Homayun Sakhi (sometimes spelled Homayoun) is an outstanding Afghan rubab player, now living in Fremont, California, the American city with the largest concentration of Afghans.…
Artist Profiles: Homayun Sakhi
Tag: Afghan music
Artist Profiles: Daud Khan
Born in Kabul (Afghanistan), Daud Khan learned how to play the rubab (an Afghan string instrument) with master Ustad Muhammad Umar. After becoming a skillful…
Artist Profiles: Aziz Herawi
Aziz Herawi is an expatriate Afghani currently living in California. He comes from a wealthy religious family in Herat. His father did not approve of…
Artist Profiles: Ustad Mohammad Omar
Ustad Mohammad Omar, one of Afghanistan’s finest rabab players, became the first Afghan musician to teach in the United States of America when he arrived…
Songs of Freedom
Kabul Workshop – Trigana (Tinder Records, 2002) Imperialism in all its guises and current world politicking have created a new diaspora with many of the…