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Freedom fighter Lucky Akhand, who is also popular singer and composer of Bangladesh and an original artiste of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, has fought a long battle with lung cancer. He has spent almost his entire life in this industry, and is now seeking help from the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for his own treatment. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in September last year, and has already gone through a surgery and a series of chemotherapy sessions abroad, but apparently refraining from taking five more chemotherapy sessions as prescribed by the physician due to a financial crisis. Later he asked for help from the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and also his fans. Lucky has been lucky enough because his fans have come together to stand beside him. Fans and friends of Lucky are arranging some events by which they can contribute to Lucky’s treatment for the next step. Dhaka University Band Society has arranged a two day long concert at TSC Auditorium, University of Dhaka, titled “A tribute to Lucky Akhond,” and bands are performing. Tahsan and band, Avoid Rafa, Arbovirus, Old School, Ashes, Shohojia, Chatak, Doorgo, War sight, Unspecified, Apekhik, Arjon, Hash, Orb of Winter, Manab, Aggyatonama, and other bands along with Dhaka University Cultural Society are performing for two days. There is no fixed ticket price for the concert. Anyone can donate any amount of money they want, but visitors have to pay Tk50 to enter the concert. Artists from Toronto are also trying to collect funds for Lucky. They organised a musical evening on July 30, through which they tried to collect funds for the singer. Talented and creative optimiser is arranging another concert at Oxford house, London, on August 30. Artists who live in London will be attending this concert only for Lucky. Apart from the concert, Obscure - one of Bangladesh's leading bands has announced that they will donate their proceedings  to Lucky. Tipu, vocalist of Obscure said, "Artists should stand for another artist. It is our duty to stay beside any artist and we are only fulfilling our duty." Before them, Tahsan expressed the same sentiments on his social media account. Tahsan posted, “We are not here to ‘help’ Lucky Akhand, we are doing our best to show him our respect.” Fahmida Nabi, another popular singer says, “It is our bad luck that every time we become helpless when any artist needs such help.” There are many artists who have stood by him from the very beginning. Lyricist Asif Iqbal is one of them. Kumar Bishwajit, Ayub Bachchu, Fuad Naser Babu, Fahmida Nabi, and Labu Rahman. Tahsan and many more have extended a helping hand. As we all know, Lucky Akhond is not only a singer, he is a composer and lyricist too. Akhond started his career with the self-titled solo album Lucky Akhond in 1984. The record was released from the label Sargam. Some of the notable songs on that album were “Agey jodi jantam,” “Amay dekona,” “Mamonia,” “Ei neel monihar” and “Hridoy amar”. He wrote songs for his brother’s album Happy Akhond, in which “Abar elo je shondha” and “Ke bashi bajaire” were sung by Lucky,  and “Shadinota tomake niye,” “Pahari jhorna” were sung by Happy Akhand in a duet. “Nil nil shari pore” and “Hothat kore Bangladesh” were also sung by Lucky. “Abar elo je shondha” was used in the Bangla film, Ghuddi in 1988.