Mumbai: Son of the Marathi actor-director Atmaram Bhende and Dr Asha Bhende (Lily Ezekiel), Nandu Bhende breathed his last on 11th April, Friday morning. His birthname was Sadanand Atmaram Bhende and frontman of seventies rock bands from Mumbai such as Savage Encounter and Velvette Fogg, passes away at 58.

Veteran rocker Nandu Bhende, frontman of Seventies rock bands from Mumbai such as Savage Encounter and Velvette... http://t.co/avRG8FvIk9

RIP #NanduBhende you are a part of rock n roll history in #India

In the 1980s he was a playback singer in the Bollywood film “Disco Dancer” for which he received a Gold Disc. His maternal uncle is Nissim Ezekiel.

Bhende has sung playback for Hindi films for music directors such as R.D Burman,

Laxmikant Pyarelal

and Bappi Lahiri.