76 Facts About Ayub Bachchu

Ayub Bachchu is considered as one of the greatest singers of all time in Bangladesh and a pop culture icon.

Ayub Bachchu was one of the pioneers of Bangladeshi pop music.

Ayub Bachchu played with the band as the lead guitarist from year 1974 to 1977.

Ayub Bachchu released the first ever double album: LRB I and LRB II in 1992, with the band.

Ayub Bachchu got his breakthrough by releasing albums like Moyna and Koshto which received great success.

Ayub Bachchu released only one instrumental rock album in his career: Sound of Silence, which is the first ever instrumental album in Bangladesh.

Ayub Bachchu has worked in several movie songs, some of them are Anutopto, Loottoraj, Mon and Ammajan.

Ayub Bachchu released several best selling-albums with LRB, and as a solo performer.

Ayub Bachchu has won a record 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 October 2018, Ayub Bachchu died of cardiac failure in his own residence in Dhaka, six years after suffering from a lung ailment.

Ayub Bachchu gave his last performance in Rangpur City two days before his death.

Ayub Bachchu was buried in Chaitanya Goli in Chittagong, beside his mother's grave.

Ayub Bachchu was born in Chittagong in Patiya at Khorna union on 16 August 1962 to Mohammad Ishaque Chowdhury and Nurjahan Begum.

Ayub Bachchu got his first acoustic guitar from his father as a gift in 1973, when he was in class six.

Ayub Bachchu learned to play guitar from Jacob Dias, who used to live in Chittagong.

Bishwajit gave him the guitar after he [Ayub Bachchu] showed more interest towards it.

Ayub Bachchu was very attracted to the guitar playing techniques of Jimi Hendrix and Joe Satriani.

Ayub Bachchu was admitted to Government Muslim High School in 1975.

Ayub Bachchu's parents did not support him on becoming a musician.

Feelings' frontman James stated that he saw Ayub Bachchu playing guitar at a tea stall.

Ayub Bachchu was amazed by the playing style of Bachchu and he asked him to join the band.

Ayub Bachchu was playing with Feelings in a club in Chittagong, where Souls' keyboardist Naquib Khan was present.

Ayub Bachchu was amazed by the playing of Bachchu and he talked to lead singer Tapan Chowdhury about it.

Ayub Bachchu joined Souls in early-1980 and played with the band for next 10 years as the lead guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer.

Ayub Bachchu had appeared on three studio albums College Er Corridore, Manush Matir Kachakachi and East and West.

Ayub Bachchu played both the bass guitar and electric guitar on the album.

Ayub Bachchu left Souls in the late-1990 and formed his own band Love Runs Blind on 5 April 1991.

Since the beginning of his career, Ayub Bachchu had a fascination for blues, jazz and funk.

Ayub Bachchu had already released two double albums with his band LRB: LRB I and LRB II in 1992 and Amader and Bishmoy in 1998.

Ayub Bachchu wanted to release double albums as a solo artist.

Ayub Bachchu performed live with Richard and Le Gang, Remo Fernandes, Nandon Bugchi and Bickram Ghosh of India and Azam Khan, Feelings, Miles, Warfaze.

Ayub Bachchu appeared as a judge on "IIM Joka Rock Fest" in India, Benson and Hedges Star Search I and II, and D-Rockstar I Bachchu was one of the panel judges of Bangladeshi Idol.

Ayub Bachchu led LRB at the South Asian Bands Festival 2013.

Ayub Bachchu has worked as a music director for Azam Khan, Niloy Das, Khalid Hasan Milu, Tapan Chowdhury, Rupam Islam, Hassan Abidur Reja Jewel, Alam Ara Minu, Jholo and many others.

Ayub Bachchu was renowned for his musical scoring of television commercials.

Ayub Bachchu wrote songs for Grameenphone, provided the tune and music arrangement for the song "Dol Lage Dol" for the local television channels on the occasion of the FIFA World Cup 2014.

Ayub Bachchu collaborated with Radio Foorti to bring new talents and fresh voices into the spotlight by giving them a platform to perform and shine.

Ayub Bachchu was one of the leaders of Bangladesh Musical Bands Association.

In Bangabandhu National Stadium, in the "T-20 World Cup 2014" opening ceremony, Ayub Bachchu got in a controversy with Hamin Ahmed of Miles, which led him to cancel the membership of the association.

Ayub Bachchu met Ferdous Akhtar Chondona in the early 1986, when he came to Dhaka to record his debut solo album Rokto Golap.

Ayub Bachchu said that, he fell in love with Chondona when he saw her picture stuck in his friend's mirror.

Ayub Bachchu was struggling to live in Dhaka and pay his rents in the hotel Blue Nile in 36, New Elephant Road, Dhaka.

Ayub Bachchu got back to Chittagong after the recording ended for his debut album.

Ayub Bachchu had fallen in love for the first time when he was a teenager.

Till the very day he died, Ayub Bachchu had no less than 60 guitars in his collection, which he took care of like a father does to his children.

Ayub Bachchu's beloved offspring Tazwar and Fairuz still cannot hide their teary eyes.

Ayub Bachchu had cited Jimi Hendrix as the "biggest influence on his guitar playing".

Ayub Bachchu has cited Steve Vai and Joe Satriani as a big influence on his playing.

Ayub Bachchu recruited Abdullah al Masud as the rhythm guitarist of the band.

Also, Ayub Bachchu was becoming interested in guitarists like John Petrucci, Jason Becker, Rusty Cooley and Sacred Mother Tongue guitarist Andy James.

At the time of his death, Ayub Bachchu had a collection of 65 guitars.

Ayub Bachchu mostly played Ibanez guitars, particularly the Carvin guitar.

Ayub Bachchu used Carvin Kiesel guitars, Dean Rusty Cooley RC6 and Michael Angelo Batio.

Ayub Bachchu owned various signature guitars by some of his favorite guitarists, including a Steve Vai JEM Junior White, Jason Becker JB200C.

Ayub Bachchu did not make the guitar playing very critical note after note.

Ayub Bachchu's singing style has often been found similar to Adhunik bangla musicians.

Ayub Bachchu's high pitched screaming in the LRB songs "Gotokal Raate" and "Khoniker Jonno", from the band's third album Shukh, has been cited similar to the high pitched vocals of Ian Gillan of Deep Purple.

Ayub Bachchu was inspired by him to write and sing rock songs in Bengali.

Ayub Bachchu's lyrics are inspired by the Eagles, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Ayub Bachchu has stated that the lyrics' of the Eagles songs "Witchy Woman" and "Hotel California" are one of his most favorite lyrics.

In 2009, Ayub Bachchu underwent a successful heart valve surgery and became a regular patient at the Square Hospital.

Ayub Bachchu was admitted to the Square Hospital on 27 November 2012.

Ayub Bachchu was admitted in the Coronary Care Unit under supervision of Dr Mirza Nizamuddin of the hospital.

Ayub Bachchu was found dead on arrival after he reached the hospital at 9:40 am.

Ayub Bachchu was declared dead at the Square Hospital, Dhaka.

Ayub Bachchu's body was taken to Chittagong City on 20 October 2018 in his maternal house in East Madarbari.

Ayub Bachchu was taken in the Jamaitul Falah Mosque for his 4th and last Janaza.

Ayub Bachchu was buried in the graveyard of Chaitanya Goli, beside his mother's grave.

Ayub Bachchu's death is an irreparable loss for Bangladeshi music.

Ayub Bachchu ranked second on The Top Tens list of "Top 10 Greatest Guitarist of Bangladesh".

Ayub Bachchu is credited for popularizing rock music in Bangladesh in the 1990s as the frontman of LRB and as a solo artist, along with Nagar Baul, Miles and Ark.

Ayub Bachchu is considered to be one of the "big three rockstars of Bangladesh" along with Azam Khan and James.

Ayub Bachchu is considered to be the first electric guitarist in Bangladesh to use distortion in songs.

Ayub Bachchu made sure that it was the heart and soul of his music, and the entire country followed.

Ayub Bachchu was one of the pioneers of Bengali rock music.

Ayub Bachchu became a family friend when I was in Bangladesh.