Death of young mum on her wedding day inspires concert to help fund raise

Tuesday 04th February 2020 08:38 EST
 
 

A mum-of-two from Lambeth, South London, who died just minutes after marrying the love of her life, was the inspiration for a Deepak Pandit concert to raise awareness of brain tumours. 

Louise Simonsen, who worked for a homeless outreach service, was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)brain tumour in November 2018, aged just 41. Given a stark prognosis of one to two years, Louise died nine months later, on the day she married her long-term partner, Shaff Prabatani, 49. The couple lived together in Streatham Common with their two daughters, Alia aged nine and seven-year-old Hannah Sofia.

On 26 January Louise’s sister-in-law, Shelina Prabatani, a diversity, inclusion and wellbeing adviser, hosted a concert in her memory, to raising more than £2,000 for the charity Brain Tumour Research.

The event at Harrow Arts Centre in Hatch End was an evening of Sufi, Fusion, Classical & Ghazal, featuring acclaimed Indian classical and fusion musician, Deepak Pandit. Producer, instrumentalist, vocalist and orchestral composer Deepak is hailed as one of the serious, young exponents of Indian classical music. He was accompanied by the vocals of young singing talent Abira Shah, from Feltham.

photo courtesy: Dinesh Joshi 


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