Latiful Islam Shibli

He was born in just before the dawn of first day of Bengali New year. It was the dawn of an Independent Bangladesh as well when the country was at the most critical stage in its history. At a turning moment of the war, when the allied forces start shelling over the targets of Pakistani armies at the bank of Bahadurabad, Fulchori (Rangpur), a frightened little boy on the lap of his Freedom Fighter father cried out by praying “O’ Allah! Please protect us’. This was the story that was told by his mother in one rainy day.

Time flies indeed! Such a scared kid of ‘71 dared to frighten the dictatorial regime of 90’s with his juvenile rocking moves trumpeted up in the sky by breaking the shackles of traditions.

The branches of his artistic aptitudes creeping up with his joining the Group-theatre Nattochakra in early ‘90

Shibli is one of those young wild but sensible band musicians who had brought changes in the prevailed concepts of modern Bangla songs. His lyrics reflect the feelings of contemporary young minds which are suffered from painful and complex dilemma of materialistic life. His rule of Simplification in his scholarly works has made him widely known in Bangladesh within a short span of time. He is now no less a Legend Lyricist in the world of Bangla Band Music.