Name	Rupam Islam
Height
Naionality	Indian
Date of Birth	January 25, 1974
Place of Birth	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Famous for	Singing

Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaRupam Islam (born 25 January 1974) is a playback singer, song writer, composer and the lead singer of the band Fossils. He is a recipient of National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer. He won the award in 2010, for his work in the film Mahanagar @ Kolkata. Rupam has been selected to be a member of the Government of West Bengal's cultural committee for music (Bangla Sangeet Academy).

Born on 25 January 1974 in a family of musicians, Rupam’s musical journey started fairly early under the tutelage of his parents, renowned musicians of their time: late Nurul Islam and late Chhandita Islam. By the age of 4, he was performing on stage with his parents' choir group Jhankar Shilpi Goshthhi.By 9, he was an empanelled child artiste of Aakashvani and Doordarshan and had performed at all leading auditoriums of Kolkata.

Education went hand-in-hand with music, and he graduated from Asutosh College, an affiliated college of the University of Calcutta with honors in English literature. He completed his Bachelor’s in Education (B.Ed) and joined Taki Boys Mulitipurpose School where he taught English to primary school students for eleven years before voluntarily retiring in 2006 to concentrate on his career in music.

In 1998, his band Fossils was born. In five years, they became the most popular Bangla rock band. As lyricist, music composer and lead vocalist, Rupam came to be identified as the face of the band. Fossils has had five super-hit albums, each of which has created one record or the other in the chartbusters.

After training in Indian classical music, Rupam’s first solo album Tor Bhorshate was released by HMV in 1998. The album was re-releaased as Neel Rong Chhilo Bhishon Priyo in 2003 and, on popular demand, was again re-released in CD format by SaReGaMa ten years after first hitting the market.

A duo album called RnB (Rupam and Bumpy) was released in 2007 and declared the most sold album of the year In 2010, Rupam released his second solo album called Na Hayante from SaReGaMa. It won him awards in Kolkata and the album was amongst the most sold albums of the year.

Rupam has composed title songs for TV programs and advertisement jingles for leading brands and has anchored several musical and chat shows on television. For more than a year in 2007-08, Rupam hosted an exclusive show called Rupam On The Rocks on Ananda Bazar Patrika’s Friends 91.9 FM.

Combining his two loves — music and literature — Rupam wrote his first book of songs, Epitaph, which was released in 2006 and became one of the most sought-after books at the Kolkata Book Fair. Rupam On The Rocks, his second book, was released at the Kolkata Book Fair 2009 and continues to remain one of Ananda Publishers’ hottest sellers. He also wrote a special column for the youth magazine Unish Kuri.

Rupam is now one of the busiest playback singers of Kolkata and has sung in more than 30 Hindi and Bengali films. Mahanagar@Kolkata", the film for which he won the National Award for best male playback singer in 2010, also marked his debut as music director. Rupam won a number of awards in the years 2009-2011 for his playbacks in different movies specially for Benche Thakar Gaan in Autograph and he also sang the song "ei srabon" for the film 22se srabon(2011). He also won the best modern singer award for his recent solo album 'Na Hanyate' at the Bangla Music Awards 2011'

In 2007, Rupam made his debut in Hindi playback in Vishesh Films' Jannat, directed by Kunal Deshmukh, where he sung the title song "Jannat Jahaan" and at the request of the producers, Rupam created a Bengali version of that song — "Jannat Takkai". This version got screened as well in theaters. Rupam sang "Dil Kare" in the film All the Bestin 2009 under the banner of Ajay Devgn Films; the director was Rohit Shetty.

Rupam has done the maximum number of playback singing for films among all the Bangla band singers. Some of them being Piyalir Password, Cholo Lets Go, Madly Bangaly, Kanchan Babu, Jiyo Kaka, Olotpalot, Shukno Lanka, Dwando, Angshumaner Chhobi, Aleya, Antim Swash Sundar,Mahanagar@Kolkata, Autograph etc.

Rupam is currently taking part in a TV show called R2T2 (Rock-e Rupam Tal-e Tanmoy). in this show both Rupam and eminent musician Tanmoy Bose are creating two different bands of two different genres.

Rupam is married to his long-time friend Rupsha Dasgupta. On 12 September 2010 they became parents of a baby boy, Rup Aarohan Prometheus Islam.