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Tamás Mihály, the Kossuth award winning bassist for the band Omega, has passed away.
It is with deep sorrow that we announce that Tamás Mihály, the Kossuth Award and Ferenc Liszt Award winning bassist from the Omega Ensemble, has passed away. He was a defining figure in Hungarian rock music and, in addition to Omega, his solo albums and stage works are also enduring. We will preserve your memory forever the Omega band wrote on their community page on Saturday afternoon.
According to a Blikk article, he kept the Kossuth Award-winning bassist and Ferenc Liszt Award-winning bassist sick throughout.
The legendary founder of the band, László Benkő, passed away this Tuesday.
Most of the songs on the first album can also be heard in his voice.
Tamás Mihály was born in 1947 and came from a family of musicians. His father was András Mihály, director of the opera house. He met Gábor Presser in the cello department of the music conservatory, where he studied classical music and played the cello. He joined Omega in 1967, before that he played in the bands Scampolo and Non-Stop.
His first composition in the group is The Legend of the Spanish Guitar, which he sang himself.
Also, most of the songs on Omega’s first album, Hungary’s Omega Red Star in English language, can be heard in his voice.
In 2014, he last played with Omega
After Presser left, he wrote most of Omega’s songs, along with György Molnár, including masterpieces such as Suite or I Don’t Know Your Name.
In 1983, Tamás Mihály made a solo album titled Synthesizer Magic, in which he processed the compositions of Ferenc Liszt and Richard Wagner. In 2006 he composed the musical 56 Drops of Blood on the occasion of the anniversary of the 1956 revolution.
His work was recognized with the Ferenc Liszt Prize in 1987, the Officers’ Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 1998, the Jenő Huszka Prize in 2000, the Artisjus Prize in 2007, and in 2013 he was awarded the Prize Kossuth as a member of the Omega band.
Tamás Mihály in 2014 Bass! Omega! He wrote a book on the history of the band, titled For a Life.
Shared with members of the Omega band, he received the Liszt Ferenc Award in 1987 and the Kossuth Award in 2013.
He last played with Omega in 2014, although his departure was only confirmed by János Kóbor in April 2017.
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