Comedian Kabir Singh has died, a member of the family confirmed to NBC News. He was 39.
He handed away in his sleep in his Bay Area house in Pleasanton, California, based on his sister, Sonya Singh. Their mom was the one who discovered him Wednesday.
“My mother — she lives with him — tried to wake him up, and he did not get up,” Sonya Singh instructed NBC News.
She stated the reason for dying will not be recognized at the moment, however that her brother had congenital coronary heart illness. Kabir Singh beforehand had two surgical procedures on account of his situation, based on his sister.
Kabir Singh was the youngest of three siblings. He would have turned 40 on Dec. 30, Sonya Singh stated.
“We have been planning his birthday,” she stated.
Singh is greatest recognized for competing on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” in 2021, the place he reached the semifinals earlier than getting eradicated. NBC is owned by NBCUniversal, the guardian firm of NBC News.
In his “AGT” audition, Singh carried out a fast set the place he joked about serial killer documentaries and remembering passwords. He obtained a “sure” from all 4 judges — Sofía Vergara, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel and Simon Cowell.
“I wish to be the primary rise up comic to win this, and I’d be the happiest man on the earth,” Singh stated forward of his audition.
In a press release to NBC News on Friday, “AGT” referred to as Singh “a proficient comic” who introduced “his plain humor” to the stage.
“He introduced pleasure and laughter to so many and his unimaginable expertise shall be missed,” the assertion learn.
The Portland, Oregon-born comic additionally appeared in Comedy Central’s “Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand Up Revolution,” and labored on the hit Fox sequence “Family Guy.”
“He was very effectively beloved within the comedy neighborhood,” Sonya Singh instructed NBC News. “He helped lots of people and he put lots of people on stage and beloved working in that discipline.”
One of Singh’s closing comedy performances was in early November, on the Deaf Puppy Comedy Club in Manteca, California.
The Manteca comedy membership commemorated Singh in a submit on Instagram following information of his passing, calling him “among the finest.”
“He completely destroyed each time he carried out in Manteca,” the submit learn. “You lifted up the 209 comedy scene when there was none, and can all the time be our Champion.”
