Mohammad Abdul Jabbar (10 February 1938 – 30 August 2017) was a Bangladeshi singer. ''"Tumi Ki Dekhechho Kobhu Jiboner Porajoy"'', ''"Salam Salam Hajar Salam"'' and ''" Joy Bangla, Banglar Joy"'' were three of his songs which made it to the top 20 all-time Bangla songs in 2006 survey by the

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. He was awarded

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in 1980 and

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in 1996 by the

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Early life and career

Jabbar was born in

Kushtia Kushtia ( bn, কুষ্টিয়া) is a city in the Khulna Division of southwestern Bangladesh. Kushtia is the second largest municipality in Bangladesh and the eleventh largest city in the country. The second largest city in Khulna div ...

. He passed SSC in 1956. He first took music lesson from Muhammad Osman in Kushtia and later from Moksed Ali Shai, Lutfel Haque and Shibkumar Chatterjee in

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. In 1958, lyricist

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helped Jabbar get listed as an artiste of the radio station. He debuted his playback singing career in 1962 with music director

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. In 1964, he was enlisted as a TV artiste. In 1969, Jabbar founded a musical group ''Bangabandhu Shilpagosthi''. On 25 March 1971, he crossed the border into India and gradually joined a host of artistes of the

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. After the independence of Bangladesh, he started performing as a film playback singer. In 2008, after a five-decade career of playback singing, he started working on his only album Kothay Amar Neel Doriya, which was released in 2017. The songs of the album are written by lyricist Md Amirul Islam and composed by

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In the same year, he opened an album with songs on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( bn, শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib and widely known as Bangabandhu (meaning ''Friend of Bengal''), was a Bengalis, Beng ...

. The album remains unfinished as this great artiste fell ill seriously before giving voice to the song titled " Bangabandhu Dekhechi Tomay Dekhechi Muktijuddho " penned by lyricist Amirul Islam. Jabbar served as the president of ''Bangladesh Sangskritik Parishad''.

Personal life

Jabbar was married to Halima Jabbar. Together they had two sons and one daughter Mithun Jabbar, Jasmin Jabbar and Babu Jabbar.

Awards

* Bangabandhu Padak (1973) *

(1980) *

(1996) *

Bachsas Awards Bachsas ( Bangladesh Cholochitra Sangbadik Samity) Awards was introduced in 1972 to encourage the fledgling film industry of the country. Bangladesh Cholochchitra Shangbadik Samity (Bangladesh Cine-Journalists' Association) gave out their most p ...

(2003) * Citycell-Channel i Music Awards – Lifetime Achievement Award (2011) * Zahir Raihan Chalachchitra Purashkar *

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Film songs

List of selected songs

Musical albums

Songs of album '' Kothay Amar Neel Doriya''

Death

Jabbar was admitted to

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(BSMMU) on 1 August 2017 with kidney, cardiovascular, prostate and other ailments. He was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as his health condition deteriorated. He died on 30 August 2017 at the ICU of the hospital while undergoing treatment.

References

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