2020 in Asian music
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- 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.[1]
- 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 - [2]
- 25 May – Kim Woo-seok releases his first solo single and mini-album.[3]
- 27 July – Mongolian band The Hu go to the top of the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart with their debut album The Gereg.[4]
Albums
- AGA – So Called Love Songs (September 28)[5]
- Sandham: Symphony Meets Classical Tamil by Composer Rajan Somasundaram and sung by Bombay Jayashri, Saindhavi, Karthik, Pragathi Guruprasad, Priyanka, William Henry Curry and others - [2]
- BTS – Map of the Soul: 7 (February 21)[6]
- Hiroko Moriguchi – Gundam Song Covers 2 (June 10)[7]
- Joji – Nectar (July 10)[8]
- Sugam Pokharel – Swyet Hanshini[9]
- Unique Salonga – PANGALAN: (March 27)[10]
- Hemant Sharma – Indra Daliye (May 21)
- Winner – Remember (April 9)
- SB19 – Get in the Zone (Album) (July 31)
Classical
- Bechara El Khoury – Unfinished Journey[11]
- Jasdeep Singh Degun – Arya[11]
- Karen Tanaka – Techno Etudes II
Opera
- Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang – M. Butterfly[12]
Film and TV scores
Musical films
- Chal Mera Putt 2 (India - Punjabi)
- Kilometers and Kilometers (India - Malayalam), with score by Sushin Shyam and songs by Sooraj S. Kurup[15]
- King of Prism All Stars: Prism Show Best 10 (Japan)[16][17]
- Love Aaj Kal (India - Hindi)[18]
- Naan Sirithal (India - Tamil)[19]
- Sarileru Neekevvaru (India - Telugu)[20]
- Shahenshah (Bangladesh)
- Street Dancer 3D (India - Hindi)[21]
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[22]
- February 14 – Sonam Sherpa, 48, Indian guitarist (cardiac arrest)[23]
- February 27 – Suthep Wongkamhaeng, 85, Thai luk krung singer[24]
- March 17
- Hsiao Feng Hsien, 79, Taiwanese operatic singer and actress.[25]
- Thái Thanh, 85, Vietnamese-American singer.[26]
- March 29 – Paravai Muniyamma, 82, Indian folk singer and actress[27]
- April 2 – Nirmal Singh Khalsa, 67, Indian singer and priest (COVID-19)[28]
- April 3 – Helin Bölek, 28, Armenian/Turkish singer (hunger strike)[29][30]
- April 6 – M. K. Arjunan, 84, Indian composer.[31]
- April 8 – Glenn Fredly, 44, Indonesian R&B singer-songwriter (meningitis)[32]
- April 10 – Shanti Hiranand, 87, Indian classical singer[33]
- May 5 – Didi Kempot, 53, Indonesian campursari singer[34]
- May 7 – Ibrahim Gökçek, 39/40, Turkish folk musician (hunger strike)[35]
- May 16 – Azad Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi composer[36]
- May 29 – Yogesh, 77, Indian lyricist[37]
- June 1 – Wajid Khan (Sajid–Wajid), 43, Indian composer (complications from kidney infection and COVID-19)[38]
- July 30 – Sonam Tshering Lepcha, 92, Indian folk musician and composer[39]
- August 9 – Alauddin Ali, 67, Bangladeshi composer (lung complications)[40]
- August 17 – Pandit Jasraj, 90, Indian classical vocalist[41]
- September 9 – Yopie Latul, 65, Indonesian singer[42]
- September 16 – Alien Huang, 36, Taiwanese singer, actor and television presenter (aortic dissection)[43]
- September 25 – S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, 74, Indian playback singer (COVID-19)[44]
- October 8 – Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, 80, Iranian traditional vocalist master[45]
- October 9 – David Refael ben Ami, 70, Israeli singer[46]
- November 10 – Rahayu Supanggah, 71, Indonesian composer[47]