Home-grown music veteran Jimmy Appudurai-Chua, former lead guitarist of blues rock band The Straydogs, died on Tuesday from ill health. He was 76. Formed in 1966, the group stood out from their contemporaries during the 1960s to 1970s with their hard-edged R&B- and...
He added: “Jimmy unselfishly helped promote Singapore music. He’s truly a blues legend.”
Monteiro shared in a post that he last met Appudurai-Chua in April 2023 near the latter’s home in Torpoint, where he spent “a couple of hours with him at lunch and strolling around Plymouth”. Singer Jerry Fernandez, frontman of home-grown band Jerry And The NeuFaces, said Appudurai-Chua was like “an elder brother” to him.
Jimmy Appudurai-Chua was the former lead guitarist of blues rock band The Straydogs, which was formed in 1966.Fernandez is also mourning the passing of another local musician, Peter Thomas, the bassist of 1960s pop group Naomi & The Boys. He died on Tuesday at the age of 80 after suffering a cardiac arrest, leaving behind a daughter, who resides in Perth, Australia, and a son, who lives in Melbourne.
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