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The rubab is often used in Pashto music. Loba is very popular among the masses and are added within Tappas occasionally. This is a form of folk music in which a story is told. It requires 2 or more persons who reply to each other in a poetic form. The two sides are usually the lover and the beloved (the man and woman).
Classical Afghan music often features this instrument as a key component. Elsewhere it is known as the Kabuli rebab in contrast to the Seni rebab of India . [ 3 ] In appearance, the Kabuli rubab looks slightly different from the Indian rubab. [ 7 ]
Naghma (Dari: نغمه ښاپېرۍ; Pashto: نغمه ښاپېرۍ, born 1 January 1964) is an Afghan singer who started her career in the early 1980s. Similar to that of Sonny & Cher, she sang alongside Mangal during the 1980s and early 1990s. Naghma's songs are mostly in Dari and Pashto, the two major languages of Afghanistan. [2]
Farzana Naz (Pashto: فرزانه ناز) is an Afghan female singer born in Baghlan, Afghanistan. She sings mainly Pashto songs and made her first songs in Pakistan, due to the unstable situation in Afghanistan. Her mother is a Dari speaker while her father belongs to the Pashtun tribe.
Dr. Mohammad Sadiq Fitrat, born Sadiq Fitrat Habibi, (Pashto/Dari: صادق فطرت), known professionally as Nashenas (ناشناس), is one of the oldest surviving musicians from Afghanistan. His fame began in the late 1950s, and since then he has produced many albums consisting of Pashto, Persian , and Urdu songs.
The Rebab was heavily used, and continues to be used, in Arabic Bedouin music and is mentioned by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in his travelog Travels in Arabia: [5] "Of instruments they possess only the rababa , (a kind of guitar,) the ney , (a species of clarinet,) and the tambour , or tambourine ."
"Zaroori Tha" by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is the most-viewed Pakistani video on YouTube. It is also the first Pakistani video to reach 1 billion views. On the American video-sharing website YouTube, "Tajdar-e-Haram" sung by Atif Aslam became first Pakistani music video to cross 100 million views.
Mohammad Rafiq Shinwari (Pashto: محمد رفیق شینواری) was a singer and composer of Pashto music. Though he also tried his luck with Pashto poetry and wrote a few poems as well but it was his compositions for early Pashto movies that earned him a big name in this field.