Singer Mohammed Aziz, who did playback for artistes including Amitabh Bachchan, Govinda and Rishi Kapoor, passed away yesterday at the age of 64. "He was brought dead to the hospital at 3.17 pm. The body has left from Nanavati for post-mortem," hospital officials stated. The cause of death will be known following the post-mortem, hospital sources said. But, media reports claimed that he died of cardiac arrest.

Aziz, who had over 20,000 songs to his credit, had sung in the Bollywood, Bengali and Odia film industries. He had recorded several devotional Bhajans and Sufi songs as well. A frequent collaborator with Bappi Lahiri, Aziz had rendered several of his chart-busters.