About Farid Ahmed
As the history of popular music develops, one fact shines through: talent wins. You can't cheat and survive for any length of time. You can't hype and fool people more than once. You can't hide behind image makers, or alluring videos, or the cut of this season's clothes. Or you can - but then you die. To survive you must evolve, improve, have faith, still thrill. Longevity depends on making the best music.
Farid Ahmed has never thought of popular music as a career: it's far more personal-more precious-than that. But he has always taken the long-term view, that ultimately an artist's achievement will not be judged in terms of number one singles, or magazine covers, or prestigious awards, but by a large body of work, a collection of albums over time, a lifetime's development in a form of art that no longer depends on shock or rebellion or the quick burn-out to make a mark.
Farid Ahmed was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At age 16 after his school final (S.S.C.), Farid started to practice guitar. Within a short time he started to play guitar with Firoz Shai, famous pop singer of that time. After that he started to play Bass guitar in radio, Television & film. He joined the musical group Dhaka Orchestra, which was famous for playing instruments in different songs & background music for documentary & feature films. After a few years he became a renowned music arranger & composer over two thousand songs for different films. Meanwhile in 1987 he started to tune song as a music director. "Tumi chara ami jeno moruvumi" sang by Kumar Bishwajit was his first tuned & composed song & the famous title song for "ITTYADI", the most popular magazine programme in BTV "Keu Keu Obiram Chupi Chupi" was his first tuned & composed Title song.
Farid attained legendary stature as a Music Director, when he started working background music for TV drama. Uttoradhikaar, a drama directed by the national award winner film director Harun-Or-Rashid (who won the national award for directing the film "MEGHER ONEK RONG") was the first music directed drama by Farid, After that he composed & still composing background music for a lot of dramas. Number of drama serial music directed by Farid is over 250 & single drama is over two thousand.
He also started to compose music for feature film but that time it was a bad period for feature film. A lot of disqualified film was produces in that time so he has to avoid music for film. But recently Farid worked for a film named "GOHINE SHOBDO" directed by KHALID MAHMUD MITHU which is released on 26th December 2009 on the Independence Day of Bangladesh.
Some of the popular title songs composed by Farid
| ITTYADI | Magazine program for BTV directed by Mr. Hanif Shongket |
| HRIDOY E MATI O MANUSH | An agriculture based magazine program for Channel-I directed by Mr. Shaikh Shiraj |
| KRISHI DIBANISH | An agriculture based magazine program for BTV directed by Mr. Shaikh Shiraj |
| SHERA KONTHO | A musical competition program for Channel-I |
| KHUDE GAANRAJ | A children´s musical competition program for Channel-I |
| HORLICKS GENIOUS BANGLADESH | A children´s quiz program directed by Mr. Abdun Noor Tushar for NTV |
| AMAR CHANNEL-I | Theme song for Channel-I |
| CHANEL-I ER AZ JONMODIN | Birthday song for Channel-I |
| KRISHOKER EID ANONDO | Eid magazine program for Channel-I with farmer´s directed by Mr. Shaikh Shiraj |
| STATION ID, NEWS MUSIC, KRISHI SHONGBAAD MUSIC etc. | For Channel-I |
| STATION ID | For BANGLA TV (UK) |
