Saidus Salehin Khaled Sumon

In 2016 he released his first solo bass album named "Soul Food Part 1".In the album, Sumon collaborated and featured world-renowned musicians, the likes of Felix Pastorius, Robert ‘Bubby’ Lewis, Josh Cohen, Bob Franceschini, J.D. Blair and Erfan Nazem Zadeh. Talented Bangladeshi drummer Mark Don is also featured in one of the tracks.

After the release of Aurthohin's fourth album, ' Dhrubok', Sumon's health deteriorated. In 2011, it was announced that he had a spine and stomach cancer. After surgery and chemotherapy, Sumon was pronounced cancer-free in 2013. He also suffered from skin cancer and a brain tumour. He wrote a song about his illness, "Cancer", which appeared on ' Aushomapto 2'. Later cancer came back several times but he recovered. He also had a road accident and broke several bones including some discs. He also had a stroke and the left side of his body was paralysed for almost 2 months but eventually, he recovered. In his life, he had to go through a total of 36 surgeries, but he never gave up. After four years of break, he came back with his band Aurthohin with a bang on the 17th of December 2021 in front of 35,000 people. Fans went crazy. People literally cried after seeing him performing again. Aurthohin became one of the most respected and popular bands in Bangladesh in 2022. He also released a single called 'Boyosh holo Amar'.

Sumon is an entrepreneur. He is the director of the Khaled Group of Companies. He is the director of over 20 well-known companies in Bangladesh. He has a wife named Nazia Salehin Khaled (1996-present), who sang with him on his tribute album for John Denver. (Methopoth,shopner daar and bohudure). He has two children named Ahnaf Salehin Khaled and Aurora Salehin Khaled. Both of his children sang with him on his album Boka Manushta' when they were only 9 and 3 years old..He also has three siblings. Shamsul Arefin Khaled(elder brother, has been mentioned in some interviews), Saiful Arefin Khaled (wrote half of the hit "odbhut shei chheleti while thinking of Bassbaba, as per Kishor all magazine, also wrote some other songs of Aurthohin, younger brother), Shahina Khaled (sister). He is also a landscape photographer.

Sumon was born and raised in Dhaka. He started learning bass by himself at the age of 14. He first auditioned for rock band Feelings in 1990 at the age of 16 and joined the band that year. He had played in 11 bands by the age of 19. In 1996, he joined Warfaze and later appeared in the band's 1998 hit album "অসামাজিক (Antisocial)" and left the band. In 1997, his first solo album "সুমন ও অর্থহীন (Sumon and Aurthohin)" got released while he was in Warfaze. Later, after leaving Warfaze, he formed Aurthohin.

Saidus Salehin Khaled Sumon (born 8 January 1973), popularly known by his nickname Bassbaba Sumon, is a Bangladeshi rock singer-songwriter, bass player, composer, music producer and founder of the Bangladeshi rock band Aurthohin. He is the band leader and spokesperson of Aurthohin since the beginning.

Sumon was born in 1973 in Dhaka, Bangladesh to Nazmul Ahsan Khaled and Shamsun Nahar Khaled. He attended Government Laboratory High School. After that, he completed his graduation from Dhaka City College. He started playing Hawaiian guitar at the age of 7. In an interview, Sumon stated that he was unable to buy a Spanish guitar, so he took his Hawaiian guitar to a shop and converted it into a Spanish guitar. He picked up his first Spanish guitar and formed his first band when he was 12. One day he was seeing an Iron Maiden show on TV. He was heavily inspired by Steve Harris. Since then he started playing the bass guitar. He was 14. He joined one of the most popular bands in Bangladesh 'Feelings' as a bassist when he was 16 where he played with the greatest rockstar of Bangladesh, Faruq Mahfuz Anam, commonly known as James. He did the first ever unaccompanied bass solo in Bangladesh when he was 17.https://www.guitarworld.com/features/bassbaba-sumon-soul-food