Overview
- Raja Azreen Raja Talib collapsed during Meditasi’s set at the Teruntum Rock Festival and later died after emergency treatment, the band and family say about the July 18 performance.
- Band members and crew carried him offstage and an ambulance arrived within minutes before he was taken to Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital, where he was given respiratory assistance but did not regain consciousness.
- Azreen’s brother told reporters the drummer was pronounced dead just after 11 p.m. and that Azreen had been hospitalized twice in recent months for heart problems and was recently diagnosed with diabetes.
- Meditasi’s frontman described the collapse as sudden and shocking, and the band has said it will continue to perform as a tribute to Azreen, who co‑founded the group in the 1980s.
- The accounts published by local and international outlets come from the band and family and do not include an official coroner’s statement, leaving a formal medical cause of death unconfirmed.