2011 in Asian music

See also: Timeline of musical events

Events

• May 9 – Chinese musician and composer Gao Xiaosong is arrested after causing a road accident in Beijing. He receives a six-month jail sentence ^[1] and loses his place as a judge in the new China's Got Talent series.
• July 25 – China's Got Talent is broadcast for the first time, by Dragon Television.

Albums

• AKB48 – Koko ni Ita Koto (Japan) ^[2]
• Aynur Aydın – Emanet Beden (Turkey)
• Anne Curtis – Annebisyosa (Philippines)
• Dinesh Agrahari Deewana, Mamta Sharma and Indu Sonali – Jaan Marbu Ka (India)
• Bülent Ersoy – Aşktan Sabıkalı (Turkey)
• Ethnix – Ga'aguim (Israel)
• Gugun Blues Shelter – Satu Untuk Berbagi (Indonesia) ^[3]
• Leessang – Asura Balbalta (South Korea) ^[4]
• Nima Rumba – Rangau Ki Ma (Nepal)
• Erik Santos – Awit Para Sa'yo (Philippines)
• Ali Zafar – Jhoom (Pakistan)

Classical

• Mehdi Hosseini – Monodies

Opera

• The Chinese Orphan , by Lei Lei, with a libretto by Zou Jingzhi ^[5]
• Dr. Sun Yat-sen , by Huang Ruo, with libretto by Candace Mui-ngam Chong. It is her first opera libretto, ^[6]

Deaths

• January 3 – Suchitra Mitra, Indian singer, 86 ^[7]
• January 19 – Hira Devi Waiba, Nepali folk singer, 71 (injuries from a fire) ^[8]
• January 24 – Bhimsen Joshi, Indian classical vocalist, 88
• February 8 – Roza Baglanova, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR, 89 ^[9] (Russian)
• February 20 – Malaysia Vasudevan, Indian actor and playback singer, 66 ^{[10] [11]}
• April 21 – Yoshiko Tanaka, Japanese actress and singer (Candies), 55 (breast cancer) ^[12]
• April 29 – Vladimir Krainev, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, 67 (aortic aneurysm) ^[13]
• May 23 – Pilu Momtaz, Bangladeshi pop singer, 52 ^[14]
• May 31 – Ram Man Trishit, Nepali lyricist, 70 (kidney problems) ^[15]
• June 5 – Azam Khan, Bangladeshi pop singer, 61 (cancer) ^[16]
• June 14 – Asad Ali Khan, Indian musician, 74 ^[17]
• July 27 – Rei Harakami, Japanese musician, 40 (cerebrovascular disease) ^[18]
• December 8 – Minoru Miki, 81, Japanese composer ^[19]

See also

• 2011 in music
• 2011 in Japanese music
• 2011 in South Korean music
• List of 2011 albums

References

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