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}} | genre = Contemporary }} Farzana Wahid Shayan (Bengali: ফারজানা ওয়াহিদ সায়ান, born on 2nd September 1976) is a Bangladeshi musician, singer, lyricist, poet, and a human rights activist based in Dhaka. At first sight, Farzana Wahid; also known by her stage name, Shayan, may not strike one as a conforming Bangladeshi musician. Bearing an unusual air, the singer is often clad in black garment with a guitar hanging loose on her back. Shayan's idiosyncratic style doesn't cease with her outer appearance; her poignant and thought provoking music have a resembling characteristic. Songs from Shayan's first album, Shayan’er Gaan, drifts away from the clamorous, conventional music of Bangladesh and resonates the type of music in her audiences' ears which were made by trend setting musicians like Azam Khan[1] and Maqsood in the 70s and 80s. Shayan's most beloved and loyal companion to most of her music, her guitar; symbolic to a weapon, complimented by her powerful voice, sweeps her listeners off their feet. Presently, Shayan's music have transcended all the social boundaries of cast, ethnicity, religion, gender, age and nationality. A self-taught artiste, Shayan may not have the repute which a classical school of musician may have; nonetheless, the way she articulates her true emotions – by the means of her songs – is something any genuine musician is ought be proud of. This is precisely the reason why Shayan's songs have been deemed by many Bengali music connoisseur to reflect a new trend of ‘Protest Music'[2]. Personal LifeEarly Life:Farzana Wahid Shayan was born in 1976 in Montreal, Canada, but was brought back to her ancestral home, Bangladesh, by her parents at a tender age of only 7 months, granting her an upbringing in the city of Dhaka in the first 21 years of her life. Quite often, she refers this incident as a very significant one for moulding her mind, which had a distinct role to play in her creative endravours. In her opinion, if she haven't had a chance to live the early years of her life in Bangladesh, Shayan's journey with Bengali music would not have been the same. Both of her parents had musicality in their blood and life style. Her father, M. Khasru Wahid, was a professional singer at his prime, who sang modern Bengali songs, and her mother, Najma Banu, who didn't pursue a career in music, however was completely absorbed in a life that valued music of exquisite nature. Incidentally, unlike most of her peers, Shayan's childhood was full of toils and troubles. When the lyricist was as young as 5 and her younger brother, Ershad Wahid, only 17 months old; her parents got divorced that left Shayan as a child in distress, and there were manifestations of emotional turmoils from a very early age. Despite many traumatising ordeals, Shayan credits her mother the most to come out as a grateful person, and turn out to be more functional – given all the adversities she has faced throughout her life. Due to this, the music composer was more inclined to work in the field of mental health and holistic well being of people with her music, as she has come to believe – from her personal experiences in life – that no matter how bad encounters a person has in his life, one can always turn around his life with his attitude, willpower, proper care and being honest to himself, and can eventually have a stable life, provided – that the person must have adequate intelligence to comprehend the realities of life and beyond. Compassion, empathy and the proper understanding of the universe can aid people to be in touch with their inner world, and put them in touch with every other living beings around them, and make life more meaningful – no matter what happened in the past, and that is the message Shayan tries to spread through her music. Family Background:Shayan has been singing since she was about ten or twelve years old. Back then, she used to sing alongside her grandfather Wahid Uddin Ahmed, who was an admirer of culture, art and a dedicated singer himself, and the music maestro Abdul Latif [3]. They were her most intimate friends at that juncture of Shayan's life. Despite belonging to a family where almost everyone had a connexion with music, amongst whom her paternal uncle, Ferdos Wahid[4], the pop star of the 80s the 90s, and her paternal cousin, Habib Wahid[5], are the most popular ones. Despite that, Shayan did not tread upon the mainstream musical path her other family members did. Predominantly because, from the very beginning, Shayan's music genre has been an unconventional, philosophical and lyric oriented one. One of the most distinguished features of Shayan is that, she writes her own lyrics and composes tunes for them herself [6]. And in this journey, Shayan's younger brother, Ershad Washid; who is her musical soul buddy, is the first listener of most of Shayan's songs, and does all her music arrangements since 2009, and together, they do many project's to proliferate awareness on different social issues. Moreover, from her paternal family, Shayan's musical affinity is much more with her uncle, Faruk Wahid, who is a violin Ustad (teacher), and a devotee of Indian classical music, art and culture. Apart from her father's family, it was her mother whose musicality influenced Shayan the most, and exposed her to various kinds of melodies as a child, since whenever her mother used to practise music at home, Shayan used to sit by her quietly and learn. Evidently, it was also a single mother's life struggle and her thoughtfulness which had taught Shayan to harness patience, and perseverance to attain excellence in whatever she did in life, and inspired Shayan to ventilate those experiences in the form of her lyrics. Therefore, the singer gives her mother the full credit for all the blissful things that had transpired in Shayan's life[7]. Marriage:In the year 2004, Shayan got married to Mir Mubashir Ahmad, but after 8 years of marriage, in 2012, they initiated a divorce. Currently, the musician is single and she never had a child. EducationEarly Education:Farzana Wahid's formal academic schooling days were spent in Dhaka, and following her schools years, Shayan had received her SSC[8] in the year 1993. In 1995, she had attained her HSC[9] accreditation after finishing her college years. At the age of 21, in the year 1997, Shayah had left for Toronto, Canada [10], to do her under-graduation in Psychology in Seneca College[11](1997 to 2001)[12] but halfway through her course, she came back to Bangladesh in the year 2001. Graduation:Shayan did her under-graduation in Law, LLB,[13] as a Distant Programme Student[14] in Dhaka, under the University of London[15], and had finished the course in the year 2006. In 2016, she had completed her Masters in Law, LLM,[16] from the University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka[17]. CareerLaw:In the early days of Shayan's legal career, she had taught the subject as a tutor in different law academies in Dhaka, and has also worked with several law firms as a Human Rights Worker[18], and a junior assistant for more than a decade, until the year 2018 [19]. Thenceforth, she was completely engrossed in music. The experiences Shayan had gathered while working in the law field had made a tremendous impact on her song writing. However, the singer had deliberately avoided the court, as she considered the work of a lawyer a full-time job, and being a full-time musician that would not have been possible for her. Nonetheless, Shayan needed to have a backup profession to support herself, because like any other musician in Bangladesh, she too was doubtful about making a career in music that would provide a humble living, especially because of the unconventional nature of Shayan's style of lyrics, which fall afar from the popular mainstream music of Bangladesh. Maintaining dual lives: one in the legal field and the other in music had been very strenuous and difficult for the musician. It took Shayan as long as 10 years to come up with a style of music which would talk about awareness of different social issues, whilst being able to make a humble living just by pursuing music, since in Bangladeshi music industry, advocacy through music had never been considered before. Early Music Life:Since her childhood, Shahnaj Rahmatullah[20] was Shayan's idol in music. In those days, being able to sing like the famous singer was the only purpose of her life. At a tender age of fourteen, Shayan had begun trying her hand in writing her own lyrics and composing her own music. As a teenager, she used to write songs which were primarily about love affairs. But as she was inching towards her adolescence, Shayan's perspective had also started to mature up and she began writing songs about life, especially after she turned 25. While Shayan was in Canada, between the years 1997 to 2001, those were the best years of Shayan's life, as in those 4 years she had got the opportunity to experiment with lyrics when she attempted to write on different themes. Shayan's songs: Aiburi, Hariye Jawa bondhu, Tajjob Bone Jai, Shundor Hobo, Putrer Hate Dhorshita, Shonar Bangla Shonar Hole, Oth Mon Oth Na, Ore Amar Chokher Jol, Firtey Ghore Bhoy, Jabo Ebar Jabo were written during that period, which encompassed variety of themes and issues such as: protest, prayers, love affairs, depression, patriotism, women rights, humanity and youth spirit. Albums Released1st Album:Whilst young Shayan was living in Toronto, Canada, she used to sing her own written songs only out of pleasure. Slowly but surely, she had started to receive invitations to sing her songs in various Bengali communities in Canada. In those days, many of her friends and acquaintances had suggested Shayan to publish a music album. Such requests and inquisitiveness of people had motivated the young singer a lot which prompted Shayan to prepare herself to get an album published. But since she was struggling to blend in a new environment and society, and a new academic institution – far from her native land, where she had left a piece of her heart – Shayah did not have the luxury to venture into a music career at that time. At length, when she came back to Bangladesh in 2001, Shayan had contributed seven years of her life into writing and composing her very first solo album. Albeit, initially she had to strive a lot to find a music company which would be willing to invest in the type of songs Shayan sang, and at one point, she was quite demoralised as no commercial music banner was interested to gamble with a newcomer in the industry. But eventually, some of her friends and family members had come forward, and established the music company Gaanpoka, under which Shayan's first album, 2nd Album:Shayan's 2nd release was an album with two CDs titled, 3rd Album:The singer's 3rd album Single Track:In the year 2017, a single track of Shayan, Music InfluenceShayan finds life to be her first teacher, muse and influence. Notwithstanding that, she admits her debt of knowledge to some of the most renowned global musicians from the yesteryear, and as well as from the present music scene, such as: Shahnaz Rahmatullah, Lata Mangeshka, Kishore Kumar, Hemonto Mukherjee, Nikhil Banerjee, Rabindronath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Buddadeb Basu, Shumon Chattapaddhyay, Bhupen Hazarika, Farida khanum, Mehdi Hassan, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman and Leonard Cohen only to name a few, who had a tremendous influence on her musicality.[24] MuseShayan writes, tunes and sings her own songs which she considers a life saving practice from a very early age, and prefers to sing with a purpose she discerns more constructive and rewarding. Shayan writes topic based songs as a part of her passion and profession, and she gathers her muse from the life she leads and the characters she is surrounded by. Which is why she does not have to borrow materials for her songs from other sources. The topics of Shayan's songs usually deal with random tales from her personal life, feminism, child rights, patriotism, humanity, compassion, youth spirit and mental health which she interprets in her own terms that spread through various degrees[25]. Through her songs Shayan endeavours to depict the authentic picture of the ordinary mass, their exploitation and various kinds of social injustices carried out upon them by different classes of our society. Thus, her songs are intended to convey a plea or a prayer, and a protest to her fellow people she sings to. In Shayan's songs, she speaks of the spirits of all living things, whilst fondling the soothing air of love and unity. Due to this, she labels her songs as GenreChiefly, Shayan's music can be categorised as Contemporary Bengali music, though she would like to classify them as: ' The song, ' In 'Janatar Biyadobbi In the song, 'O Neta Bhai', Shayan criticises the status of student politics in our country today. She deciphers that what was once a platform responsible for verbalising some of the most daring protests – especially during the freedom struggle in 1971 – today is being overshadowed and perverted by corrupt politicians: ‘O neta bhai, amay tumi bolle na to aage,Desher Junno kaaj korile, gola barudh lage,O neta bhai, amaye keno chao dite bondook,Guli bojhai keno tomar lukono sindook.Palay jabo kosom khuda, dekbe na aar chaya,Aaaj desher jone piriti, tobu praaner junno maya,O neta bhai, amar bishon bachte icche kore,Baba maaer shonge boshe, naasta khabo ghore.' In this particular song, Shayan narrates a fictional story of a student who wants to get out of politics, and stops working for his country in order to save his own life. Furthermore, this song quite aptly describes the decadence which is crippling the student politics of Bangladesh permanently. In her song, Konta porityajjo aar konta dorkari.....' Through this kind of lyrics, Shayan has been contriving to create awareness among the masses about their legal rights as citizens of a Democratic country, and reviving their conscience which got buried under ignorance and injustice.[26] PhilosophyLife:Shayan's songs are witty and gutsy; besides such features there is another reason because of which this singer has captured the attention of many: it is the underlying philosophical aspect of her lyrics and poetry. The singer always lives in the moment and she believes that life is a gift that should be cherished, and relished with a balance. In her sight, no human being is superior or inferior to one another; it is the soul within a human being that defines a person's importance on this earth. No matter how big a name one makes, a human being is nothing in the grand scheme of this vast universe.[27] Music:Presently, in Bangladesh, the singers who are doing music with proper understanding of the craft by learning it; Shayan is the most note worthy among them. She has never favoured the idea of becoming a celebrity over night – by winning some kind of reality show or merely by learning a few techniques of the sacred art. Shayan took formal classical training as a young girl, and even today, she pursues to learn pure music rather persistently. Without chasing after fame, Shayan wants to continue her work upon practical and realistic music.[28] Love:The singer once mentioned in an interview that she finds love to be the essence of life. And she went further expounding upon it that it is not just the romantic love that binds our species together, but rather, it is the affection for any living life form that co-exist with us in the bosom of Mother Earth. Shayan believes that a human being is born with certain characteristics and fragrance of his own, just the way a plant and a bird is born. She defines love as embracing a human being as it is, without trying to impose some kind of rule or regulation to be in tough with one another. If some one lays out this sort of terms and conditions for social engagement, then this certainly can't be love[29]. Appearance:Shayan always maintains a short hair cut and wears black shirts and pants. Observing her attire and demeanour, often people are misguided to reckon that the singer is trying to reflect her rebellious attitude or trying to be equal to men. But in reality, that is not remotely the case. The whole look of hers is actually based on her taste. From a very early age, Shayan did not have the least interest in grooming herself like rest of her peers. In her opinion, clothing is needed to conceal one's private parts and that's why putting on any kind of decent outfit is sufficient for her. Until Shayan had reached to a certain age group, her mother used to bicker a lot about the way she dressed up. But since Shayan was old enough, and could take her own decisions of life, she has been dressing up the way she does now. The different types of dresses women wear never really bore much charm for her. But that does not mean that she despises them. When Shayan was much younger and had to go to a party, and her mother used to ask her what she wanted to wear, Shayan always used to go for Sarees. She thinks, there is no other outfit better than Saree that brings forth a woman's beauty. However, Shayan never suggests that for herself. She believes that there is nothing to improve as far as her looks are concerned.[30] Social ActivitiesSince the very beginning of her career, Shayan has been working closely with different kinds of human rights organizations. By the means of her music and legal expertise, the singer has been contributing in our society to change it for betterment. Shayan knows that her songs are not feeding her, but it certainly has rendered her an identity; for many people want to listen to her music. Shayan is not the kind of musician who would abandon her music out of sheer frustration. She considers it a personal struggle to convey her music to the people, and continues to tread upon this path – against the tide – and plans to continue her battle in the future. It is quite likely that she will not die of hunger, but like every living being; one day, she too will fall in a slumber and embark upon the land from where no one has ever returned. But her music will linger on this earth and in the hearts of Bengali speaking people – forever. External links1. TEDx Talk Dhaka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqJHF_maQ7U&feature=share 2. NTV Interview (Taaza Cha Adda): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ZoVy8pCdk&feature=share 3. Shayan's Blog Site:http://shayanerkotha.blogspot.com References |
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