2020 in Asian music
# 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, 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 [zh], 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
