Fuad Almuqtadir, born 6 August 1980 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, is a Bangladeshi composer and musician known as Fuad. After relocating to New York in 1988, he began writing music during his teenage years and self-released his first full-length album, Maya, in 1998. His breakthrough came with the 2005 album Re/Evolution, followed by Variation No. 25 (2006) and Chapter 2 (2007). In 2009, he issued Re‑defined and later Hit Factory (2015). Fuad also composed the official theme "Char Chokka Hoi Hoi" for the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and the Coke Studio Bangla track "Dewana" in 2023, marking his influence on contemporary Bangladeshi pop music.
