, he also contributed vocals to a number of Nepali films.

Tamang had been living in Delhi in recent years.