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Biography
A multi talented Artist, Dawood Sarkhosh was born in 1971 in
the province ofUrozgan in Central Afghanistan . He started to
compose poetry at the age of 9 and play Dumbura and to sing at
the age of 17. He studied the Hazaragi Danbura for a short
period with the help of his elder brother Sarwar Sarkhosh, and
studied Hamoonia/Accordion under the Pakistani composer the late
Arbab Ali Khan – from the province of Sind . At a time when
Afghan music had fallen into obscurity under the despotism of
fundamentalists.
Sarkhosh revived the art by creating songs inspired by a sense
of nationalism and suffering in exile. His songs were not
commercial, they were artistic reflection of the nostalgia and
the bitter taste of refugee life experienced by millions of
Afghan refugees throughout the world. They rush to his concerts
in their thousands to share their refugee culture with him and
enjoy it for a few hours. |
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