KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 29 -- Malaysian rocker Datuk Awie has revealed that 2021 was a difficult year for him after being diagnosed with kidney cancer.

As the nation faced the height Covid-19 and numerous lockdowns, the 55-year-old Wings' frontman shared that he had to go undergo an operation to remove the cancer.

Awie or his real name Ahmad Azhar Othman made the revelation on local radio station Kool 101 via their Pagi on Point segment that this was after he was told by doctors who noticed 'something suspicious' in one of his kidneys' and said they might have to remove one of his kidneys.

"My heart sank. I thought to myself, this is it, my time is almost up.

"It took a while to sink in and I told my doctor I wanted to get a second opinion...