She died on 7 October 2007 of uterine cancer. Her husband had died several years before. By 1982 Suryani had released over 500 songs on some twenty albums. Her song "Gang Kelinci" was selected as the 66th-best Indonesian song of all time by "Rolling Stone Indonesia". It has been covered by multiple singers, including Gita Gutawa, Meliana Pancarani, and Silver Quint.