Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) will host an evening with Ghazal to be performed by Ghazal singer Manzurul Islam Khan on 4 December, 2015 at 6:00pm in Dhanmondi branch of AFD.

Journalist Kamal Lohani will be present at the event as chief guest.

A celebrated classical singer Manzurul Islam Khan — a new Ghazal sensation of Bangladesh — has been singing since 1982. He started his singing journey from Chhayanaut and also completed Master in Music from Bombay University, India.

He rendered a number of Ghazals including some Bangla songs of Jagjit Singh — all to the utter perfection that any second singer could dare to try. The noted Indian Musician Prodip Ghosh rightly conferred him the title ‘Banglar Jagjit’.

He received further Talim from Ustad Azad Rahman, Ustad Sanjib Dey, Aminul Haque, Ustad Amjad Rahman in Bangladesh and Ustad Usman Khan, Ustad Sanjoy Chakrabarty in India. The singer is better known as an avid follower of Ghazal legend Jagjit Singh. He also got his Talim from Jagjit Singh for a short time.

Manzurul Islam Khan has been performing his solos at some selected places of Bangladesh and India since 1994, enthralling and captivating the audience to the heights of spiritual yearnings and ecstasy. He aspires to continue singing as long as he can and contribute to the world of Bangla version of Ghazals bringing in a shift in its ‘gaayaki’ (rendition) altogether.

Despite the fact that Ghazals have passed many evolutionary stages through many maestros in the field, it was usually confined to the niche of audiences of the society, who understood the technicalities of classical singing and the finer forms of Urdu poetry. Manzurul Islam Khan believes that he is able to contribute in perceiving form where the lyrical Ghazal can emerge with profoundness.