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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.
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.
It is the only song sung in the time of grief and on the occasion of marriage. In music it is sung with the traditional Afghan musical instruments rubab and mangai. Tappa has up to 16 different models of harmony and is sung with full orchestra. In hujrah it is sung with rubab and sitar.
Qais Essar is an Afghan-American musician based in Phoenix, Arizona. [1] A rabab player and songwriter, he is most noted for the song "The Crown Sleeps", from the 2017 animated film The Breadwinner, which won the Best Original Song prize at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018. [2]
Naim Popal (Pashto/Dari: نعیم پوپل) (born 18 June 1954) is an Afghan singer, songwriter, and composer. [1] In 2006, Popal returned to perform for a New Year concert in Afghanistan after 30 years in exile. [2] [3]
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.
[4] [2] In 2022, Elham was granted asylum in Australia, and currently lives in Melbourne, where she restarted her career, releasing the single "Malistani Song" that same year. [2] In 2023, Elham announced she would be taking part in a tour of Australia and New Zealand with fellow Afghan folk singer Hamid Sakhizada.
Three Songs for Benazir (Pashto: دری سندری د بینظیر لپاره) is an Academy Award nominated 2021 Afghan-American documentary short film by Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]