Sohrab Hossain
April 9, 1922 –December 27, 2012
Singer
Lived 90 years
- Born in
- Nadia district
- Passed away in
- Dhaka
Sohrab Hossain (9 April 1922 – 27 December 2012) was a Bangladeshi singer and an exponent of Nazrul Sangeet. From his childhood, he was interested in music and started learning music. He met singer Abbas Uddin in a function in Ranaghat. Then he went to Kolkata. In Kolkata with the help of Abbas Uddin he started working on a music album but could not finish it.
After the partition of India, he came back to Dhaka where he got a Government job. With the musical troupe of Abbas Uddin he performed all over Bangladesh. He worked as a playback singer in several movies. He was also a teacher of few musical institutions.
Hossain received the Independence Day Award in 1980.
Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Hossain