2020 in Asian music

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, ' by Composer Raleigh Rajan 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)
• ' by Composer Rajan Somasundaram and sung by Bombay Jayashri, Saindhavi, Karthik, Pragathi Guruprasad, Priyanka, William Henry Curry and others -
• BTS – ' (February 21)
• Hiroko Moriguchi – Gundam Song Covers 2 (June 10)
• Joji – Nectar (July 10)
• Sugam Pokharel – Swyet Hanshini
• Unique Salonga – ' (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
• , 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