Azam KhanAzam Khan ( (full name Mahbubul Haque Khan, February 28, 1950 - June 5, 2011) was a Bangladeshi

Bangladesh

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 pop singer

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. He was the pioneer in Bengali pop music. He founded a band called Uchcharon ( meaning "Enunciation") in the early 1970s. He is honored as Guru

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 of Pop Music

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 in Bangladesh. Khan, together with pop music contemporaries Fakir Alamgir

Fakir Alamgir

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, Ferdous Wahid

Ferdous Wahid

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, Firoz Shai, Najma Zaman and Pilu Momtaz

Pilu Momtaz

Pilu Montaz was a Bangladeshi singer, who helped popularize pop music in Bangladesh in the years following the country's independence. The Bengali-language pop music is now referred to as "Bangla Pop."Montaz was born in Dhaka...

 is credited with pioneering and popularizing Bangla pop music in the years immediately following the country's independence.

He was a Freedom fighter in Sector 2 under late Brigadier

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 Khaled Mosharraf

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 and fought against the Pakistani army in the Liberation war

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 of Bangladesh

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 in 1971. After the war, he introduced an energetic brand of music. His first concert in television was broadcasted in 1972 in Bangladesh Television

Bangladesh Television

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. His popular tunes included "Ore Saleka, Ore Maleka", "Jibone Kichhu Pabona Re", "Ami Jare Chaire", "Ashi Ashi Bole Tumi", "Obhimani", "Rail liner bostite", "Hei Allah Hei Allah Re", "Alal O Dulal" etc.

Death

Azam Khan died on 5 June 2011 at Dhaka CMH hospital at age 61. He was suffering from oral cancer which had spread to his lungs. His death came 14 days after the passing of another early Bangladeshi pop music pioneer, Pilu Momtaz

Pilu Momtaz

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Discography

• Didi Maa
• Bangladesh
• Keu Nai Amar
• Mixed Album
• Neel Noyona