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M. Nasir says he and Loga were good friends who spent hours just talking and discussing matters of life |
THE Alleycats, famous for its classic pop Malay numbers, contributed much to the development of the local music scene.
| Francissca Peters says Loga and the other Alleycats were God-gifted performers for whom she has great respect |
So when founding member Loganathan Arumugam died after a year-long battle with lung cancer, other celebrated artistes took a stroll down memory lane.
Singer Francissca Peters said Loga and the rest of the Alleycats were God-gifted performers for whom she had great respect.
"I have known both brothers for almost 25 years now. They were soul-mates. Loga’s loss must have greatly affected David. I have no words to console him.
"Loga was a charming and witty man. Can you imagine what kind of man he was with that deadly combination?
"If he had been younger, girls would have gone ga-ga over him."
He was a highly-talented, gifted and intellectual man, a combination that she said only a few artistes today possessed.
"Beneath his quietness, there was this great sense of humour and warmth that many people did not realise."
Composer M. Nasir said he had known Loga for almost 30 years; they were good friends who spent hours just talking and discussing matters of life.
"He was a beautiful person, in a poetic sense.
"I think of him as a ‘pencari’, someone who was always searching for something in life. I will miss him deeply."
Nasir co-produced the Alleycats first Malay album, Terima Kasih, in 1978.
Musician Ramli M.S. said he knew Loga for almost a decade.
He described his friend as "a good man", a happy-go-lucky person to whom people could easily relate and whose Afro hairdo was the first thing that came to mind when anyone mentioned his name.
"The Alleycats must go on, it should not stop here. David is still here," he said.
The vocalist and flute player died smiling as he listened to early Alleycats songs on a portable disc player placed by his bedside at Mount Miriam Hospital, Penang.
