Miles is a Bangladeshi rock band formed in

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on 1 August 1979 by Farid Rashid. They released their self titled debut studio album ''

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'' in 1982, which contained English numbers. They released their second album ''A Step Farther'' in 1986. After four years, they released their third studio and first Bengali album ''Protisruti (Promise)'' in 1991.

History

Their first album, ''Miles'', was produced in 1982 including five original songs and seven cover songs. Their second album, '' A Step Farther'' was released in 1986 and it consisted of 7 original and 5 cover songs. Their first Bengali album, ''Protisruti'', was released in 1991. It included 12 original Bengali songs. Their second Bengali album, ''Prottasha'', was released in 1993. The fourth Bengali album, ''Probaho'', was produced in 1999. In 2011, Grameenphone announced that it would release their album ''Proticchobi''. The album was released in 2015.

Concerts

From 1979 to 1982, Miles played at the Chambeeli Super Club at the Hotel Intercontinental in Dhaka five nights a week. They went on to perform on

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. In 1982, Miles made their first appearance in public concert at Shilpakala Academy Auditorium in Dhaka. In 1991, they performed their first concert outside Bangladesh, in

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. In 1992, Miles performed in the very first BAMBA concert. They signed a lucrative sponsor deal with

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in 1995 where exclusive concerts were held in Bangladesh. In 1996 and 1998 they went back to India to perform in

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. In 1996 they did a major tour in the United States and Canada over two months. They performed in

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and

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. In 1999, they performed in a large concert at Chittagong stadium with over 30,000 attending. Miles toured Australia and Italy in 2008. In 2010, Miles performed mainly in stadium concerts across the country, in cities including Rangpur, Comilla, Mymensingh, Khulna, Rajshahi, Chittagong and Dhaka. In 2012, Miles started their 30-year anniversary tour by performing in cities of America including Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Jose and Seattle. In 2019, ''Miles 40th Anniversary'' was celebrated by touring and performing in USA's Jersey City, Alexandria, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, Atlantic City, Phoenix, San Jose, Tampa, Buffalo, Detroit, Columbus, West Lafayette, Dallas and Canada's Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and also Australia's Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne as well as Bangladesh's Chittagong and a grand concert in Dhaka.

Members

Present members * Hamin Ahmed –

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

lead guitars Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featured ...

* Manam Ahmed – keyboards * Syed Ziaur Rahman Turjo –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

* Iqbal Asif Jewel –

Past members * Shafin Ahmed –

bass guitars The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an electric but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

* Farid Rashid –

* Kamal Mainuddin –

* Happy Akhand – keyboards,

* Larry Burnaby –

* Ishtiaq –

rhythm guitars In music performances, rhythm guitar is a guitar technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass ...

* Shahedul Huda –

* Musa –

* Robin – keyboards * Milton Akbar –

* Mahbubur Rashid –

* Khayem Ahmed –

* Faysal Ahmed Tanim –

Discography

References

External links

Miles – Official Facebook Page
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Miles 1979 establishments in Bangladesh Musical groups established in 1979 Bangladeshi rock music groups