He did not only sing to Assam. He sang for it.
To millions, he was simply Zubeen Da, elder brother. For more than thirty years he was a singer, composer, actor and filmmaker who carried Assamese music from village stages to the biggest halls in the country. Many people first heard him through the Hindi hit Ya Ali. Assam knew him long before that.
He sang in Assamese, Hindi, Bengali and many other languages, and he never stopped speaking up for the people and the culture he came from.
When he died, the state stopped. Well over a million people joined his final journey, and he was cremated with full state honours at Kamarkuchi on 23 September 2025. Grief turned into a single, steady request: tell us exactly what happened, and let the law do its work.