Popular new generation rock music bands –Artcell, Black and Cryptic Fate– rocked the audience together in a concert on Friday at the Engineers’ Institute. The concert titled “ABC Generation Concert” was organised by Live Square Concerts with the motto to revive the pulse of the new generation rock music lovers. Cryptic Fate was first to ... Read more
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‘Concert for Bangladesh’ goes digital
August 1 marks the 40th anniversary of a pair of historic benefit concerts that the late George Harrison staged with a little help from some very famous friends. Now, thanks to new technology, fans of all ages can relive the event. Tuesday marks the digital debut of The Concert for Bangladesh, the Grammy Award-winning album ... Read more
“Pubal Batash”: Album of Bhawaiya songs released
A mixed album featuring Bhawaiya songs, titled “Pubal Batash” was released on July 27 at the Seminar Hall of Central Public Library, Shahbagh, Dhaka. The album features 10 popular songs of the genre. Lawmaker and noted media personality Asaduzzaman Noor was present as the chief guest at the programme. Among others, journalist and
Class VIII student to appear soon as singer, music director
Prottoy Khan, younger brother of promising singer Hridoy Khan, is going to appear as a singer and music director soon by launching hisdebut album “Prottoy Khan’s FnF”. The album will be released under the banner of Laser Visionin the middle of the month of Ramzan. The album will contain eight songs among which Prottoy will ... Read more
Kona optimistic on her albums
Popular pop singer Dilshad Nahar Kona has gained popularity as a pop singer by providing a number of hit songs for over a decade. Since the beginning of her career, Kona has attainted acclimation for her versatile and melodic voice. Kona is on her way to release her third solo album in the upcoming Eid-ul-fitr, ... Read more
Adity Mohsin’s ‘Sokha Tomare Paile’ launched
Bengal Foundation launched an album of popular Tagore artiste Adity Mohsin titled ‘Sokha Tomare Paile’. The album features some popular songs of three legendary poets-Atul Prasad Sen, Dwijendralal Roy and Rajani Kanta Sen. The album was produced under the music direction by Durbadal Chattapadhyay. Noted litterateur Sayed Shamsul Haque unveiled the cover of the album ... Read more
Habib’s Ahban
Habib Wahid’s rise started with his 2003 début album “Krishno”, which proved to be a success in Britain and Bangladesh. In the next few years, Habib released five albums — “Maya” (2004), “Moina Go…” (2005), “Shono” (2006), “Panjabiwala” (2007), “Bolchi Tomake” (2008) and “Aboseshe” (2008). His latest work, “Ahban” did not go unrewarded, as it ... Read more
Bipasha Kabir in film’s item song
Bipasha Kabir was one of the top contestants in Lux Superstar Contest 2009. By this time besides performing in TVC she has already started acting in TV channels. Though she is regular in TV acting and modeling Bipasha has keen interest in the movie based on good story and script. Her intention has slightly fulfilled ... Read more
Fahmida Nabi and Subir Nandi to release their first duet album
Seasoned artistes Subir Nandi and Fahmida Nabi are releasing a duet album for the first time. Fahmida sang a duet “Ami Kantar Bhuboney” with Subir for a feature film, “Ferari Bashanta”, 28 years ago. Although Fahmida had occasionally performed with Subir, this is the first time they are working on a duet album. Eight songs ... Read more
Salma expecting baby
Close up famed promising singer, Salma is expecting a baby. Shibli Sadik, a businessman hailed from Dinajpur and later became upazila chairman, married Salma first of this year. Before taking preparation for the arrangement of their post-marriage reception programme the couple informed that Salma was pregnant. For this reason, their wedding reception programme was cancelled ... Read more
Nashid Kamal’s latest offering of Nazrul songs
Laser Vision Ltd recently launched Dr. Nashid Kamal’s CD, “Jao tumi phire”. The CD, has 12 Nazrul songs: six popular and six rare numbers. The event was held at the Gulshan Ladies’ Community Club on July 15. Chief guest, veteran artiste Sohrab Hossain launched the CD. Special guest, noted singer Ferdausi Rahman gifted Nashid her ... Read more
Choyon Mollick’s ‘Hridoy Binai Gahi’ launched
Renowned Tagore artiste Choyon Mollick’s solo Tagore song based album titled ‘Hridoy Binai Gahi’ was launched at a function at the Bengal Shilpalaya in the city’s Dhanmondi area on Thursday evening. Professor of the Department of English of Dhaka University Dr Fakrul Alam unveiled cover of the album, while singer Choyon Mollick, Director General of ... Read more
Karnival rocks the youngsters
Formed in 2006, musical band Karnival has attained the attention of young rock music lovers in a very short span of time by means of its experimental rock music. Karnival’s debut album “Indraloy” was released on September, 2009 and their three other tracks were featured in different mixed albums. “We have almost finished
Shaina, Antu in a music video
Promising model cum actors Antu Karim and Shaina Amin have recently performed together in a music video album. They both took part in a video recording of a song titled “Ai jibon hoyechhe modhur” for the album titled ‘Nilambhori’ by Shahid, the chief vocalist of band group Durbin. The album was produced under the direction ... Read more
‘Concert for Humanity’ tomorrow
Brittanto ’71, a socio-cultural organisation, is going to arrange a charity concert titled ‘Concert for Humanity’ in the city’s Mirpur Indoor Stadium on July 15. With a view to raising fund for setting up a free health centre for the poor and underprivileged people titled ‘Sheba Kutir’, the newly formed organisation is arranging the show. ... Read more
Souls featuring You: Campaign to discover new music talents
One of the pioneering Bangladeshi bands, Souls, in association with Grameenphone is launching a talent hunt. Titled, “Souls featuring You”, the competition aims to inspire budding lyricists and instrumentalists to come up with a song for the band’s upcoming album, says a press release. The campaign, set to kick off tomorrow (July 13), invites lyricists ... Read more
Making of a folk songstress
Tête-à-tête with Sefali Sargam Sefali Sargam is a promising folk singer from Rangamati. She started singing when she was barely four years old and couldn’t even play the harmonium properly. Her elder sister, Lily, was her first mentor in music. Later she trained under noted musician Debu Chowdhury. “I’m taking lessons in classical music from ... Read more
In conversation with Nazu…
Promising singer Nazu is now passing hectic days with her new solo album, stage performance and playback in some movies. Her first album ‘Kacha Holuder Rong’ was released in 2002 and earned huge reputation. ‘Swapno Konya’ is her another album which was highly praised by the critics and listeners. Till now, she gave vocal for ... Read more
Aurin’s 3 mixed albums in Eid
Shafiq Tuhin’s album ‘Swapno O Tumi’s song titled “Er beshi bhalobasha jai na” is now familiar to all. Promising singer Tasmina Aurin contributed her vocal with Shafiq Tuhin in that track. Besides this, she also contributed in some other popular tracks under the albums titled ‘Amir Featuring Janma’, ‘Shobdey Dhaka 1200’, ‘Shafiq Tuhin Dot Com’ ... Read more
Mamunur Rashid in radio play after 40 years
Noted media and theatre personality Mamunur Rashid last performed in a radio play in 1972. The play was Shaheed Munier Chowdhury’s “Kabor”. After a hiatus of four decades, the thespian has performed in another radio play, this time in a serial titled “Paruler Shangshar”. In the serial, Rashid enacts the role of a local landlord ... Read more