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Noted band Shironamhin has turned 24 on April 14. The band celebrated the occasion releasing a song titled 'Cafeteria Periye' on its official Facebook page and YouTube channel. 'Cafeteria Periye' has been penned and tuned by chief of the band Ziaur Rahman Zia and the music video has been directed by Ashraf Shishir.
Shironamhin is an independent band from Dhaka, Bangladesh. They have presented orchestration with rock gesture in Bengali music. They have infused classical instruments such as sarod, cello, flute, esraj, violin and many more. It was founded in 1996 by Ziaur Rahman Zia with Jewel and Bulbul. Their first album Jahajee was released in 2004. Since they have released 5 studio albums and several mixed albums. Present members of this band are Ziaur Rahman (bass and compose), Kazi Ahmad Shafin (drums), Diat Khan (guitar), Symon Chowdhury (keyboard) and Sheikh Ishtiaque (vocal).
Shironamhin was founded by Ziaur Rahman Zia with Jewel as guitarist and Bulbul as vocal in 1996. In the beginning, they used to jam and perform in the university campus gossip areas and street crowd. Later, they started performing in the campus stage live performances bringing in some changes in the use of their musical instruments. They introduced plugged guitar and sarod along with drums in their music. Most of the songs they used to perform in stage shows were their own songs which were completely new for the audience. Their performance earned some fame for the lyrics and tune of their music.
During their early years of their band formation, in time to time they tried to record their own compositions in various studios which did not work in a result for a complete album. In the year 2000, Tanzir Tuhin joined Shironamhin as main vocal. He was a classmate of Ziaur in BUET. Farhan and Tushar joined the band in 2003. Farhan used to play sarod, dotara and Tushar played guitar. Kazi Ahmad Shafin joined the band in 2003 as a drummer. The band participated in the final round of the 2nd 'Star Search Competition' arranged by Benson and Hedges. The listeners' feedback made them feel the urge to frame their creations into an album. They had more than 50 songs which they used to sing on live performance. They compiled 10 out of them for their debut album jahajee. Diat khan as guitarist and Rashel Kabir as keyboardist joined the band in 2009 and 2010 respectively. In 2017, lead vocal Tanzir Tuhin left the band. Tuhin's decision emerged from the internal conflict. Then Sheikh Ishtiaque joined the band as vocal. At first the band was formed without a name and their very first performance was held at a programme at TSC auditorium, University of Dhaka. They went to perform there very casually and were not bothered to have a title of their group. But the audience became amazed by their stage performance and were asking about the band name. Then they instantly came up with the name Shironamhin.
Shironamhin, released their first album in 2004 after 8 years of the formation of the band. Last album of the band is Shironamhin Shironamhin was released on 19 July 2013. On 1 August 2008 Shironamhin obtained the membership of Bangladesh Music Bands Association (BAMBA).
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