Veteran Classical Singer Prabha Atre Passes Away at 92

Legendary classical singer and Padma Vibhushan recipient Prabha Atre died on Saturday after a cardiac arrest, PTI reported. She was 92 years old.

The news agency quoted an unidentified source as saying that Atre suffered a cardiac arrest in her sleep at her home in Pune. She was reportedly taken to the city’s Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital, where she was declared dead at 5.30 am.

Atre, born on September 13, 1932, was a science and law graduate, and later earned a doctorate in music. She was one of the oldest and most renowned practitioners of the Kirana gharana, or musical lineage.