Baily also notes that in 2011, a Kabul FM radio station was dedicated solely to the songs of Ahmad Zahir. Ahmad Zahir is a legend for Afghanistan, for all generations – Ahmad Sarmast ...

“Ahmad Zahir’s music is different. His songs and lyrics have significance,” she told RFERL’s Gandhara website. “These days, some of the songs [by new singers] are not listenable.” Hussam is a ...

Sporting a black quiff and sideburns, Ahmad Zahir sang of love and heartbreak in liberal 1970s Kabul – a city now plagued by war and suffering, but where the popularity of Afghanistan‘s ...

Ahmad Zahir sang instead about lost or unrequited love while performing in Kabul and the Afghan countryside, venturing into Presley’s terrain with a cover of the hit song “It’s Now or Never.” ...

"His songs will touch your heart no matter what mood you are in, happy or sad," says Hashmat, who goes by one name and is the manager of "Ahmad Zahir's Cottage", a colourful restaurant in downtown ...

Ahmad Zahir’s tomb was crushed by the Taliban in ... Here is the original video of Laili Jaan, a song that is still performed live at music evenings across Pakistan and Afghanistan.

They said I could not understand Afghanistan unless I heard Ahmad Zahir ... but through his songs, I lived those ambitions." Zahir became a star in the years just before Afghanistan descended ...

He is an Afghan Elvis impersonator, a man finding celebrity in Afghanistan by singing the songs of Ahmad Zahir, known as "the Afghan Elvis," the most popular singer in Afghan history. "I have a ...

He began singing in school and became known as the“Nightingale of Habibia High School” after singing the song Ay Bulbul Khush Elhan. Ahmad Zahir has two children from his three marriages ...

“His songs will touch your heart no matter what mood you are in, happy or sad,” says Hashmat, who is the manager of “Ahmad Zahir’s Cottage,” a colorful restaurant in downtown Kabul. The 26-year-old ...

Baily also notes that in 2011, a Kabul FM radio station was dedicated solely to the songs of Ahmad Zahir. Ahmad Zahir is a legend for Afghanistan, for all generations – Ahmad Sarmast “Ahmad ...