User:Anindasarker/sandbox

Aninda Sarker (born September 4th, 1986) is a Canadian/Bengali singer/songwriter/composer and a videographer. He can be found on YouTube, which is his primary medium.

Background
Born in Iran, Sarker's parents moved to Dhaka, Bangladesh when he was 10 months old. He spent the next 18 years of his life in Bangladesh. Being born in a family with a lot of musical background did aid to his choice in picking up music at a very early age. He attended The Aga Khan High School in Dhaka (which was known to produce talented and aspiring musicians) where he got his inspiration as well. He moved to Canada when he was 18 for higher education and took Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. He is currently settled in Toronto where he records and produces most of his songs/cover songs.

2000-2004: High School Life
After picking up the guitar in grade 8 he was ready for stage performance by grade 9. His prior vocal skills did help and he ended up performing and organizing a few sold out concerts in high school. After being in two different bands, he formed a band with his best friend Tasaddek Hossain and named it "Noxious Life". Sarker was the guitarist and co-vocalist of the band. The band seized to exist after high school as everyone went their own way for higher education.

2005-2010: University Life
During the first year, Sarker had the opportunity to play with various bands from different genres. His long term views did not coincide with any of the bands he played with. Finally, he decided to go solo and opened his own home studio named "Aninda S Productions". He released an EP containing 5 tracks in 2007. By then, he was playing close to two big shows a month. Later in 2007, Tasmiah Shafiq (guitars/keyboards)and Nabelah Khandkar (bass) joined his crew to help him out on stage. Since then, he has performed countless shows in Ottawa, a tour in Montreal and two live radio shows in Ottawa that featured all his originals.

2011-Present: Life on YouTube
Its during the summer of 2011 when he decided to take things up a notch. He decided to cover songs in his studio, do a video and post it up on YouTube. His main inspirations in this regard is Boyce Avenue, Tyler Ward and Alex Goot to name a few.

Album
Sarker is working on his album at the moment besides producing cover songs. He will starting recording his album starting January 2013.