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Farhad Darya (Pashto/Dari: فرهاد دریا; born 22 September 1962) is an Afghan singer, composer, music producer, and philanthropist.Active since the 1980s, Darya has been one of the most renowned [2] and influential Afghan pop musicians of the modern era, contributing to establishing new wave in Afghanistan [3] and blending urban and rural styles.
Salaam Afghanistan (Dari: سلام افغانستان; Pashto: سلام افغانستان; transl. Hello Afghanistan) is a 2003 studio album by Afghan musician Farhad Darya, his first album since his return to Afghanistan. It was released concurrently with a DVD video album recorded in Afghanistan.
The "Afghan National Anthem" [a] was the national anthem of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan used from 2006 to 2021. The lyrics were written by Abdul Bari Jahani, and the music was composed by German-Afghan composer Babrak Wassa . [1] It was replaced by "This Is the Home of the Brave" after the Taliban takeover in 2021.
The Afghan concept of music is closely associated with instruments, and thus unaccompanied religious singing is not considered music. Koran recitation is an important kind of unaccompanied religious performance, as is the ecstatic Zikr ritual of the Sufis which uses songs called na't, and the Shi'a solo and group singing styles like mursia, manqasat, nowheh and rowzeh.
Abdul Rahim Sārbān (عبدالرحیم ساربان) (1930 – April 2, 1993), better known as Sarban, was an Afghan singer, born in Kabul.. Sarban's music fused elements, rhythms and orchestration of the western musical traditions of Jazz and "Belle Chanson" with the prevalent Afghan musical tradition.
Aryana Sayeed (Pashto/Dari: آريانا سعيد, born 1985) is an Afghan pop singer and women rights activist. She sings mostly in Dari Persian but also has many songs in Pashto and some in Uzbek.
A few years after the Taliban were ousted in 2001, and with Afghanistan still in ruins, Ahmad Sarmast left his home in Melbourne, Australia, on a mission: to revive music in the country of his birth.
Fortress of Islam, Heart of Asia" [a] is an Afghan mujahideen battle song composed in 1919 by Ustad Qasim. It was adopted as the national anthem of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 2006.