Guwahati, May 16 -- Acclaimed Assamese singer Gayatri Hazarika died at a hospital here on Friday afternoon after a long battle with colon cancer. family sources said.
Hazarika, 45, is survived by her husband and two sons, besides a host of admirers.
She had been admitted to a private hospital since May 12.
Hazarika had been singing since she was 11 years old, but shot to fame in 2014 after rendering her voice to a prominent song "Sora pate pate Fagun name".
Born in this state capital in 1980, Gayatri completed her schooling from TC Higher Secondary School in Guwahati and then studied in Handique Girls College here.
Later, she made her highest studies in music from Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata and Bhatkhande Music College in ...