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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 Rajan Somasundaram 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)
February 27 – Suthep Wongkamhaeng, 85, Thai luk krung singer
March 17
Hsiao Feng Hsien, 79, Taiwanese operatic singer and actress.
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)
April 3 – Helin Bölek, 28, Armenian/Turkish singer (hunger strike)
April 6 – M. K. Arjunan, 84, Indian composer.
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 composer
May 29 – Yogesh, 77, Indian lyricist
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)
August 17 – Pandit Jasraj, 90, Indian classical vocalist
September 9 – Yopie Latul, 65, Indonesian singer
September 16 – Alien Huang, 36, Taiwanese singer, actor and television presenter (aortic dissection)
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 singer
November 10 – Rahayu Supanggah, 71, Indonesian composer




By country


2020 in Chinese music
2020 in Japanese music
2020 in Philippine music
2020 in South Korean music




See also


2020 in music




References

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