Padma Shri awardee and noted saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath breathed his last in the early hours of Friday, 11 October, days after he was admitted to a Mangaluru private hospital. He was 69 and was hospitalised for age-related issues.
His last rites are slated to be held later in the day, in order to wait for the arrival of one of his sons from the Middle East.
Among other awards and accolades, he had won the Kendra Sangeetha Nataka Academy Award, Karnataka Kalashree and had played at the Jazz Festival in Prague, the Berlin Jazz Festival, the International Cervantino Festival in Mexico, the Music Hall Festival in Paris, and the BBC Promenade concert in 1994 at London.