Chennai: Singer Shan Johnson, 30, daughter of late musician Johnson, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her rented premises in Kodambakkam on Friday by her mother and friends.
Shan, a divorcee, was the singer in a western music band named ‘The Sound Bulb’ while in her professional life she was the marketing manager in a firm in Mylapore. She was active in various social media and communication platforms till late Thursday night and was supposed to fly to Kochi for a song recording on Friday morning.
Her Kerala-based mother Rani had come over to Chennai and was staying with Shan’s aunt in Mylapore.
When her mother called Shan on Friday morning she got no response and an anxious Rani went to the house where her daughter was staying. She found Shan’s room, in a house on Chakrapani street, locked from the inside. By that time, some of her friends too had reached the scene.
Borrowing a crowbar, they broke open the door only to see Shan lying dead on the bed with blankets all around her. The air conditioner and fan were working at that time. “Her body had changed colour. It had become dark and almost unrecognisable. The only health issue she was facing was from occasional seizures,” one of her friends told this newspaper.
The police said the body has been sifted to Royapettah GH mortuary for post mortem and only after autopsy would the cause of her death be ascertained.
Her father, Johnson, who had composed music for more than 300 movies, died after a heart attack in Chennai in 2011 while her only brother died in a bike accident in 2012.
