Foad Nasser Babu

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Foad Nasser Babu
ফুয়াদ নাসের বাবু
Born31 May
Genres
  • Pop rock
  • Soft rock
  • Blues
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • Songwriter
  • Composer
Instrument(s)
Years active19–present
Labels

Foad Nasser Babu (born 31 May) [1] is a Bangladeshi music composer. [2] He is the founder, band leader, music composer, Lyricist, singer and the keyboardist of Feedback , a Bangladeshi band. [3] [4] He also plays piano, bass guitar and rhythm both in session music recordings and in the live shows. Melay Jaire is one of his best composition, written & melody composed by Maqsoodul Haque.

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He composes music for radio and television commercials, theme and background score for drama, feature films, documentaries and songs for solo artists. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]


In Bangladesh, TV commercials (Jingle) has got a modern feel and thereafter propelled to the ultra-modern genre with his decades-long effort.

As a bass guitarist he has been performing with Runa Laila for the last four decades.

Career

In 1972, Babu composed his first song "Abar Eshechhe Shey Muktir Logno" - a Gono Sangeet (inspirational songs for the masses) written by Ahmed Bashir, performed by Shomonbo i Shilpi Goshthi. "Udashi Ey Mone" was his first recorded song. [9]

Babu owns the recording studio Art of Noise in Dhaka. [10]

Discography

Band

Mixed

  • Rongomela Vol.1 [11]
  • Together
  • Kiron
  • Adda
  • 6 Band Mixed '99
  • Aloron
  • Millennium

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