Kul Prasad Pokhrel(September 21, 1981 - October 4, 2004) was a Nepalese singer-songwriter. He was popularly known by his stage name Cool Pokhrel and he was well known as a pop and folk music singer. He died in 2004 of a possible of drug overdose.
Pokhrel was born in Butwal, Nepal he was raised by his parents and he mostly preferred living with his relatives.He started singing at early age of 11,while singing song to his relatives they thought he would became one of the biggest singer of Nepal.Than he recorded a song called "Sun Meri Mayalu" which became blockbuster song which led to joining a popular Nepali hip-hop group The Unity (band) which made his career a strong in Nepali music industry.
He is known as "King of Pop" by many Nepali audience and international audience he had left many tears in his audience after hearing of his death. Cool Pokhrel had many super hit songs in Nepal such as sun meri mayalu,bolauda kheri boldinou, yespali dashin ma and mritu ko chyan which were blockbuster songs in Nepal. Cool released many songs and albums in his life many of the songs were blockbuster. He is still remembered for being King of Nepalese Pop. Cool Has been Remembered in other Nepalese pop songs some by other popular singers such as Unity Band, Jhilkey Badal, Sugam Pokharel, Girish Khatiwada and others,he has been recognized as the revolutionary singer of history of pop music.
Cool had achieved his success after recording of his first song Sun Meri Mayalu which became one of the popular song in Nepal.Than he released many other hit songs such as Yesplai Dahain, Ama and Kina Udas became blockbuster pop song in Nepal and Cool had achieved the title of King of Nepali Pop.
