Full Name: Ayub Bachchu

Current Position: Deceased

Date of Birth: August 16, 1962

Date of Death: October 18, 2018

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Chittagong

Nationality: Bangladeshi

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Ayub Bachchu (16 August 1962 – 18 October 2018) Bangladeshi rock legend, rock guitarist, composer, singer and songwriter, who was the founder of the Bangladeshi rock band LRB and earned success as the lead singer and the lead guitarist of the band.

Bachchu was born in Chittagong in Patiya at Khorna union to father Mohammad Ishaque Chowdhury and mother Nurjahan Begum. The family moved to the Chittagong city after the Liberation War of Bangladesh. They resided in Jubilee Road. His nickname was Robin. He got his first acoustic guitar from his father as a gift 1973, when he was in class four. He learned to play guitar from Jacob Dias the founder of "Spider" band, who used to live in Chittagong. "Spider" band is the first band of Chittagong. From 1974 to 1977 he was playing guitar in Spider band. And the he make his own band Ugly boyz. He borrowed an electric guitar from his friend, Kumar Bishwajit, which was a Teisco Guitar. Bishwajit gave him the guitar after Bachchu showed more interest towards it. He was very attracted to the guitar playing techniques of Jimi Hendrix and Joe Satriani. He was admitted to Government Muslim High School in 1975. In 1979, he graduated from Muslim High School. His parents did not support him on becoming a musician. But, after his family saw his passion for rock music, they agreed on letting him become a musician. While studying in high school, Bachchu formed a band named "Golden Boys", which was later renamed as "Ugly Boys". Kumar Bishwajit was the lead singer of the band and Bachchu was the guitarist. They used to do club shows and shows in weddings. The group disbanded after Bachchu joined Souls in 1980.

In 1980, Bachchu joined the band Souls where he played for ten years and appeared in four studio albums including Super Souls (1982), College Er Corridore (1985), Manush Matir Kachakachi (1987) and East and West (1988). In 1991, he left the band to form his own band LRB or “Love Runs Blind”, where he was the vocalist and guitarist for 27 years, until his death in 2018. He released the first ever double album: LRB I and LRB II in 1992, with the band. LRB's third studio album Shukh, which featured "Cholo Bodle Jai", one of the greatest rock songs in Bangladesh. He also received well success as a solo artist. His first solo album Rokto Golap was released in September 1986. He got his breakthrough by releasing albums like Moyna (1988) and Koshto (1995) which received well success. He released only one instrumental rock album in his career: Sound of Silence (2007), which is the first ever instrumental album in Bangladesh.

Bachchu made his debut in the music industry by giving voice in the song 'Harano Bikiler Golpo'. In 1986, he released his first music album 'Rakto Golap'. His success story began when his second album 'Moyna' was released. He rose to fame by releasing his third album 'Koshto' in 1995 and the album was a super hit.

From creating one of the most timeless soft-rock masterpieces, Cholo Bodley Jai, switching his guitar tone to overdrive for the heavy metal-esque Shahbagh Mor, or just simply capturing the masses with his pop venture Ek Akasher Tara Tui, Ayub managed to embed his own style in Bangladeshi music.

Bachchu released several best selling-albums with LRB, and as a solo performer. He has won six Meril Prothom Alo Awards, one Citycell-Channel I Music Award with LRB and won the Bachsas Awards in the Best Male Vocal category in 2004. In 2017, he won the Tele Cine Lifetime Achievement Award.

In October 18, 2018, Bachchu died of cardiac failure in his own residence in Dhaka, six years after he was suffering of lung ailment. He gave his last performance in Rangpur City two days before his death.

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