Ahmad Zahir
Ahmad Zahir (Dari/Pashto: ; 14 June 1946 – 14 June 1979) was an Afghan singer, songwriter and composer. Dubbed the "Elvis of Afghanistan", he is widely considered the all-time greatest singer of Afghanistan. The majority of his songs were sung ...
Ali Baba Khan
Ali Baba Khan ( ps, علي بابا خان; born Ali Ul Habib, 5 March 1993) is a Pakistani Pashtun Sufi singer in the Pashto music industry.
Early life and education
He was born on 5 March 1993 in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khan got hi ...
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Haroon Bacha
Haroon Bacha (Pashto: هارون باچا ) (born July 27, 1972) is a Pashtun musician who sings mostly in Pashto and, to a lesser extent, in Urdu. Since starting his professional career in 1992, he has released upwards of 50 albums.
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Irfan Khan Irfan Khan may refer to:
*Irrfan Khan
Irrfan Khan () (born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan; 7 January 196729 April 2020), also known simply as Irrfan, was an Indian actor who worked in Indian cinema as well as British and American films. Widely reg ...
Bakhtiar khattak
Bakhtiar Khattak ( ps, بختيار خټک) is a Pashto musician and singer from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He was born in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He also worked in AVT Khyber as a host. He is fascinated with Ghani Khan, Khan A ...
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Mangal
Mangal Rajgan (or Manghal, Mangla) is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
People with the given name
*Mangal (singer), Afghan singer
*Mangal Bagh (born 1973), Pakistani militant leader
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Farhad Darya
Farhad Darya (Pashto/Dari: ; born 22 September 1962) is an Afghan singer, composer and music producer who has written and composed songs in various languages.
Darya sings in various languages including mostly his native language of Persian/Dar ...
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G. M. Durrani
Ghulam Mustafa Durrani (1919 – 8 September 1988; sometimes known as G. M. Durrani) was an Indian radio drama artist, playback singer, actor and music director.
He was a radio drama artist and full-time singer of Lahore station, Delhi statio ...
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Zeek Afridi
Zeek Afridi ( ps, ; born Zahid Noor Afridi on 1 April 1979 in Peshawar) is a Pashtun singer from Pakistan.
Early life and career
Afridi belongs to the Afridi tribe of Tirah. He was raised and educated in Peshawar. He attended F.G. Boys Public ...
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Masood Akhtar
Syed Masood Akhtar (born 18 August 1946) is a former international cricketer who represented the American national side between 1979 and 1982. He was born in present-day India, and played first-class cricket in Pakistan before emigrating to the ...
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Munir Sarhadi
Munir Sarhadi (1931 – May 23, 1980) was a Pashtun-Pakistani instrumentalist, sarinda player and a folk singer. As a musician, he represented Pakistan in several countries. Munir, in 1978 became the recipient of Pride of Performance, a civil ...
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Hamayoon Khan
Hamayoon Khan ( ps, ھمايون خان) is a Pakistani popular Pashto musician and singer from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He is also featured in Coke Studio Season 5
Humayun has sung many songs for AVT Khyber
AVT Khyber or Khyb ...
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Gulzar Alam
Gulzar Alam (born 17 October 1959, in Peshawar) is a Pashto singer from Pakistan. He is a famous Pashto folk and Ghazal singer, musician, and composer with fan base from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and around the world. He completed his bachelor’s deg ...
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Wahid Khan
Wahid Khan was an Indian surbahar and sitar player. He was the son of Imdad Khan and belonged to the Imdadkhani gharana or ''Etawah gharana'' of classical music.
Early life
Wahid Khan was born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. He was still quite young ...
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Beltoon
Momin Khan Biltoon ( ps, مومن خان بیلتون; fa, بلتون), also known as his honorific title Ustad Beltoon, was an Afghan Pashtun singer from Kabul Province, Afghanistan. He was born in Chakari village of Khaki Jabbar District, Kabu ...
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Qamar Gula
Qamar Gula (; fa, قمر گل, ; 21 January 1952 – 9 December 2022) was an Afghan Canadian musician, who has been credited with being the second female Pashto language singer (after Rukhshana) to sing for the Radio Television Afghanistan. A v ...
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Gul Panra
Minhaz, known professionally as Gul Panra ( ps, ; sometimes spelled Gulpanra), is a Pakistani Pashto language, Pashto folk singer and Concert tour, touring artist. Her Concert, live concerts include United Kingdom and Afghanistan.
In 2015, she ...
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Nazia Iqbal
Nazia Iqbal ( ps, ) (born c.1984) is a Pashtun singer from Pakistan.Ubaidullah Jan
Obaidullah Jan Kandaharai ( ps, عبیدالله جان کندهاری, translit=Obāidullāh Jān Kāndāhāri ), or simply known as Obaidullah Jan, was a singer from Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was popular among the Pashtuns in southern Afghanist ...
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Ghazala Javed
Ghazala Javed ( ps, ; 1 January 1988 – 18 June 2012) was a Pashtun playback singer from Swat Valley, Pakistan. She began singing since 2004 and was "popular with young, progressive ethnic Pashtun people, Pashtuns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Her mus ...
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Khyal Muhammad
Ustad Khyal Muhammad (, born 1946) is a Pashtun singer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He has appeared regularly on television, usually singing ghazals and in movies.
Career
Khyal Mohammad belongs to the Afridi tribe of Pushtuns. He is origi ...
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Laila Khan
Laila Khan (born Reshma Patel; 1978 30 January 2011) was a Bollywood actress, best known for her role opposite Rajesh Khanna in the 2008 movie '' Wafa: A Deadly Love Story'' and she also starred in ''Faraar'' (2011). She was allegedly married ...
Naghma
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, birth_name = Shaperei (''Fairy'')
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Rezwan Munawar
Rezwan Munawar ( ps, رضوان منور, born January 1, 1964) is a Pashto folklore singer who started singing in 1985. He is ethnically Pashtun and belongs to the Safi tribe originally from Mazar valley of Nurgal district of Kunar. He was bo ...
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Nashenas
Dr. Mohammad Sadiq Fitrat, born Sadiq Fitrat Habibi, (Pashto/Dari: ), known professionally as Nashenas (Pashto/Dari: ), is one of the oldest surviving musicians from Afghanistan. His fame began in the late 1950s, and since then he has produced ma ...
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Raheem Shah
Rahim Shah ( ps, ) is a Pakistani pop singer, composer and music producer, predominantly working in Pashto music industry.
He sings primarily in Pashto, however he has also created songs in Urdu and Punjabi.
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Shafi Muhammad Shah
Shafi Muhammad Shah (or Shafi Mohammad) ( ur, شفیع محمد شاہ) PP (7 September 1949–17 November 2007) was a Pakistani film and television actor. Popularly known as ''Shah-jee'', he was born in Kandiaro, Naushahro Feroze District, Sin ...
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Rafiq Shinwari
Mohammad Rafiq Shinwari ( ps, 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 ear ...
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Sardar Ali Takkar
Sardar Ali Takkar ( ps, سردار علي ټکر, born 15 July 1956) is a Pakistani Pashto singer, who primarily sings the poetry of renowned Pashto poet Ghani Khan. Takkar is a graduate of the University of Engineering and Technology in Peshawa ...
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Shah Wali
Shah Wali Taranasaz ( fa, ), 1927 - 2007, was a “much admired” singer, songwriter and composer from Badakhshan, Afghanistan.
Life
Taranasaz sang more than 300 songs in Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historic ...
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Gul Zaman
According to the United States US Department of Defense, Department of Defense, it held more than two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006.
They had been captured and classified as enemy combatants in warfare following th ...
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Zarsanga
Zarsanga or Zar Sanga ( ps, زرڅانگه)(born 1946 in Lakki Marwat) is a Pashto singer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She began her singing career singing for Radio Peshawar and some television programmes, and later went on to perform i ...
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Qamar Gula
Qamar Gula (; fa, قمر گل, ; 21 January 1952 – 9 December 2022) was an Afghan Canadian musician, who has been credited with being the second female Pashto language singer (after Rukhshana) to sing for the Radio Television Afghanistan. A v ...
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Nazia Iqbal
Nazia Iqbal ( ps, ) (born c.1984) is a Pashtun singer from Pakistan.Zeb Bangash
Zebunisa Bangash (born 7 March 1982), better known as Zeb Bangash, is a Pakistani singer-songwriter from Lahore, Punjab. Her family originally comes from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Apart from her solo career, she was the member of music group Zeb and ...
Ismail and Junaid
Ismail and Junaid () is a Pashto musical band originating from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The band consists of two members - Ismail Khan, the lead vocalist, poet and composer and Junaid Javed, a guitarist, composer and supporting vocalist.
C ...
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Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
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Khumariyaan
Khumariyaan (, ) is a Pashto music band from Khyber Pakthunwka province of Pakistan that also plays other styles. The band has represented their Culture abroad in Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Kenya and elsewhere.
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See also
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List of Afghan singers
This is a list of notable Afghan singers that have entered the industry, currently working or have left the industry.
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*Ahmad Wali
*Ahmad Zahir
* Aryana Sayeed
* Abdul Rahim Sarban
*Amir Jan Sabori
*Awalmir
*Asad Badie
* Aziz Herawi
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Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...