Monday, June 06, 2011

Some information about Azam Khan (Singer)

Azam Khan (Bengali: আজম খান (full name Mahbubul Haque Khan, February 28, 1950-June 5, 2011 ) was a Bangladeshi pop singer. He was the pioneer in Bengali pop music. He founded a band called Uchcharon (Bengali: উচ্চারণ meaning "Enunciation") in the early 1970s.[1] He is honored as Guru of Pop Music in Bangladesh.[2] Khan, together with pop music contemporaries Fakir Alamgir, Pilu Momtaz, Najma Zaman and Ferdous Wahid, is credited with pioneering and popularizing Bangla pop music in the years immediately following the country's independence.[3]