(1950-2011) Azam Khan (Bangla: আজম খান) (full name Mahbubul Haque Khan, February 28, 1950-June 5, 2011 ) was a Bangladeshi pop singer. He was the pioneer in Bengali pop music launching and founded a band called "Uchcharon" with a literal meaning of "Enunciation" in the early 1970s.[1] He is honored as Guru of Pop Music in Bangladesh.[by whom?] He was a renowned freedom-fighter who fought against the Pakistani army in the Liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971.