‘Good night, Uncle Alex’: Father of Singapore guitar Alex Abisheganaden dies at 97

News of the passing of the “father of the guitar” was greeted by a chorus of eulogies on social media.

He is survived by his wife Eileen Wong, 93, and his two children, singer-actress Jacintha, 65, and Peter, 63.

He made his debut on stage as a singer at New World amusement park in Jalan Besar at just six years old, before teaching himself to play the guitar – the instrument that would make his name – at 15. A project initiated by the Ministry of Education in the early 1970s established him as a classical guitar maestro: To keep teenagers away from the use of recreational drugs, then Minister for Education Goh Keng Swee got Abisheganaden to teach classical guitar on television.

In 1981, he founded the National University of Singapore Guitar Ensemble. For his contributions to music in Singapore, he was conferred the Cultural Medallion in 1988.

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