Malayalam singer – composer Shan Johnson was found dead in her own apartment yesterday. She is daughter of famous late musician Johnson. Shan came to apartment after finishing a recording and she has to travel to Kochi with her mother for arrangements of her second marriage.
Reports say that her first marriage was a failure. Shan reached her apartment alone while her mother went to a relatives house at Mylapore. Her mother alarmed a friend on Shan not answering repeated calls for a long time.
The person reached her apartment and after repeated attempts to open the door, they broke in to see Shan lying on bed, dead. Shan is said to be under medication for health problems and reason for death is not known. Police could not find any suicide note, registered her death as unnatural.
Her body was sent to Rayapettah hospital for postmortem. Her father died in 2011 and her brother died in 2012 in a road accident. Shan was a trained western and carnatic musician. Her songs from Engeyayum Eppodum, Paravai and Thira are famous.