Foreign diplomats in India have also joined those paying tributes to legendary playback singer Asha Bhosle, who passed away in Mumbai today at the age of 92.

 

Australian High Commissioner to India, Philip Green, said that he is among the non-Indians who cherish the music of the evergreen Asha Bhosle.

 

The European Union’s Ambassador to India, Herve Delphin, termed the acclaimed singer’s death a monumental loss, saying that the melody may have paused, but her legacy remains eternal.

 

Over the course of her career, Asha Bhosle was nominated for ​two Grammys and landed the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the country’s top arts accolade, and also the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second-highest ⁠civilian honour. The celebrated singer carved her own path in the world of music.

 

Over the years, she collaborated with a range of international pop artists. Asha Bhosle’s pervasive presence in Bollywood earned her the 1997 hit Cornershop tribute “Brimful of Asha. In the early 1990s, she teamed up with Boy George and recorded a track with R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe. Meanwhile, Cornershop’s tribute to her singing gained even greater popularity after a remix by Fatboy Slim. 

 

In one of her final recordings, she collaborated with the British virtual band Gorillaz on their 2026 album, The Mountain, shaped by themes of grief, mortality, and spiritual transition. The collaboration stood as a powerful closing note to her career, affirming her enduring ability to transcend boundaries of genre, geography, and time.