Dawood Sarkhosh (also spelled as Daud Sarkhosh) (

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: ) is an ethnic Hazara singer and musician.

Early life

Dawood Sarkhosh was born on 26 April 1971 in

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(now

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. Sarkhosh's inspiration was his older brother

Sarwar Sarkhosh Sarwar Sarkhosh (Dari: ) was an ethnic Hazara renowned singer and a nationalist in Afghanistan. He was the older brother of Dawood Sarkhosh, a celebrated singer known for his contributions to Hazara music. Early life Sarwar Sarkhosh was bo ...

, a nationalist and legendary musician of his times who was killed during the civil war. Sarkhosh learned playing

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and singing from him at the age of seventeen. After that Sarkhosh migrated to

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first to

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city then moved to

Quetta Quetta is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. It is the ninth largest city in Pakistan, with an estimated population of over 1.6 million in 2024. It is situated in the south-west of the country, lying in a ...

, 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

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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

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composer Arbab Ali Khan.

Discography

* 1998: Sarzamin-e-Man (My Homeland, ). * 2000: Parijo (Fairy, ). * 2004: Sapid-o-Siah (Black and White, ). * 2005: Khana-e-Gilli (Mud House, ). * 2007: Oslo Concert * 2008: Maryam (Maryam a girl's name, ). * 2010: Bazi (Game/play, ). * 2016: Jang-o-jonoon (War and madness, war and insanity, ) 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, ). * 2019: concert in the capital cities of Australia and New Zealand.

References

External links

Dawood Sarkhosh's official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarkhosh, Dawood 1971 births Living people Hazara singers Dombra players People from Quetta Persian-language singers of Afghanistan People from Daykundi Province 20th-century Afghan male singers Austrian people of Hazara descent Afghan expatriate musicians in Pakistan

Early life

Career

Discography

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