Birth name Mohammad Dawood Name Dawood Sarkhosh Also known as Dawood Role Singer | Years active 1995 - present Genres Pop music, Folk music Website www.dawoodsarkhosh.com | |
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Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician, and composer Instruments Dambura, Keyboard, Harmonium and vocals Similar People Safdar Tawakoli, Farhad Darya, Ahmad Zahir, Aryana Sayeed, Mozhdah Jamalzadah | ||
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Dawood or Daud Sarkhosh (Dari: داود سرخوش; born 1971 in Daykundi province, Afghanistan) is an Afghanistani poet, singer, and musician. He belongs to the Hazara which is one of the third largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan.
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Early life
Sarkhosh's inspiration was his elder brother Sarwar Sarkhosh, a 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 Pakistan first to Peshawar city then moved to Quetta.
Career
Sarkhosh revived his skills by singing and composing songs inspired by a sense of nationalism and suffering in exile. He didn't 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.
Personal life
Sarkhosh is married to Kubra Nekzad Sarkhosh with three kids named; Saboor, Zulfiqar and Yasir. They live and work in Austria now.