About Dawood Sarkhosh
Born 1971. Dawood Sarkhosh is an Afghan singer and writer.
Dawood Sarkhosh (also spelled as Daud Sarkhosh) (Persian: ) is an ethnic Hazara singer and musician.
Early life Dawood Sarkhosh was born on 26 April 1971 in Urozgan (now Daykundi), Afghanistan. Sarkhosh's inspiration was his older brother Sarwar Sarkhosh, 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 that Sarkhosh migrated to Pakistan first to Peshawar city then moved to Quetta, Pakistan.
Career Sarkhosh revived his skills by singing and composing songs inspired by a sense of nationalism 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 harmonium under the Pakistani composer Arbab Ali Khan. 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.
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Who is Dawood Sarkhosh?
Afghan Hazara singer and musician
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Dawood Sarkhosh was born on 26 April 1971 in Uruzgan Province.
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Dawood Sarkhosh is a singer and writer.
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Dawood Sarkhosh is Afghan.
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