Singaporean comedian Siva Choy died in Perth on March 4, 2018, after suffering two strokes. He was 70.
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SINGAPORE - Veteran home-grown blues musician and funnyman Siva Choy, known for penning the 1991 Singlish rap classic Why U So Like Dat?, has died. He was 70.
He died on Sunday afternoon (March 4) after suffering two strokes that left him in a coma for two days in Perth, Australia, where he had been based since the 1990s with his wife, Ms Ilsa Sharp. The couple have no children.
Choy, who until a month ago was "still jamming away", died in a "graceful and dignified manner", said Ms Sharp, 72.
She told The Straits Times: "When it was clear that he was going to pass in the past two days, I made sure to have a player next to him playing music non-stop. Music was the centre of his life, and the idea of Siva Choy going out without any music was not right."
Choy, who learnt to play the guitar as a child, first performed as a teenager with his younger brother James in the 1960s under the band name The Cyclones.
Later, the duo teamed up with another band, The Checkmates, and the new partnership formed the resident band at the Sunday Beat And Blues tea dance sessions at the now-defunct Golden Venus lounge in Orchard Road.
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