Bangladeshi artist juel become a kwaito star in South Africa
Online Desk :
Juel Chowdhury started singing and acting at the age of 9, first when he was appearing BTV from Gandaria Kochi Kachar Ashor at 1979. Thhen he finished his schooling from Gandaria High School and HSC from the Kabi Nazrul College and started acting on BTV as a casual artist .He started acting in several drama serials on BTV. He also participated in a couple of Magazine Programs namely Antaranga and Upohar.He has acted in a famous BTV drama serial called Kon Kanoner Ful. He started playing guitar and join the band called MUSIC TOUCH, a famous song of the Band is Chol Koira Shob Kaira Nili where he was the bass guitarist. He has performed several music shows on BTV with his Band.
In 1994 he complted Masters Degree from Jagannath university in Management and in 1996 he left Bangladesh for higher studies in South Africa and received a Bachelors degree from UNISA. Now he is doing private business in South Africa and doing music side by side.
He performed his music on SABC 1 and SABC 3 (South African Broadcasting Corporation) their national TV channel where Shahriar Chowdhury Juel had performed many times.and has been playin national radio station ukhozi fm, metro fm, umhlobo nene, kwekeze fm and local radio radio station alex fm.
He was the headline news on the national newspaper called The Star in 2011 because his House (name of a music Genre) album Pain Killer was playing all over in South Africa
In 2015 he was featuring South African award winning artist Emtee and best award winning artist Sjava. Show Me The Money was street anthem in South Africa. And then he released his Hindi single Sarab, a Multilingual track (Hindi, Zulu, Sotho) has become famous in South African music industry as a proud Bangladeshi to hoist the Bangladesh flag in South Africa.
In future, he wants to work with famous Bangladeshi female singer Mehreen, Oyshee, Pothik Nabi, James Nagar Baul set in Bangladesh.
In 1990, he was attending International Songwriting Competition by Hollywood artist recording company in USA. .Out of 1000 songs, .a group of songs were preliminary selected and his written song Who’s That Boy was one of them. National daily newspaper The New Nation had published his hustle history to inspire him to keep his music journey going.
Full name shahriar ali chowdhury stage name juel, also known juelz, and juel chowdhury.
He took Music inspirations from his favorite artist guru Azam Khan, Ayub Bachchu, James and Carlos Santana, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Boney M. and Deep Purple etc.