Dawood Sarkhosh (also spelled as Daud Sarkhosh) (

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: ) born 26 April 1971 in Urozgan,

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, is an ethnic Hazara singer, musician and poet.

Early life

Sarkhosh's inspiration was his older brother

Sarwar Sarkhosh Sarwar Sarkhosh ( Dari-Persian: ) was a singer and one of the Hazara nationalists in Afghanistan. He is the elder brother of Dawood Sarkhosh, a famous singer of the Hazara people. Early life Sarwar Sarkhosh was born in 1942, in Urozgan Pr ...

, a nationalist and legendary musician of his times who was killed during the civil war. Sarkhosh learned playing dambura and singing from him at the age of seventeen. After the death of his brother Sarkhosh migrated to

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first to

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city then moved to

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, Pakistan.

Career

Sarkhosh revived his skills by singing and composing songs inspired by a sense of

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and suffering in exile. He did not sing for commercial gain, but out of nostalgia and to convey the feelings about refugee life as experienced by refugees of Afghanistan dispersed throughout the world. They went to his concerts in their thousands, marking Sarkhosh's rise as a singer. It was in Quetta that he mastered the

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under the Pakistani composer Arbab Ali Khan.

Personal life

Dawood Sarkhosh is married to Kubra Nekzad Sarkhosh with three children; Saboor, Zulfiqar and Yasir. They now live in

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Vienna.

Discography

* 1998: Sarzamin-e-Man (My Homeland, prs, سرزمین من). * 2000: Parijo (Fairy, prs, پری جو). * 2004: Sapid-o-Siah (Black and White, prs, سپید و سیاه). * 2005: Khana-e-Gilli (Mud House, prs, خانه گلی). * 2007: Oslo Concert * 2008: Maryam (Maryam a girl's name, prs, مریم). * 2010: Bazi (Game/play, prs, بازی). * 2016: Jang-o-jonoon (War and madness, war and insanity, prs, جنگ و جنون) released by Sarkhosh Music inc Canada. * 2016: concert in the capital cities of Australia. * December 2017 concert in the capital cities of Canada * 2019: concert in Finland, Austria, Sweden. * 2019: Man o To, (Me and You, prs, من و تو). * 2019: concert in the capital cities of Australia and New Zealand.

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