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In 1989, when he was about 20 years old, he turned to the Hazara folkloric and regional traditional music of dambura based on his artistic motives. [ better source needed ] References
Sher Muhammad Khan Hazara, a Sunni Hazara and chieftain of the Hazaras of Qala-e-Naw, Badghis, was a warlord who participated in the Sunni coalition that defended Herat in 1837. He was also one of those who defeated British forces around Qandahar and in the Maiwand desert during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842).
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Zahir Howaida, also spelled as Zahir Huwaida (Dari: ظاهر هویدا) (February 28, 1945 – 5 March 2012), was an Afghan Hazara musician. [1] [2] [3] He had been active since the 1960s and his popularity peaked with the hit songs "Kamar Bareek-e-Man" and "Shanidam Az Inja Safar Mikoni."
The Hazaras are an ethnic group who inhabit and originate from Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region, located in central parts of Afghanistan and generally scattered throughout Afghanistan.
Baila songs are played during parties and weddings in Sri Lanka, Goa, and Mangalore accompanied by dancing. Baila music, as a form of folk art, has been popular for centuries in Sri Lanka. During the early 1960s, it entered into Sri Lanka's mainstream culture, primarily through the work of police officer turned singer Wally Bastiansz .
Turkmun (Hazaragi: تورکمون) or Turkmani (تورکمنی) is a major tribe of the ethnic Hazara people, originating mainly from the Turkman valley in present-day Parwan province of Afghanistan. They have their own dialect of the Persian language known as Hazaragi .
Kadawunu Poronduwa (Sinhala: කඩවුනු පොරොන්දුව, "The Broken Promise") was the first film to be made in the Sinhala language; it is generally considered to have heralded the coming of Sinhala Cinema.