Ekattor TV's 'Music Buzz' has catapulted into major mainstream popularity since its beginning in July 2012. By its 50th episode, it had already become the most watched musical show on TV. Popular TV anchor, Alif Alauddin, is hosting this show with a new face, Farshid Alam- a classic case of 'tall, dark and handsome'. Even though he is a new face on TV, he has been around in the music scene, with style, for quite some time now. Let's hear his story from none other than Farshid himself!

Farshid hosting 'Music Buzz' with Alif Alauddin

“These days music is all I am doing. I wake up at nine; get done with breakfast by ten and start practicing piano lessons that I am taking from Romel Ali (former keyboardist of Warfaze who played with Air Supply and performed at the Latin Grammy). Then there're new compositions that are roaming around my head every now and then.
Whatever it is that I am now, started (officially) way back in 2001 when I first stepped on a stage crowded with a band of six members at American Club, on new-year's-eve. The band was called PENTAGON, one of the gurus in the club music scenario from 1993. That was it! I set my sail for music as one of the vocalists with Pentagon and continued until 2009.  It gave me the lifestyle that any musician at that age could only dream of. Performing twice or thrice a week/day was how my youth was spent.
Before that, music was a hobby with friends. The earliest bands that I played in were CELCIUS and ELIXIR. Elixir released an album called 'Dhushor Jol Chobi'  and became popular among its niche audience, while Celcius, was ear candy for the Russian Cultural Centre crowd, being the only slow and soft sounding band in concerts full of metal bands. We did a lot of gigs, but I, the bassist, didn't have a bass guitar. So I had to struggle to borrow one every time we practiced or performed.
Then in 2009, I chose a different path to be the one thing I always wanted to be, 'bassist and vocalist' in BOHEMIAN. We performed many gigs, released 2 albums- Babodhan and Surjo, had our singles out in many mixed albums ( rock 202, 303, 505, Hatiyar), and pushed our way at top position in the 'City Cell Channel I Music Awards' in 2012 by winning in the category of 'BEST BAND- Popular Choice'.

Farshid works the IUB crowd as the 'Vocabassist' of Bohemian

The next best thing that happened to BOHEMIAN was 'SOUTH ASIAN BAND FEST', a concert that happens every year in India with top bands from South Asian countries. That year we were chosen to represent Bangladesh (as did Miles, Nagar Baul and Souls in previous years). We were escorted from the air port; the security didn't even check us seeing all the guitars, accommodated at the Hotel Ashok. I mean talk about rock star life style- we were in it! The greatest thing about our performance there was with every beat, with every guitar solo, and with every scream the people roared with us.
Only recently, I found a new side of me that I never thought I had. Alif Alauddin (Deputy Editor, Music, Ekattor TV) called me up out of the blue to co-host a new TV show called 'Music Buzz'. I jumped into it. Planning and hosting the show showed me how much I want to stick to visual media. The show runs twice a week- Fridays and Saturdays at 11:30 AM, with the top rating among any musical show in any channel in the country. I see myself helping the listeners to see and decide for themselves what's good or bad in the music scene in Bangladesh as well as in the Billboard. As for the reviews, we found the target audience isn't the only viewers of the show, but Music Buzz is pulling audience from various age groups. That was absolutely a surprise.”