In 2017, the Centre had appointed him as a member of the Central Board of Film Certification. He was awarded the U Tirot Sing award in 2011, Forbes Person of the Year in 2010-11, Indian Chamber of Commerce Musician of the Year in 2010-11, Special Achievement Award for CNN IBN Indian of the Year in 2010-11, Kalabaaz of the year - Big TV Awards in 2011 and was also a member of World Choir Council. Besides being a Padma Shri awardee, Nongkynrih had a number of state and national awards to his credit. The choir also performed at the Rashtrapati Bhavan for then US president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama during their state visit to India. The same year also saw the choir being honoured with three gold awards at the 6th World Choir Games for Musica Sacra, Gospel and Popular Music in Shaoxing China (Shanghai). In 2010, the choral group won the reality TV show, India's Got Talent, in 2010. Nongkynrih revived the Khasi language with a Khasi opera. In the same year, he founded the Shillong Chamber Choir, a multi-genre choir, which had won accolades from across the world. In 2001, Nongkynrih returned to his birthplace, Shillong, from the United Kingdom and started teaching piano. One of his many successful students, Phillip Selway, is a member of the popular British band Radiohead. An alumnus of Trinity College and Guildhall School of Music in London, Nongkynrih did numerous shows as a concert pianist in the United Kingdom and taught music in Oxfordshire.

'We are making arrangements to bring his mortal remains to Shillong,' he added. He was in Mumbai to record an album,' said PBO Warjri, the brother-in-law of the choir founder. He had a septic shock brought about by a perforated ulcer.

SHILLONG: Padma Shri awardee and founder of Shillong Chamber Choir Neil Nongkynrih died at Reliance Foundation hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday evening, said a family member.

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